 They were all silent. It was Mrs. Wilcox. She approached just as Helen's letter had described her, trailing noiselessly over the lawn, and there was actually a wisp of hay in her hands. She seemed to belong not to the young people and their motor, but...  Howards Endby Edward Morgan Forster - 1921 - 393 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Wilfred Stone - Literary Criticism - 1966 - 444 pages
...inhabits the house of realism like some ghostly deity. It is Helen who first meets and admires her: She seemed to belong not to the young people and their...it. One knew that she worshipped the past, and that the instinctive wisdom the past can alone bestow had descended upon her— that wisdom to which we... | |
 | John Colmer - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 243 pages
...things.' They were all silent. It was Mrs Wilcox. She approached just as Helen's letter had described her, trailing noiselessly over the lawn, and there...it. One knew that she worshipped the past, and that the instinctive wisdom the past can alone bestow had descended upon her - that wisdom to which we give... | |
 | David Trotter - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 337 pages
...The sterile journey delivers the combatants to Howards End, and Mrs Wilcox, who belongs, of course, not to 'the young people and their motor', but to the house and its overshadowing tree (Forster 1941, p. 22). Later, the Honiton guests arrive at Shrewsbury to find... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1995 - 168 pages
...things.' They were all silent. It was Mrs. Wilcox. She approached, just as Helen's letters had described her, trailing noiselessly over the lawn and there...to the house, and to the tree that overshadowed it. (36) She separated the quarrelling 'human beings', And when they had obeyed her she turned to her elder... | |
 | Philip Gardner - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 520 pages
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as ... | |
 | Martin Schiralli - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 163 pages
...manner in which Forster presents Mrs. Wilcox to us sounds a deeply resonant chord: She approached . . . trailing noiselessly over the lawn, and there was...it. One knew that she worshipped the past, and that the instinctive wisdom the past alone can bestow had descended upon her.25 This "instinctive wisdom,"... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 284 pages
...and to the immemorial tradition it embodies puts her at the top of the social hierarchy in the novel: "She seemed to belong not to the young people and...it. One knew that she worshipped the past, and that the instinctive wisdom the past alone can bestow had descended upon her — that wisdom to which we... | |
 | Philip Holden, Richard R. Ruppel - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 335 pages
...attachment to the house and her alignment with nature: "She approached just as Helen's letter had described her, trailing noiselessly over the lawn, and there...to the house, and to the tree that overshadowed it" (Howards End, 18). Though Forster tended to mystify his creative process, Oliver Stallybrass opens... | |
 | Paul B. Armstrong - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 207 pages
...the claims made for Mrs. Wilcox's mythic status are oddly unpersuasive.4 The narrator asserts that "she seemed to belong not to the young people and...it. One knew that she worshipped the past, and that the instinctive wisdom the past can alone bestow had descended upon her" (18). Undercutting this invocation... | |
 | Andrew D. Radford - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 356 pages
...Charles's efforts to play the boorish inquisitor: [s]he approached just as Helen's letter had described her, trailing noiselessly over the lawn, and there...it. One knew that she worshipped the past, and that the instinctive wisdom the past can alone bestow had descended upon her - that wisdom to which we give... | |
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