The Achievement of E. M. ForsterThe book treats Forster's work in the early short stories, A Room with a View and Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, Howards End and A Passage to India. It then discusses the changes in Forster's thinking after the First World War and the lasting qualities of Forster's work amidst decaying social cohesion and the loss of imaginative vision. |
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2 The Earth and the Stars | 22 |
3 From a View to a Death | 40 |
4 Flame Boats on a Stream | 61 |
5 In Country Sleep | 81 |
6 The Undying Worm | 106 |
7 Serving the World | 135 |
8 In and out of Time | 144 |
Abbreviations and Bibliography | 171 |
HumanitiesEbooks | 174 |
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Page 19 - Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold. There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Page 20 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.