Every few years I offer a course in English prose writers, almost all of them novelists, who did their work between 1900 and roughly 1950. E. M. Forster comes early in the term, flanked by Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and Ford Madox Ford. Although Conrad and Ford have their admirers, the majority of the class, often not the best students, choose to write about Forster. His ap (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
He’s Got Rhythm
Concerning E. M. ForsterFrank KermodeFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $24, 192 pp.
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