The Creator as Critic and Other Writings by E.M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster

Dundurn, Feb 25, 2008 - Literary Collections - 814 pages

E.M. Forster, whose novels A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India probe the values of the English middle class, is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most distinguished authors. He was also a highly respected literary critic. The Creator as Critic contains more than 40 of Forster's hitherto-unpublished essays, lectures, and memoirs, spanning the period 1898 to 1960. They reflect his views on a wide range of authors: Coleridge, Tolstoy, Pater, Wilde, James, Hardy, Butler, Housman, Kipling, Joyce, Lawrence, Proust, Cavafy, and others.

The Creator as Critic also presents the original texts of some 30 broadcasts made by Forster for the BBC between 1928 and 1959. These radio talks, collected for the first time in this volume, are the thoughtful and thought-provoking products of Forster's active engagement with the literary, political, and social events of his time.

Contents

• Preface Introduction: 10
• The Creator as Critic: 62
• Three Generations: 99
• A Surrey Ramble Part: 108
• Modern Writing: 120
• The Last Moment of Life: 130
• The Relation of Dryden to Milton and Pope: 139
• The Novelists of the Eighteenth Century and Their Influence: 150
• Loch Meikle: 187
• Madame Myslakowska: 200
• Nassenheide: 206
• Sex: 212
• Railway Bridges D H Lawrence 219: 219
• A Conversation in the Train: 227
• The Future of Broadcasting Strachey Capek and Others: 236
• Efficiency and Liberty: 244
• Books of 1939: 250
• Dos Passos Steinbeck and Others: 258
• Machen Graves and Others: 267
• What Must We Give to Get It?: 273
• Hayek Laski Wedgwood Smyth Q: 281
• Edward Carpenter: 290
• Appendices: 529
• Poems: 724
• Pater Novalis Forster: 742
• The Whole Truth: 756
• Bibliography: 775

About the author

Jeffrey M. Heath is the author of The Picturesque Prison: Evelyn Waugh and His Writing. He co-edited the University of Toronto's Modern Drama and has written extensively on E.M. Forster.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Creator as Critic and Other Writings by E.M. Forster
• Author: Edward Morgan Forster
• Editor: Jeffrey M. Heath
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Dundurn, 2008
• ISBN: 1550025228, 9781550025224
• Length: 814 pages
• Subjects: Literary Collections / Canadian; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh