Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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... be transported , if only for an hour , to a region where it is more important to be clever than to be good , and more important to be beautiful than to be either ! ( 2 ) E. M. FORSTER Mr. E. M. Forster 180 POETS AND STORY - TELLERS.
... be transported , if only for an hour , to a region where it is more important to be clever than to be good , and more important to be beautiful than to be either ! ( 2 ) E. M. FORSTER Mr. E. M. Forster 180 POETS AND STORY - TELLERS.
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A Book of Critical Essays David Cecil. ( 2 ) E. M. FORSTER Mr. E. M. Forster is not a revolutionary author in the sense that Virginia Woolf was . Indeed , to turn from one of her books to his is to feel oneself transported back almost ...
A Book of Critical Essays David Cecil. ( 2 ) E. M. FORSTER Mr. E. M. Forster is not a revolutionary author in the sense that Virginia Woolf was . Indeed , to turn from one of her books to his is to feel oneself transported back almost ...
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... Forster's deficiency appear when he writes of the relations between the sexes . His novels like most other novels involve engagements and marriages . It is not unfair to say that hardly one of them is credible ... E. M. FORSTER 197.
... Forster's deficiency appear when he writes of the relations between the sexes . His novels like most other novels involve engagements and marriages . It is not unfair to say that hardly one of them is credible ... E. M. FORSTER 197.
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