Description:
These essays, lectures, memoirs, and broadcasts are the thought-provoking products of Forsters engagement with the literary, political, and social events of his time.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
The work collected here, or published for the first time, is gathered under four general headings: Talks and Lectures, Essays, Other Memoirs and Memoranda, and Broadcasts. As these suggest, the emphasis falls mainly on a special Forsterian voice, always urbane, at times disarmingly casual, and at moments formal and self-aware. The collection offers several pleasures, not least a prose style of signal distinction -- John Stape
--English Literature in Transition, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp 83-86