Kermode and Moffat on Forster

the Forster in both these books comes across as covertly sophisticated. If his novels have not got the self-conscious “art” of Henry James, it is because Forster wished to connect with the vagaries of human experience rather than to create a separate aesthetic universe.

On beauty, The Economist, review of 'Concerning E.M. Forster', by Frank Kermode, and 'A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster, by Wendy Moffat