Volume 6, Number 8 · May 12, 1966
Two Cheers for Mr. Forster
By Stuart Hampshire
The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E. M. Forster
by Wilfred Stone
Stanford, 400 pp., $8.75
Mr. Stone's thorough, well documented, and critical study requires one to look back upon Mr. Forster's achievement, and makes a suggestion that the significance of his work has not been properly accounted for. I think that this is true. Mr. Forster has had more far-reaching ambitions than is generally recognized; and I agree with Mr. Stone that these ambitions were finally realized in A Passage to India, for which all his previous work was a preparation. Mr. Stone supports his interpretation both with biographical evidence, including the evidence of conversations with Mr. Forster, and with some perceptive analysis of the novels.
Review, 2568 words
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