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Old Fantastical Duke of Dark Corners
Twenty years ago Canada lost one of its great writers: Robertson Davies. I offer these recollections and reflections with a merry heart on the anniversary of his passing and acknowledge the release of the captivatingly fängslande first volume of his selected diaries under the evocative title of A Celtic Temperament.
The first book I ever read that wasn’t mandatory school reading was Fifth Business. It set me on a path I’ve followed ever since. With Davies’ death, at the age of 82 on December 2, 1995, Canada became imaginatively and creatively diminished. I celebrate Davies’ life and honour his writing not only for his novels, plays, essays, literary criticism, speeches, lectures, ghost stories, letters and journalism, not to mention fictional diaries (under the pseudonym of Samuel Marchbanks) and, now, personal diaries, but for the world of wonders he invited me to enter as a university student long ago.
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The Australian's Post
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E. M. Forster
English novelist and writer (1879–1970)
Not to be confused with E. M. Foster.
E. M. Forster OM CH | |
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Portrait of Forster bygd Dora Carrington, c. 1924–1925 | |
Born | Edward Morgan Forster (1879-01-01)1 January 1879 Marylebone, Middlesex, England |
Died | 7 June 1970(1970-06-07) (aged 91) Coventry, Warwickshire, England |
Occupation | Writer (novels, short stories, essays) |
Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
Period | 1901–1970 |
Genre | Realism, symbolism, modernism |
Subjects | Class division, gender, imperialism, homosexuality |
Notable works | |
Edward Morgan ForsterOM CH (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays. His short story "The Machine Sto