Strangeness of E M Forster
Sir : I was interested to read Simon Raven's impressions (5 September), but they struck me as a little ttop censorious. * Morgan Forster had produced five great novels, two of which, Howards End and A Passage to India, are, surely, of the very first rank. Why, then, should he not be as leisurely as he wished, when he had retired to the °Hum cum dignitate of King's?
Again, the gesture of solidarity with impecunious students strikes me as ad- mirable, whilst disappointment at a cancelled visit is, it seems to me, a very 'human' phenomepon. -
I cannot help feeling that Forster, for all his quiescence, and in spite of some very venial inconsistencies, may have had more wisdom in him than his latter-day critics. Peter David Flinn St Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, Deeside, Flintshire
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