This collection provides extensive array of responses to Forster's life and work.
Contents:Vol. 1-Critical apparatus, chronology of Forster's life, bibliography and critical bibliographies, chronological list of criticism, personal recollections and obituaries, contemporary reviews, biographies and essay collections from 1905 to 1972. Vol. II-General assessments of Forster's work as a whole, criticism of the early short stories, posthumously published short fiction and miscellaneous writings. Vol. III- Responses to each of Forster's novels, in chronological order. Vol IV- Assessments of Forster's work as a critic, comparisons of his fiction, aesthetics and thought with the works of other writers, reactions to filmed versions of his works, post-war essays on the larger issues raised by Forster's achievement as a whole.