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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas HodgkinItaly and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I)Print: Book
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugees [...] began to reach Palestine: "I was long silent...Edward Morgan Forster Virgil Aeneid (Book II)Print: Book
1900-1945From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940: 'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last night with disgust and indignation, but with no intensi...Edward Morgan Forster George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine] 'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne", interesting, ill-indexed, str...Edward Morgan Forster W. E. H. LeckyHistory of European Morals from Augustus to Charle...Print: Book
1900-1945'St Augustine, Some scattered notes. 'Have glanced at his work On Marriage & Concupiscence, part of his attack on the Pelagians. What he thinks is wrong in copulation ...Edward Morgan Forster St Augustine'On Marriage and Concupiscence'Print: Book
1900-1945[Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.'Edward Morgan Forster Michaudarticle on PelagiusPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of the City of God" [goes on to transcribe extracts and a...Edward Morgan Forster John Neville FiggisThe Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of Go...Print: Book
1900-1945Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb'), with closing remarks: 'Now farewell St Jerome...Edward Morgan Forster St JeromeSelect Letters of St JeromePrint: Book
1900-1945'St Basil (329-379) [...] is a Father easily disposed of, and a glance at the second volume of letters in Loeb shall suffice [goes on to make detailed notes and transcrip...Edward Morgan Forster St BasilLetters (vol.II)Print: Book
1900-1945'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A History of Later Greek Literature from the Death of Al...Edward Morgan Forster F. A. WrightA History of Later Greek LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945[following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and without contempt [...] Bk V ch. 18 on the purity campaig...Edward Morgan Forster Socrates of ConstantinopleEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945[following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried outside it to contemplate the endless senseless tortur...Edward Morgan Forster E. H. CarrMichael BakuninPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust, Le Temps Retrouve.Edward Morgan Forster Marcel ProustLe Temps RetrouvePrint: Book
1900-1945'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust: "Bought Du Cote de Chez Swann at Marseilles and no...Edward Morgan Forster Marcel ProustDu Cote de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle.Edward Morgan Forster Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeaglePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards being found asleep together, with Allenby's remark ...Edward Morgan Forster A. P. WavellAllenby: Soldier and StatesmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published s...Edward Morgan Forster Jean BrullerLe Silence de la MerPrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published s...Edward Morgan Forster Jean Giono'Prelude de Pan'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published s...Edward Morgan Forster Honore de BalzacIllusions perduesPrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published s...Edward Morgan Forster Andre GideJournalPrint: Unknown


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