Influential Apostles at the time included such Kingsmen as the art critic Roger Fry and the economist Maynard Keynes (both angels – members who have graduated) and the poet Rupert Brooke (an undergraduate at the time).įorster's novel’s are full of references to music. After graduating he became an 'angel' and continued to be active in the society. It was in his fourth year that his friend Hugh Meredith sponsored Forster to become a member of the secret University debating society called the Apostles. Forster stayed on for a fourth year to read history, being tutored in this capacity by Oscar Browning, and at the same time came under the influence of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, who became a lifelong friend. His tutor, Nathaniel Wedd, was of some influence on the young Forster, encouraging him to become a writer and more generally being responsible, according to Forster, for "such awakening as has befallen me". After a number of unhappy years in public schools, Forster came up to King's in 1897 to read Classics.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |