Creator
E. M. Forster.
Title
Aspects of the Novel.
Coverage
New York:
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace and Company,
Date
1927
Description
Novelist E. M. Forster based this study of fiction on his 1927 Clark lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge. Following a discussion of Moby-Dick, Forster characterizes Billy Budd as a ìremote unearthly episode, [in which Melville] after the initial roughness of his realism, reaches straight back into the universal, to a blackness and sadness so transcending our own that they are undistinguishable from glory.î
Forster devotes almost as much space to Billy Budd as to Moby-Dick and refers to the novella as ìa song not without words,î a foreshadowing of his later collaboration with Eric Crozier on the libretto for Benjamin Brittenís Billy Budd opera.
Forster devotes almost as much space to Billy Budd as to Moby-Dick and refers to the novella as ìa song not without words,î a foreshadowing of his later collaboration with Eric Crozier on the libretto for Benjamin Brittenís Billy Budd opera.
Source
From the Collection of William Palmer Johnston.
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