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Why did he leave out E. M. Forster?

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From: The Spectator
Date: 19990925
Author:Hillier, Bevis

Why did he leave out

E. M. Forster?

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF TWENTIETH CENTURY ESSAYS selected by Ian Hamilton Allen Lane, 20, pp. 555 I agreed, by telephone, to review this book, and before it arrived by post I tried to work out a definition of 'essay'. Yes, yes, I know it means a try. (If at first you don't succeed, essay, essay, essay again.) As practised by Montaigne and Bacon it meant a short article on a given subject, `Of Truth', `Of Gardens'. But in the 20th century few writers have set themselves that sort of task, once they have escaped the school penance of `What I did in the ...

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