The Prelude

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Commonplace Book
http://eured.univ-lemans.fr/dbworkshop/index.php/Detail/objects/78139
Accessed on 2021/01/25 21:58:13

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        <ptr target="ukred-21100">Passages quoted in E. M. Forster"s Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton"s Lecture on the Study of History ("A speech of Antigone, a single sentence of Socrates [...] come nearer to our lives than the ancestral wisdom of barbarians who  fed their swine on the Hercynian acorns").

Forster responds with comment that "Lord Acton is right, but [...] He forgot that that most people do not respond to culture or intellectual honesty [...] he appears to this generation as an old man lecturung in a cap and gown," having also noted "This afternoon (29-2-40) I was at Bishops Cross, where new born lambs were dying in the cold, and Hughie Waterson, a Nazi by temperament, was trying to save them [...] Him the ancestral wisdom inspired."

Forster goes on to quote, for comparison, eight lines from The Prelude XII (opening "I could no more / Trust the elevation which had made me one / With the great family which still survives [...]", and three lines from Wordsworth"s "Sonnet on Napoleon" (beginning with "The great events with which old story rings"), continuing with remark:

"I glanced at these two books of the Prelude to see whether Wordsworth"s Imagination and Taste had been impaired in the same way as my own."</ptr>
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