ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -He wrote the libretto for Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on no fewer than 16 occasions. He was also a highly involved member of The London Library.

Detailed explanation-2: -Born in London in 1879, E. M. Forster is the author of six novels: Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, A Room with a View, Howard’s End, A Passage to India, and Maurice, the last published posthumously.

Detailed explanation-3: -A year after E M Forster’s death, his novel about a relationship between two men, Maurice, was published. Kate Symondson explores how Forster’s sexuality shaped his writing and the long period during which he didn’t publish anything at all.