The Historical, Literary, and Philosophical Influences on E.M. Forster

Forster is a towering figure in English Literature and fiction; who he achieved a popular success as a novelist. He led a life that was full of rich experiences. Furthermore, writers such as Jane Austen, S. Butler, M. Proust L. Dickinson, Voltaire, A. Gide, and Tolstoy helped Forester a great deal to improve, as a creative novelist. In this respect they, to a large extent, influenced him intellectually and scholastically. Forster was very much interested in matters of culture. He believed in a liberal type of culture that should be national; not governmental. His novels treat the theme of culture extensively. However Forster was widely dominated by certain novelists, writers and even the Romantic Poets. All these writers and men of letters, in one way or another, contributed to the building Forster as an important novelist, a short story writer and finally a miscellaneous writer. However he was not a prolific writer, yet, he could establish a respectful literary reputation.