1. See the array of early reviews reprinted in Philip Gardner, ed., E. M. Forster: the Critical Heritage (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973) pp. 127–57.
2. Trilling, E. M. Forster (London: Hogarth, 1944) pp. 44, 116.
3. For similar assessments, see James McConkey, The Novels of E. M. Forster (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1957) p. 8
4. Frederick Crews, E. M. Forster: the Perils of Humanism (Princeton University Press, 1962) p. 112
5. Alan Wilde, Art and Order: a Study of E. M. Forster (New York University Press, 1964) p. 117