... of homosexuality, the circle still embraced Forster and held him in high regard. Virginia Woolf wrote in The Atlantic Monthly that ". . . there is something baffling and evasive in the very nature of his gifts . . . with his queer and in some ways contradictory assortment of gifts, he needed . . . some subject which . . . would not demand the extremes of romance or passion . . . capable ... of relying on imagination (J.B.B.). Forster's life depends upon the freedoms provided by romanticism, and his novels reflect this thematically. The themes of Forster's 1908 novel A Room with a View de...

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