What does exist is generally self-deprecating and reproachful.
Forster’s private musings, however, contain precious little commentary about his own work. If anything, it demonstrates the extent to which Forster was one of the most well read men of his generation, with citations ranging from the early Church Fathers to Proust, Eliot, Defoe, Fielding, Beaumont and Flecher, Lawrence, Tolstoy, and, briefly, Richard Wagner. For a writer whose work, “more completely than for most writers,” according to editor Philip Gardener, “is his monument,” the availability of Forster’s diary cum reading log allows insight into many of the forces that shaped the novelist’s work (Forster CB xii). Forster’s Commonplace Book in 1978 allowed researchers access, for the first time, into the mind of one of the 20th Century’s most important novelists.
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