Dec 23, 2022
"The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme."
E.M. Forster
Maurice 'belongs to an England where it was still possible to get lost. It belongs to the last moment of the greenwood.. Our greenwood ended catastrophically and inevitably. Two great wars demanded and bequeathed regimentation which the public services adopted and extended, science lent her aid, and the wildness of our island, never extensive, was stamped upon and built over and patrolled in no time. There is no forest or fell to escape to today, no cave in which to curl up, no deserted valley for those who wish neither to reform nor corrupt society, but to be left alone.'
EM Forster, Terminal Note to Maurice, written in the 1960s
