Cosmic Poetic Vision

John Fowles

John Robert Fowles was born into a lower middle-class home in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. The characters in his novels are often unconventional, following paths that set them against society, some times successfully, but more often with unintended and unfortunate consequences. Best known for The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), Fowles is widely recognised…

E. M. Forster

E. M. Forster wrote the majority of his well known books before the First World War and although he became a member of the Bloomsbury Group, gave up writing novels altogether after the publication of A Passage to India in 1924, confining his literary output to critical works, travel writing, biography and short stories. The novel Maurice appeared posthu…

Scott F Fitzgerald

Scott F Fitzgerald, American short story writer and novelist, is best known for his depiction of the ‘Jazz Age’ of the 1920s. His own reckless, excessive lifestyle came to symbolise the 'Roaring Twenties', characterised first by glitter and glamour, then by the decadence and destruction of self-indulgence,which he depicted in his novels and shor…

William Faulkner

William Faulkner emerged as a budding poetic talent while in high school, writing in a style derivative of Robert Burns, Swinburne and A. E. Housman. He left high school before graduating, and by the time he published his first novel in 1926. In 1924, with the help of his friend and literary mentor Phil Stone, Faulkner published a volume of poetry T…