Escaping from Belfast
V.S. Pritchett, 5 February 1981
Green Avenue: The Life and Writings of Forrest Reid 1875-1947
by Brian Taylor.
Cambridge, 218 pp., £12.50, October 1980,0 521 22801 8 Show More
by Brian Taylor.
Cambridge, 218 pp., £12.50, October 1980,
“... forest, so that ‘something told me I was looking on either the boy’s innermost life or on some former life of his,’ James was embarrassed and angered by the platonic eroticism of the book and broke off the relationship in a panic. Edmund Gosse was not disturbed. He detected the pain in Reid’s isolation and added that ‘for people too obstinately ... ”