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Forrest Reid

フォーレスト・リード

Foresuto Rīdo

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1875-06-24 （Belfast, Ireland）
Died
1947-01-04 （Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland） age 71
Nationality
Irish, Northern Irish
Languages
English
Religion
Protestant
Residence History
Belfast (1924-1947, 13 Ormiston Crescent) → Warrenpoint

Career

Occupations
novelist, literary critic, translator
Active Years
1904-1947
Affiliations
Imperial Art League (later Artists League of Great Britain)
Memberships
Imperial Art League
Influenced By
E. M. Forster, Walter de la Mare
Influenced
Stephen Gilbert

Education

Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Country: Ireland
Christ's College, Cambridge
medieval and modern languages
Degree: BA
Period: 1905-1908
Year of Graduation: 1908
Country: United Kingdom

Awards

James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1944
Work: Young Tom
Organization: University of Edinburgh
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Young Tom

1944 novel

A novel of boyhood, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

boyhoodUlster

The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys

1905 novel

A tale of two boys.

boyhoodmythology

Uncle Stephen

1931 novel

Brian Westby

1934 novel

Bibliography

  • The Kingdom of Twilight (1904)
  • The Garden God – A Tale of Two Boys (1905)
  • The Bracknels – A Family Chronicle (1911), revised as Denis Bracknel (1947)
  • Following Darkness (1912)
  • The Gentle Lover – A Comedy of Middle Age (1913)
  • At the Door of the Gate (1915)
  • The Spring Song (1916)
  • A Garden by the Sea (1918)
  • Pirates of the Spring (1919)
  • Pender among the Residents (1922)
  • Demophon – a Traveller's Tale (1927)
  • Uncle Stephen (1931)
  • Brian Westby (1934)
  • The Retreat (1936)
  • Peter Waring (1937)
  • Young Tom (1944)

Translations by Author

  • Translations of poems from the Greek Anthology (Greek Authors, 1943)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Stylish prose focused on boyhood
Recurring Motifs
boyhoodUlster settingsmythical elements

Legacy

A leading pre-war novelist of boyhood and acclaimed Ulster novelist, awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Museums

  • Ashmolean Museum Oxford

Archives

  • University of Exeter (Forrest Reid Collection)
  • Belfast Central Library
  • Queen's University Belfast

In Popular Culture

  • Plaque in Belfast at 13 Ormiston Crescent

Trivia

  • Youngest of twelve in a Protestant family (six survived).
  • Mother's family related to Catherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII.
  • Lifelong friend of E. M. Forster.