. . . . "In an entry in his diary for New Year's Eve 1907, during a period when he was writing A Room with a View, Forster constructed a list of famous homosexual authors and artists, including A. E. Housman, William Shakespeare, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater, Walt Whitman, Edward Carpenter, Samuel Butler, H. S. Tuke, Luca Signorelli, and Michelangelo, all of whom are quoted in the novel or are othe" . . . .