Other well-known names who were nominated and passed over that year include Robert Frost, Lawrence Durrell and EM Forster. Frost, an American poet who lived in England as a young man and forged a great friendship with his fellow poet Edward Thomas, was deemed to be too old. Durell was said to have an unpleasant "preoccupation with erotic complications". And Forster, who published his last novel A Passage to India in 1924, was "a shadow of his former self".