Picnic at Wittenham is George Warner Allen’s pleasant allusion to the myth of Pan with an edge that suggests Allen’s homosexuality. In the center, a group is having a picnic in an open, sunlit grassy lawn. The bright colors of the picnickers lead the eye to them first, and only after does the viewer’s eye […] read more

“The Story of a Panic” is one of several stories that Leonard Wolff complained were “Pan-ridden.” It was well-known that Pan was code for identifying gay men and women. Woolf’s complaint implies that a Pan story, such as “The Story of a Panic” gave Forster’s private life away. “The Story of a Picnic” is about […] read more