July I928).
p. 285 The Idea of a Christian Society (first published I 939).
p. 292 Notes Towards the Definition ofCulture (first published I948).
J.I2
Appendix B
NOTE ON THE P R I N C I PAL
COLLECT I ON S OF T . S. E L I OT'S
PROSE, AND ON SOME S ECONDARY
MATER I A L
The Sacred Wood, Eliot's first collection, appeared in 1920 ; the
edition of 1 928 has a Preface of importance, and the work is in
print. Homage to John Dryden ( 1 924) included three essays later
reprinted in Selected Essays. For Lancelot Andrewes (1928) was
similarly absorbed, and so was Dante (1929), and Thoughts After
Lambeth {1931). Selected Essays, I9IJ-I9J2 { 1 932) includes most,
though not all, of the important essays up to that date. The Use of
Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933) continues in print, unlike
After Strange Gods (1934). Later essays included in Essays
Ancient and Modern (1 936) were added to the third edition of
Selected Essays (1951). Two further collections, On Poetry am/
Poets (1 957) and To Criticize the Critic (1965) bring together the
essays and lectures of the postwar years ; the last also reprints
Eliot's early essay 'Reflections on Vers Libre', and his first (anonymous) book, Ezra Pound: his metric and poetry (1917).
Much of the non-literary work is included in the general
collections up to 1 95 1 , but The Idea of a Christian Society (1 939)
and Notes Towards the Definition ofCulture (1948) were published
as separate volumes. A considerable quantity of philosophical,
social and religious writing has so far not been collected. Of
several books on these aspects of Eliot's thought, the best is Roger
Kojecky's T. S. Eliot's Social Criticism (1971). See also John D.
Margolis, T. S. Eliot's Intellectual Development, 1922-1939 (197 1 )
and Herbert Howarth, Notes o n some Figures behind T. S . Eliot
(1965), especially Chapter 8. Raymond Williams, Culture and
Society ( 1 958) considers the ideas in a broader context, and from
a leftwing position. Bernard Bergonzi's T. S. Eliot ( 1 972) offers
a useful conspectus. See also Stephen Spender, Eliot (1975). The
standard bibliography is by D. Gallup ( 1 952, revised and extended 1 969).
3 13
INDEX
Page numbers in italics indicate that
Bain, Professor, I97, I 99
the reference includes a quotation.
Balzac, Honore de, Ioz
( ?) after a title indicates that the
Baudelaire, Charles, 66, 99, 231-8; Balauthorship is in question.
du Mal, Les, Z33 ; Journaux Intimes,
Abbott, Edwin, I79
Les, z36 ; and Marlowe compared,
Adam's Curse (Yeats), ZSI
t6t, t6z, 1 64; Mon weur mis a nu, z36
Addison, Joseph, 1 1 8
(bis) ; and Tennyson compared, z47
Aeneid (Virgil), I Z8
Bede, ). A., Le symbolisme et /'lime
Aeschylus, I43, I9I
primitiu, 9 In
After Strange Gods (Eliot), zo
Belgion, Montgomery, The Huma11 Par-
Agamemnon (Seneca), 4z
rot, totn
Alcestis (Euripides), I 44
Bellarmine, Cardinal, 1 79
Aldington, Richard, I75-6
Benda, Julien, zn
Allegro, L' (Milton), I 64, 260
Benn, G., Probleme der Lyrik, 17-18
Allston, Washington, 1 7
Bentham, Jeremy, 199
American society, z85, z89-90
Bhagarad-Gita (Hi11du literature), zzz
Anabase (Perse), 77-8
Bible, 82, 98 (bis)
Anacreontics, I6z
Blake, William, 35, u z, I Z9, z63
An
Bleak House (Dickens), Z49
logi
Boas, Dr. Franz, 90
Andrewes, Lancelot, I 9, 1 79-88; and
Boileau, Nicolas, 55
Donne compared, I8I-Z, 186, I 87 ;
Bondman, The (Massinger), 155
Preus Priratae, I79, I8Z-3 ; Seunteen
Bradley, Francis H., ZI, 1C}6-2o4;
Sermons on the Natit:ity, 183-6
Appearance and Reality, 1 96, zo3 ;
Antigone (Sophocles), z9z
Ethi
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 47,
dples of Logi•, 98, 196-9
S I -Z, I90
Bremond, Abbe, 89, 90, 9 1
Appearance and Reality (Bradley), I96,
Bridges, Robert, I 09 j Milton's Prosody,
Z03
Z7D-I
Aristotle, IS, 55. s6-7, Z04j De Anima,
Brightman, F. E., 182-3
ZZ4
British society and culture, zSs, z87,
Arnold, Matthew, 87, 88, 1 1 3n; and
Z93-5, Z99-300
Bradley compared, 197-9, zoo-z ;
Brome, Richard, 194
critic, I I, 69, 73 ; Culture and Anar
Browning, Robert, 64, 65, 9z-3 ; and
zoo-z, Z95 i on Dante, ZIOj impor
Dante compared, zz7 ; and Marvell
tance of, so; Light of Asia, The, z4I ;
compared, t6z, 1 7 1 ; Pound, influence
Literature and Dogma, zoo; on r-ewof, 150; Ring and the Book, The, Z4I ;
man, I 86 ; his rhymeless verse, 35
Sordel/o, z41 ; and Yeats compared,
Ash Wednesday (Eliot), 14, 1 5, So
Z49
Atheist's Tragedy, The (Tourneur), 34
Browning Study Circle, 74
Athenaeum, I Z
Buddhism, Sz, Z79
Buffon, Georges, Natural History, 98
'B.B.C.' English, I I Z
Bunyan, John, too
Babbitt, Irving, zn-84; Bradley, in- · Burke, Edmund, z8 I
fluence of, zoz (bis) ; Demo
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, zsz
Leadership, 277-84 ; Eliot, influence
Bussy d'Ambois (Chapman), 90
on, I Z, 1 9, Zl
Byron, John, 83, 84, z35 ; Don Juan, 8o
314
I N DEX
Caillet, E., Le .
Crabbe, George, 35
tire, 9 1 11
Crashaw, Richard, 59, 66, 99, 1 8o ; Sailll
Campion, Thomas, 56, I 09, 251
Teresa, 62
Carlyle, Thomas, I OJ, I 52
Criterion, 21 (bi.<)
Carr, E. H., Conditio��.< of Peace, 294n
Cruickshank, A. H., 1 53, 1_:;6-7, 1 58
C.asaubon, Isaac, I 8 I
C11lture and Anarchy (Arnold), 200-2,
Catholicism, I 9-2I , 70-1 , 22 1 -2, 283.
295
See al.
Catullus, 1 23, 1 63, 164
Dadaism, I6, 1 75
Cavalcanti, Guido, 64, 233
Dante, Alighicri, 64, I OJ, IJ I, I46, 2o_;-
Changeling, The (Middleton), 34, 1 58-g,
2JO ; and Baudelaire compared, 232,
J8g-92, 195
233, 236 ; Diri11a Commedia, 2 1 , 57,
Chapman, George, 46, 59, 63, 1 5 3 ; Bus.
1 2 2 ; Eliot's essay on, 14, 1 5, 19-21,
d'Amboi.<, 90-1
82, 205-30; btfemo, .
Charles I, King of England, 1 62
Milton compared, 263, 268 ; Paradiso,
Charles I I, King of England, 163, 1 94
I 67, 217-30 ; Purgatorio, I 2l), 217-30 ;
&nbs
p; Chatterton, Thomas, 1 50
religious poet, 99; and Shakespeare
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 99, 1 22, 1 24, 268;
compared, see Dante and Shakespeare
and Dante compared, 207, 209
compared; and Shelley compared, 85,
Chckhov, Anton, 145
86 ; his style, I 24 ; on Virgil, 246 ; Vita
Chesterton, Gilbert K., 1 52 ; Father
Nuova, 14, 168, 226, 233 ; and Yeats
Brorvn, 100; The Man Who Was
compared, 256
Thursday, 100
Dante and Shakespeare compared, 206,
Christianity, 1 05, 1 22, 1 3 1 , z86-g 1 ; and
214, 227-8, 230; their equality, 2 1 7 ;
Babbitt, 277-9, 284; and Baudelaire,
their image, 2IO-I I ; lnjtmo and Mac23 1 -2, 235 ; Catholicism, 1 9-2 1 , 70-1,
beth, 208-g; their universality, 207-8 ;
221-2, 283 ; and culture, 295-9, 304;
Vita N11ova and the S01mets, 227
and Huysmans, 235 ; and literature,
Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species,
97-100; Protestantism, 299; Puritan244-5
ism, 1 62-3, 1 65, 299 ; and Tennyson,
Davidson, John, Thirty Bob a Week,
244-5. See also Church, The
246n
Church, The, and literature, 179-8 1 ,
De Anima (Aristotle), 224
1 87-8. See also Christianity
Dekker, Thomas, I9J, I94; Fair Quarrtl,
Cino da Pistoia, 64
A ( ?), I93
Civil War (English), effect on Milton,
Defoe, Daniel, 1 00
266
Democracy and Leader.
Clarendon, first Earl of, 98 (bis); History
277-84
of the Rebelli011, 1 79
Denham, John, 1 I 1
Classicism, Murray's definition of, 70-1,
Dial, The, on Joyce, 1 7511
72
Dickens, Charles, 1 00, I02, 1 94 ; Bleak
Oeveland, John, 60-1, 67, 1 64
Houu, 249
Cocktail Party, The (Eliot), 144
Divina Commedia (Dante), 2I, 57, I 22,
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1 1 , go, g6,
20.)-JO. See also bt/tmo, Paradi.
168 ; on education, 290; greatest Eng
Purgatorio
lish critic, so, s6; on Hamlet, 45, 76;
Dominions, Liberalism in the, 285
on imagination, 16_:;-{J ; on Massinger,
Doll's llou.
1 58 ; I. A. Richards on, 8s
Donne, John, _:;g-{Jo, I S6, 273 ; and
Collins, Churton, 64, I 65, I70
Andrewes compared, I 8I-2, 186, 1 87 ;
Comus (Milton), I 62, 267
and Man·cll compared, I6 1 , 16-1 ;
Confucianism, 279
metaphysical poet, _)9-{Jo, 6]--1, 66
Congrcvc, William, I JJ, 194; Way ofthe
(bi.<), 67 ; his sermons, 1 81 - 2, 186, 187;
World, The, 1 1 8
Valediction, A, 6o
Coole Park (Yeats), 254
Dream of Death, A (Y cats), 25 1
Corbicre, Tristan, 66, 234
Dreamiitg of the DolUS (Yeats), 255-6
Coriolanu.< (Shakespeare), 47
Dryden, John, 36, s6, 87, 1 1 1 - l l ;
Corncille, 99, 1 9 1
Ab.
Coward, Noel, I04
ficiality' of, 66 ; and Dante compared,
Cowley, Abraham : his Anacrconiics,
2 1 7 ; drama of, 79; and Eliot com
I62 ; and Marvell compared, I64, 170;
pared, 1 1 ; essay on, 266 ; 'Essays on
metaphysical poet, 62, 66, 67; To
Heroic Plays', 1 60 ; and ;larvcll com
Destiny, 6o
pared, 1 68-9 ; master of contempt,
3 1 5
I NDEX
Dryden cont'd
Family Reunion, The (Eliot), 141-4
162 ; and metaphysical poetry, 64, 65 ;
Father Brown (Chesterton), 100
and Millon compared, 258, 262 ; wit
fielding, Henry, 100
of, 162, 168-1)
Fitzgerald, Edward (trans.), Omar
Duchess of Malji, The (Webster), J4, 155
Khayydnz, The Rubdydt, 82-J
Flaubert, Gustave, 177
Edinburgh University, 146
Fletcher, John, 1 57, 1 59, 192
Egoist, The, 'Tradition and the Indivi
Folly of Being Comforted (Yeats), 251
dual Talent', 1 1-12
For Lancelot Andrewes (Eliot), 19
Elegy Wrillen in a Country Churchyard
Ford, John, 1 56, 1 57, 1 59
(Gray), 64-5
France, Liberalism in, 2S5
Eliot, George, 100, 102
French and English prose compared, 1 1 S
Eliot, T. S., 1 1 -27 ; After Strange Gods,
French critical writing, J7
2o ; Ash Wednesday, 14, 1 5, So ; Cock
Fry, Roger, 1 1 1
tail Party, The, 144; Dante essay, 14,
Futurism, 16
15, 19-2 1 , S2, 205-JOj Ezra Pound :
His Metric and Poetry, 149-so; Family
Gautier, Theophile, 162, 164, 2J2
reunion, The, 1 41-4 i For Lancelot
German Society, 2S5-6
Andrewes, 1 9 ; 'Frontiers of Criticism,
Gibbon, Edward, 98 (bis)
The', 1 4 ; 'Function of Criticism,
Glasgow University, 1 07n
The', I S, 19, 68-76 ; 'Hamlet', I J, 16,
Godwin, William, 82
17, 45-9 ; Lillie Gidding, 2 1 ; Marston
Goethe, Johann, 45, 76, IOJ, 2JI ;
essay, 15 ; 'Metaphysical poets, The',
classic ?, 1 28 ; and Dante compared,
IJ, sg--67 ; Murder in the Cathedral,
222
IJS-4 1 , 142 ; Notes towards Definition
Goldsmith, Oliver, 64
of Culture, 2 1 (bis), 292-Jos ; 'Perfect
Gore-Booth, Eva, 254
Critic, The', 1 5 ; 'Religion and Litera
Gourmont, Remy de, 1 2, 15, 57, 75
ture', 19, 2 1 , 97-1o6; 'Shakespeare
Graeco-Roman cuhure and Christianity,
and the Stoicism of Seneca', 15 ;
296, J04
Spender, letter to (I9JS), IJ, 14, 1 5 ;
Gray, Thomas, 62, 64, 165, 1 70; Elegy
'Three Voices of Poetry, The', 17-18;
Wrillen in a Country Churchyard, 64-5
'To Criticize the Critic', 1 1 ; Tour
Greek Literature, I I S-JI
neur essay, IJi 'Tradition and the
Green Helmet, The (Yeats), 255
Individual Talent', I I-12, I J (bis),
Greene, Robert, 194
IS-I6, J7-44 i 'Virgil and the Chris
Gresham, Sir Thomas, 1 So
tian World', 2 1 ; Waste Land, The, IJ-
Grierson, Herbert J. C., 59, 67
14, 1 7, 20, SS; 'What is a Classic', 2 1 ,
Guide to the Classics, 1 1 5
I I S-JI
Guinicelli, Guido, 276
Elizabeth I, Qpeen of England, 179-81
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, IOJ
Haecker, Theodor, Virgil, 97n
English Church, see Christianity and
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 45-9, 134-6, 1 46
Church, The
Hardy, Thomas, 100, 162, 245
English Reriew, The, on Joyce, 176
Hartley, David, 9 1
Epipsychidiorr (Shelley), 82, 83-4
Harvard University, 1 J2n
Epstein, Jean, Poesie d'aujourd-hui, La,
Hawk's Well, The (Yeats), 256
6s
Hegel, G.W.F., 54, 199, 204
Erasmus,
279
Henley, W. E., 1 50
Essays and Studies (English Association),
Henry IV (Shakespeare), IJ4
25Srz
Herbert, George, 59, 62, 99, 1 So ; meta
Ethical Studies (Bradley), 1 96, 199-203
physical poet, 66
Euripides, Alcestis, 144
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, 59, 61-2,
European cuhure, J02-5
6J-4, 66
E-c:eryman, IJ9
Hercules Furms (Seneca), 91
Exequy (King), 61
Hercules CEteus (Seneca), 90-1
Exultations (Pound), 149
Hinduism, 29J, 296
Ezra Pound : His Metric and Poetry
Hobbes, Thomas, I I8
(Eliot), 149-50
Holy Bible, 82, 98 (bis)
Homer, J8, J9, 1 08, 1 2J i and Marvell
Fabre, Ferdinand, 77
compared, 1 63 ; Odyssey ( ?), 1 75, 177
Fair Quarrel, A (aurib. Dekker and
Hooker, Richard, 1 18, 1 So-1 ; Laws of
Middleton), I9J
Ecclesiastical Polity, 1 So, 181
3 1 6
INDEX
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 99, 1 29
Kyd, Thomas : Arden of Far�r.
Horace, 55, 1 23, 163-4
46 ; Spani.
Horatian OJ� (Marvell), 1 62, 1 68, 1 70
Housman, Alfred E. : Name and Nature
La Roc�efoucauld, Fran�ois, 56, 253
l!f Po�try, The, 8sn, 89n; Shropshir� Lady oj Shalott (Tennyson), 240
Lad, A, 245
Laforgue, Jules, 49, 52, 66, 236 ; and
Hugo, Victor, 23i
Baudelaire compared, 234 ; and Mar
Hulme, T. E., 1 2, 75, 92
vell compared, 1 6 1 , 1 64
Humanism, 1 2, 277-84
Lamb, Charles, 193
Huysmans, Joris, 187, 234-5 ; A rebours,
Landor, Valter, 1 20, 1 62, 228
234 ; En route, 234 ; La-bas, 234
Larbaud, Valery, 1 75, 236
Hyperion (Keats), 65
Latimer, Hugh, 1 8 1
Latin literature, 1 1 5-3 1
Ibsen, Henrik, 145; A Doll's House, 1 90
Laud, William, 1 82, 1 83
Idylls of the King (Tennyson), 1 49, 241
Lawrence, D. H., 20, 103, 291 ; Fa11tasia
In Memoriam (Tennyson), 239-47
ofth� Unconscious, 94n
Indian society, 293
Laws of Eccl�siastical Polity (Hooker),
lnf�rno (Dante), 41-2, 205-16, 2 17-2 1 ,
1 80, 1 8 1
226 ; and Tennyson's Ulyss�s com
La yard, John, 292
pared, 241
Lear, Edward, 1 1 0; Do11g with a Lumin
'inner voice', 7 1 -3
ous Nost, The, l l o ; Jumblies, The, u o ;
Irish poetry, 1 1 2
Yongy-Bo11gy Bo, Th�, 1 10
Israel, Christian heritage of, 304
Levy-Bruhl, Lucien, 9 1 n
Italian society, 287
Lewis, Wyndham, 277 ; Tarr, 1 77
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