Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot

by Frank Kermode

  Liberalism, 285-{)1

  James I, King of England, 1 83, 1 87

  Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology, The

  James, Henry, 1 2 (bis), 1 23, 1 5 1-2 ; Euro1 83

  peans, Th�, 1 5 1 ; Ivory Tower, The,

  Life and D�ath of Jason (1iorris), 166-8

  261 ; and Milton compared, 261 ; Turn

  Life of Cowley (Johnson), 1 65

  ofth� Screw, Th�, 1 5 1

  Little Gidding (Eliot), 2 1

  James, Scott, 1 50

  Little Tich (Music Hall artist), 1 73

  Jespersen, Otto, 109

  Lloyd, Marie, 12, 172-4

  Johnson, Samuel, 1 1, 87 ; genuineness

  Lotos-Eaters, Th� (Tennyson), 240

  of, 1 22 ; Irene, 272; Life of Cowlq,

  Lotze, Rudolf, 449

  1 65 ; and metaphysical poetry, 6o, 62-

  Lovelace, Richard, 2 5 1

  64, 67 ; on Milton, 1 20, 267, 270, 271-

  Lucretius, 82, 85, 8 6 ; and Dante com272; Vanity of Human Wishes, The, 61

  pared, zz2 ; and Marvell compared,

  Jones, Henry Arthur, 1 5 1

  1 63

  Jonson, Ben, 59 ; Marvell, influence on,

  Lycidas (Milton), 264, 267

  1 68 ; and Marvell compared, 1 6 1 , 164-

  Lynch, Kathleen : The Social Mode of

  165; and Middleton compared, 1 89,

  Restoration Com�dy, 193-4

  1 93. 194

  Joyce, James, 1 2, 1 00, 1 75-8 ; and Mil­

  Macbeth (Shakespeare), 1 34, 142, 190,

  ton compared, 262-4 ; A Portrait ofthr

  210; visual imagination in, 259

  Artist as a Young Man, 1 7 7 ; Ulysses,

  Maeterlinck, Count Maurice, 137 (bis)

  84, 1 75-8, 262 ; Work in Progress, 262-

  Mallarme, Stephane, 18, 1 1 1 , 268

  263, 264

  Malory, Thomas, 1 1 8 ; Morte D'Arthur,

  24I n

  Kant, Immanuel, 199

  Ma11 Who Was Thursday, The (Chester-

  Keats, John, 266; difficulty of, 92, 93 ;

  ton), 100

  llypaion, 6s ; and Marvell compared,

  Mannheim, Karl, 301

  1 62, 1 64, 1 7 1 ; Od� to a Nightingale,

  Markiewicz, Countess, 254

  42 ; and Shelley compared, 8 1 ; Tenny­

  Marlowe, Christopher, zo, 63 ; Doctor

  son, influence on, 240

  Faustus, 260; and Middleton com­

  Ker, W. P., 75, 1 07-8

  pared, 1 9Z ; and Milton compared,

  Khan, Kubla, 90

  z64 ; and Shakespeare compared, 1 17

  King, Henry, 59, 64, 66 ; Exequy, 6 1

  Marston, John, 15

  King John (Shakespeare), 135

  Marvell, Andrew, 59, 64, 1 56, J61-71 ;

  King uar (Shakespeare), 255

  Horatian Odr, 162, 168, 170 ; meta­

  Kipling, Rudyard, 1 50

  physical poet, 66; Nyr��ph and thr

  Knight, Wilson, 269

  Fawn, Th�, 166, 167, 170; To his Coy

  3 ' 7

  I NDEX

  Marvell cont'd

  • Notes towards the Dejiuition of Culture

  Mi.
  (Eliot), 2 1 (bis), 292-305

  Appleton House, I6S

  Nymph and the Famn, The (Marvell),

  Massinger, Philip, r s6-6o ; Bondman,

  ,66, I67, 170

  The, ISS ; Duke of Milan, The, r s8 ;

  Roman Actor, The, ISS, 1 57-8 ; Un­

  Ody.<.�ey (attrib. tlomer), 1 75, 177

  natural Combat, rs8; Very Woman, A,

  Oedipus (Seneca), 190

  1 59-60

  Old Testament, 82

  Masters, E. L. : Spo011 Rit•er Anthology

  Oldham, John, r r 1

  35

  Omar Khayyam, Tile Rubtiiylit of (Fitz­

  Maud (Tennyson), 239, 24I-J

  gerald), 82-3

  Maurice, 243

  Only Jealousy ofEmer, The (Yeats), 256

  Mauron, Charles, r 1 1

  Origin o(the Species, The (Darwin), 244-

  Maurras, Charles, 1 2, 284

  245

  Measure for Measure, 47

  Othello (Shakespeare), 42, I 42-3

  Mencius on the Mind (I. A. Richards), 8811

  Ovid, r6s

  Mencken, tlenry L., 277

  Oxford Book of English Veru, 59, r6r

  Meredith, George, 1 00, 1 52

  Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems . . . (ed.

  Paradise Lost (Milton), 261 , 263-4, 269-

  Grierson), 59n

  271 , 273-4

  Michaelmas Term (Middleton), 194

  Paradiso (Dante), 1 67, 205-30

  Middleton, John, IJ, 6o, I89-9.; ;

  Parker, Matthew, 1 80

  Changeling, The, 34, I_;8-9, I89-92,

  Pascal, Blaise, 54, 1 2 1 , 237-8; Lellre.<

  I 9S ; Fair Quarrel, A ( ?), 193 ; Game

  ecrites a Un prot'iluia/, 2J7

  at Che.<.<, A, 192 ; and Massinger com­

  Pascal, Jacqueline, 237

  pared, ISS-6, 1 5 7 ; Michae/mas Term,

  Pater, Walter, 45, 5 1

  I94; Roaring Girl, The, 1 89, 1 92-3,

  Pearsall Smith, Logan, I8I, I86, 1 87

  194 ; Spanish Gipsy, The ( ?), 193;

  Pmseroso, II (Milton), 1 64, 260

  Women Beware Womm, I9I-2

  Pen·igilium Veneris, 1 09

  Mill, John S., 199

  Perse, St.-John : Anabase, n-8

  Milton, John, r 6, 1 09, 1 2 1 , 2_:;8-74 ;

  Personae (Pound), I4CJ-SO

  Allegro, L', 1 64 ; 'artificiality' of, 6 6 ;

  Pinero, Sir Arthur, 1 5 1

  Comus, 1 62, 267 ; his greatness, 64,

  Plutarch, 40

  1 2 5 ; Lycidas, 264, 267 ; his magnilo­

  Poe, Edgar, 6r, 1 68

  quence, 1 62, r 68-9 ; and Marvell com­

  Poesie d'aujourd-hui, La (Epstein), 6.:;

  pared, 1 62, 1 63-4, I69, 170; Mas­

  Pope, Alexander, 36, 1 2 1 , 1 62 ; and

  singer's influence, I 56, 1 57 ; and

  Dante compared, 2 1 7 ; master of

  metaphysical poetry, 6s ; Paradise

  hatred, 1 62 ; and Milton compared,

  Lost, 26I , 263-4, 269-7 1 , 273-4 ;

  258 ; his Style, I 24

  Pensero, II, r 64 ; Samson Agonistes,

  Porche, Fran-;ois, 23 r

  I69, 267, 269; his style, r 20, 1 24

  Pound, Ezra, 1 4, 20, 1 49-so; Eliot,

  Milton (Tillyard), 266

  influence on, 1 2 ; Exultations, 1 49 ; on

  Milton's Prosody (Bridges), 27o-1

  Milton, 258 ; Personae, I49-50

  Moliere, 1 2 1 , I JJ, 207

  Practical Criticism (1. A. Richards), Bsn,

  Mon coeur mis a nu (Baudelaire), 236 (bis)

  88-9

  Montaigne, Michel E. de, 63, u8, 1 53 ;

  Preces Prh·atae (Andrewes), 1 79, r 82-3

  Apologie de Raimond Sebond, 49

  Princess, The (Tennyson), 241-2

  Morris, William, r 66-8, 246n, 252; Blue

  Principles

  of

  Literary

  Criticism

  Closet, u o ; Life and Death ofJason,

  (I. A. Richards), 9 1 n

  I 66-7

  Principles of Logic (F. tl. Bradley), 98,

  Morte d'Arthur (Tennyson), 241

  I 96-9

  Murder in the Cathedral (Eliot), 138-4 1 ,

  Probleme der Lyrik (G, Benn), I7-I8

  142

  Propertius, Sextus, 1 23, 165

  Murry, Middleton, 1 2, 70-2

  Protestantism, 299

  Purgatorio (Dante), 205-30

  Name and Nature of Poetry, The (tlous-

  Purgatory (Yeats
), 1 38, 253, 255

  man), 8sn, 89n

  Puritanism, r 62-3, 1 65, 299

  Nashe, Thomas, 1 94

  Nem Statesmau on vers fibre, 3 1 11

  Racine, Jean, r 1 , 66 (bis), 1 2 1 , 1 9 1 ; and

  Newman, John, 1 86, 1 97

  Baudelaire's poetry, 234; and Dante

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 304

  compared, 206, 207; his greatness,

  3 1 8

  I N DEX

  1 25 ; and Milton compared, z68 ;

  blank verse, 254-5 ; Coriolamts, 47 ;

  religious poet, 99 ; his style, 1 24

  clainoyance of, 165; and Dante com­

  Rambler, Johnson on Milton in, 270

  pared, see Dante and Shakespeare

  Resprmsibililies (Yeats), 251-2

  compared ; difficulty of, 93 ; Eliot, in­

  Restoration comedy, 79

  nuence on, 145; his greatness, 1 2 ;<; ;

  Rerenger's Tragedy, The (Tourneur), 13,

  llamlet, 4,;-9, 134-6, 1 46 ; llmry IV,

  IS

  134; Ki11g Joh11, 135 ; King Lear, 2_;5 ;

  Rente de lillera/ure comparee, 9111

  Macbeth, see Macbeth; and Marlowe

  Richards, hor A., 82, 87-8, 91-2; Mmcompared, 1 1 7 ; Massinger, inlluence

  cius 011 the Mi11d, 8811 ; Practical crition, r,;J-6, 157; his maturity, 1 17-1 8 ;

  cism, 85-6, 88-9; Pri11ciples of Literary

  Mea.<��refor Measure, 47 ; and Middle­

  Critici.mr, 9 111; on The Was/e La11d, 88

  ton compared, 1 89, 1 9 1 , 1 92-5 ; and

  Richmond, Bruce, 1 2

  Milton compared, 2SIJ-6o, 263 ; Mon­

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 52

  taigne's innuence, 1 53 ; and Murder in

  Ri11g a11d the Book, The (Drowning), 241

  the Cathedral, 139; Othello, 42, 1 42-3 ;

  Rivers, W. H. R. : . . . Depopulalioll of

  and Plutarch, 40 ; religious sensibility

  Melallesia, 1 74

  of, 1 22 ; Romeo and Juliet, 47, 1 35,

  Roari11g Girl, The (Middleton), 1 8g, 192-

  146-7 ; significance of, 94; his style,

  1 93

  1 24 ; and Webster compared, 34; and

  Robertson, J. 11., 45-7, 201

  Yeats compared, 250

  Roman Actor, The (Massinger), 155,

  Shaw, George Bernard, 104, 1 33. 256,

  1 57-8

  282

  Roman culture, 296, 304

  Shelley, Mary, 8z

  Roman literature, 1 1 5-3 1

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 81-6, 1o8--g ; and

  Roma11ce oft he Ro.
  Baudelaire compared, 235 ; and Byron

  209

  compared, 83 ; and Dante compared,

  Romanticism, 70, 72

  85, 227 ; 'Defence of Poetry', 84;

  Romeo a11d Juliet (Shakespeare), 47, 1 35,

  difficulty of, 92, 93 ; Epip.
  1 46-7

  8.1-4; and Keats compared, 8 1 ; and

  Rossetti, Christina, 59

  Marvell compared, 162, 171 ; Quem

  Rossetti, Dante G. : Blessed Damo::;e/, 225

  Mab, 8 1 ; and Scott compared, 83 ;

  Rowley, Thomas, 194

  Trirmtph of Life, The, 65, 82 ; Witch of

  Ruskin, John, 1 97

  Atlas, The, 8411 ; and Wordsworth

  Russell, Bertrand, 54

  compared, 8 1 -2, 84, 85

  Russian society, z85

  Shirley, James, 34, 79, 1 92, 1 94

  Rymer, Thomas, 4511

  Shropshire Lad, A (Housman), 245

  Socrates, 279

  St. Fran,_:ois de Sales, 1 83

  Sophocles, 1 9 1 , 207 ; Antigone, 292

  St. Ignatius, 1 83

  Southwell, Robert, 99

  St. Joall (Shaw), 1 4 1

  Spanish Gipsy, The ( ?), 1 93

  St. Paul's Cathedral, 1 80

  Spanish Tragedy (Kyd), 46

  St. Thomas Aquinas, zo8, 221-z;

  Spender, Stephen, 1.1. 1.1, 1 5 ; The

  Summa contra Gmtile.<, 180, 222

  Destmctire Elemmt, 1 3

  Sainte-BeU·e, Charles, 57, 1 1 5

  Spencer, Theodore, 13211

  Saintshury, George, 59

  Spenser, Edmund, 1 20

  Sam.mn Agonistes (Milton), r()(), 267, 269

  Spinoza, Benedict de, 55, s8, 64

  Santayana, George, 17

  Stendhal, Marie Henri, 58

  Scott, Walker, 83

  Stephen, Leslie, 158

  Sea Fairies, The (Tennyson), 240

  Stoll, Professor, 45

  Secularism in modern literature, 1 05,

  Strachcy, Sir Edward, 24 111

  1 06

  Summa contra Gerrtiles (St. Thomas

  Seneca, Lucius A., 17, 1 53 ; Agamemrwn,

  Aquinas), 1 80, 222

  42 ; llermles Fure11.<, I) I ; 1/erm/es

  Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1 09

  U:"teus, I)0- 1 ; U:"dipus, 1 90

  Swift, Jonathan, 1 1 8, 162, 176

  Senecan dramatists, 79

  Swinburne, Algernon C., .u. 5 1 , 52-3,

  Sermteen Sermons on tire Natirity

  93 ; Atalanta in Ca/ydon, 24611 ; on

  (Andrewes), 18.1-6

  1lassingcr, 1 5 9 ; and Tennyson com­

  Shadorry Water.<, The (Yeats), 252

  pared, 239 ; ami Y cats compared, 249

  Shakespeare, William, 6o, 90, 1 33, 162;

  Symboli.
  A11trmy a111/ Cleopatra, 47, 5 1 -2, II)O ;

  Symons, Arthur, 51-3, 55 ; Studie.< irr

  and Baudelaire compared, 233 ; his

  /:'li::;abethall Drama, 5 1 11

  INDEX

  Synge, John Millington, I 37

  Vita Nuova (Dante), I4, 1 6S, 226, 233

  Voltaire, 304

  Taylor, Jeremy, 9S, I 2 I , ISO

  Tennyson, Alfred, 63-5, 109, 1 40, ·• so ;

  Wallace, Nellie, I 72-3

  and Dante compared, 214- 1 S ; Dora,

  Waller, Thomas, 1 I 1

  240; Hesperides, 239-40 ; Idylls of the

  Walsingham, Thomas, 1 So

  King, 1 49, 241 ; In Memoriam, 239-47 ;

  Waste Land, The (Eliot), I3-I4, 17, 20,

  Lady of Shaloll, 240 ; Locksley Hall,

  88

  245 ; Lotos-Eaters, The, 240; and Mar­

  Watson, Prof. J. B., 204

  vell compared, 1 62 ; Maud, 239, 24I-

  Webster, John, 6o, I 53, 1 s6 ; Duchess of

  243 ; Morte d'Arthur, 241 ; Princess,

  Malfi, The, 34, ISS ; and Massinger

  The, 2.p-2 ; Sea Fairies, The, 240;

  compared, ISS, I 57 ; and Middleton

  Ulysses, l i S, 241 ; Voyage of Mae/dune,

  compared, 1 9 1 , I92; and Shakespeare

  246n

  compared, 34; White Devil, The, 34

  Testaments, The (Villon), I 6S

  (his)

  Thackeray, William, Ioo, I02, I76

  Whm you are old and grey . . . (Yeats),

  Thompson, Francis, 59

  lSI

  Thomson, James, 96 ; The City of Dread-

  White Droil, The (Webster), 34 (his)

  ful Night, 24S

  Whitgift, John, 1 So

  Till yard, E. M. W. : Milton, 266

  Whitman, Walt, I SO

  Times Literary Supplement, I 2

  Who Goes with Fergus ? (Yeats), 250

  To his Coy Mistress, (Marvell), 62, 65,

  Winding Stair, The (Yeats), 254

  I63-s. I 67

  Women Beware Women (Middleton),

  Tourneur, Cyril, I3, I4, 6o, I 5 3 ;

  I9I-2

  Atheist's Tragedy, 34, IS6; and

  Woolf, Virginia, I04

  Massinger compared, ISS-6, I 57; and

  Word
sworth, William, Ss, I I I, 272 ;

  Middleton compared, I92; Re·venger's

  difficulty of, 92-3 ; and Marvell com­

  Tragedy, The, I3, I S, IS6

  pared, I 62, I7I ; and Milton compared,

  Townshend, Aurelian, 59; Dialogue

  26o; and Shelley compared, SI-2, S4,

  betwwz a Pilgrim and Time, 67

  Ss ; Tennyson, influence on, 240

  Triumph of Life, The (Shelley), 65, 82

  Work in Progress (Joyce), 262-3

  Wren, Christopher, I So

  Ulysses (Joyce), 84, I?s-S

  Wyatt, Thomas, I09

  Ulysses (Tennyson), 2 I 5, 24I

  Upon Appleton House (Marvell), I65

  Yeats, W. B., 1 I2, I SO, I 77, 248-s7 ;

  Utilitarianism, I99

  Adam's Curse, 25 I ; Coole Park, 2s4 ;

  and Dante compared, 2 I ; Dream of

  Valery, Paul, 235

  Death, A, 25 I ; Dreaming of the Bor1es,

  Vanity of Human Wishes (Johnson), 6I

  The, 255-6 ; Folly of Being Comforted,

  Vaughan, lfenry, s9, 66, 99

  251 ; Green Helmet, zss ; Hawk's Well,

  Verlaine, Paul, 52

  The, 2 56; and Marvell compared, I62 ;

  Vers Libre, 3I-6

  Only Jealousy of Emer, The, 256 ; Plays

  Very Woman, A (Massinger), 1 59-60

  for Dancers, 137. 252, 255 ; Pound, in­

  Villon, Francois, 99, 207, 209; The

  fluence on, I SO ; Purgatory, I3S, 2S3,

  Testamellls, I68

  2SS ; Responsibilities, 2SI-2 ; Shadowy

  Virgil, IoS, 1 09, I IS et seq., I 46 ; Aeneid,

  Waters, The, 252; When you are old

  I2S ; Dante on, 246

  and grey . . .

  , lS I ; Who goes with Fer­

  Virgil Society, u sn

  gus ?, 2so; Winding Stair, The, 254

  320

  Document Outline

  Cover

  Title Page

  Copyright

  Epigraph

  CONTENTS

  Introduction Notes

  I. Literary Criticism Essays of Generalization Reflections on "Vers Libre"

  Tradition and the Individual Talent

  Hamlet

  The Perfect Critic

  The Metaphysical Poets

  The Function of Criticism

  From: Preface to "Anabasis"

  From: "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism"

  Religion and Literature

  From: The Music of Poetry

  What is a Classic?

  Poetry and Drama

  Appreciations of Individual Authors From: "Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry"

  From: Henry James

  From: Philip Massinger

  Andrew Marvell

  Marie Lloyd

  Ulysses, Order, and Myth

  Lancelot Andrewes

  From: Thomas Middleton

  Francis Herbert Bradley

  Dante

  From: Baudelaire

  From: The "Pensées" of Pascal

  "In Memoriam"

  Yeats

  Milton I