“too shy and unpractised”: Ibid.
“very immature for my age”: Ibid.
“because I wanted to burn my boats”: Ibid.
“bolted up to the stage”: Ackroyd, T. S. Eliot: A Life, 294.
“My nerves are bad” and Pound’s and Vivien’s notes: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound, ed. Valerie Eliot (London: Faber and Faber, 1971), 11. Future references will be to TWL Facsimile.
“To her the marriage brought”: TSE Letters 1 2009, xix.
“has deteriorated”: Ibid., 613.
“much less inspired”: Ibid.
“to me he seemed”: Ibid.
“always must be an American”: Ibid., 613.
“keyed up, alert”: TSE Letters 1 2009, xix.
“still-trailing Bostonian voice”: Wyndham Lewis, Blasting and Bombardiering (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937), 275.
“recognizably English”: Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 309.
“the general run of Americans”: Ibid.
“further exasperated”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 592.
“some prominent person”: Ibid., 593.
“He only really expressed himself”: Ottoline Morrell journal, Lady Ottoline Morrell Papers, British Library, Add. MS 88886/6/13, transcript, p. 29.
“Good-bye Henry”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 576.
Lady Rothermere, Mary Lilian Harmsworth, the wife of the publisher Harold Harmsworth, agreed: Ibid., 577.
“Hypothetical Review”: Ibid., 580.
“Therefore I am immersed”: Ibid., 579.
“It is going to be”: Ibid., 576.
Even his typewriter: Ibid., 585.
“Look at my position”: Ibid., 592.
“He had left New York”: James Dempsey, The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014), 97. Thayer was “[p]erpetually on the edge of sanity,” Dempsey writes (120). Thayer’s sessions with Freud ended in spring 1923, but he continued to edit the Dial from Europe. He resigned as editor in June 1926. He was frequently institutionalized and was legally certified as insane in 1937. He died in 1982.
His divorce from his wife: Ibid., 100.
“the Professor himself”: Ibid., 102.
“the most celebrated specialist in London”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 584.
“thoroughly … greatly overdrawn”: Ibid.
“feel quite different after … As nobody”: Ibid., 583.
“great name”: TSE to Julian Huxley, October 26, 1921, Ibid., 593.
“without any difficulty at all”: Ibid., 584.
“enforced rest and solitude”: Ibid.
“strict rules”: Ibid., 586.
“not exert [his] mind”: Ibid.
Tom’s release from the pressure and tension: Ibid., 585.
“to think of the future”: Ibid., 586.
“fortunate opportunity”: Ibid., 585.
“I have not described”: Ibid.
“quite alone and away”: Ibid., 586.
Standard treatment: T. J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Anti-Modernism and the Transformation of American Culture (New York: Pantheon, 1981), 52, quoted in Matthew K. Gold, “The Expert Hand and the Obedient Heart: Dr. Vittoz, T. S. Eliot, and the Therapeutic Possibilities of The Waste Land,” Journal of Modern Literature 23, nos. 3–4 (Summer 2000): 522.
“getting on amazingly”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 593.
“postcard to himself”: David Seabrook, All the Devils Are Here (London: Granta Books, 2003), 8.
“quite the best man”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 594.
“not solely due”: T. S. Eliot, The Letters of T. S. Eliot, ed. Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton, vol. 2, 1923–1925 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011), 5. Future references will be to TSE Letters 2.
“nerve man: TSE Letters 1 2009, 594.
“largely due to the kink in my brain”: TSE Letters 2, 5.
“psychological troubles”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 594.
“utterly dead & empty”: OM journal, September 3, 1921, Lady Ottoline Morrell Papers, British Library, Add. MS 88886/4/12.
“nerves or insanity!”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 598.
“more useful for my purpose”: Ibid., 617.
“a dull place”: Ibid.
“carte postale colorée country”: Ibid.
“the food is excellent”: Ibid., 608.
a 1921 French edition of which Eliot owned: Ibid., 594n1.
“system of mental control”: Ibid., 835.
“steadying and developing”: Ibid.
“extraordinary poise and goodness”: Ibid.
“in short he is”: Ibid., 608.
“every form of neurasthenia”: Rogert Vittoz, Treatment of Neurasthenia by Means of Brain Control, trans. H. B. Brooke (London: Longmans, Green, 1921), vii.
“imperfections of that [brain] control”: Ibid., viii.
“uncurbed brain”: Ibid. 5.
“state of anarchy”: Ibid.
“prey to every impulse”: Ibid.
“painful confusion”: Ibid., 7.
“I seem to have no time”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 608.
“more calm than I have for many years”: Ibid., 609.
“Apparently all of Western Europe”: Ibid., 617.
“awful expense … little room … did not seem … en pension … too incredibly dear”: Ibid., 618.
“most exquisite”: Ibid.
“Now if I could secure … For Tom, I am convinced”: Ibid.
“What a last impression”: Ibid.
“about 800 or 1000 lines”: Ibid., 617.
“in a trance—unconsciously”: VW Diary 4, 288.
The sea was calm: These are the lines Eliot wrote in Lausanne. The phrases at the center of the stanza—“I left without you / Clasping empty hands”—which, perhaps not incidentally, also encapsulate Eliot’s emotions as he left Vittoz’s care, do not appear in the published poem. TWL Facsimile, 79.
“Everything is now postponed”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 571.
“The Christian Era ended”: Quoted in ibid., 625n1.
“furiously busy six days”: Tom Dardis, Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright (New York: Random House, 1995), 86.
“sailed for YURUP”: Ezra Pound, Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895–1929, ed. Mary de Rachewitz, A. David Moody, and Joanna Moody (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 492.
“guide and mentor”: Dardis, Firebrand, 86.
“the last of the human cities”: Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), 508.
“best of all”: Dardis, Firebrand, 87.
Pound took advantage of serendipity and brought Liveright and Eliot and Joyce together for dinner: Ibid., 90.
“Joyce nearly killed”: Pound, Ezra Pound to His Parents, 492.
“much more of a man”: Richard Londraville and Janis Londraville, Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford: Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2001), 200.
“Glad Liveright is to see you”: Homer Pound to Ezra Pound, January 13, 1922, Ezra Pound Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, YCAL MSS 43, Series II, Box 60, Folder 2684.
“a great ‘fan’”: Lewis, Blasting and Bombardiering (1937), 285.
“Pound circus”: Ibid., 269.
“Ezra’s boyscoutery”: Ibid., 254.
“Point I can never seem”: Pound, Pound/The Little Review, 266.
“had an unforgettable look”: Louis Kronenberger, “Gambler in Publishing,” Atlantic Monthly, January 1965. Galley proofs in Manuel Komroff Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, Box 2, item 10066F, galley 3.
“always dressed”: Ibid.
“quite aware”: Ibid.
“in a well-fitted Chesterfield”: Manuel Komroff, “The Liveright Story,” 48, unpublished manuscript, in Manuel Komroff Papers, Ra
re Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, Box 24.
“Horace’s hangovers”: Kronenberger, “Gambler in Publishing.”
“discipline was about as out of place”: Ibid.
“with a well-trained smile”: Ibid.
“This is a hell of a time”: Ibid.
“Authors in the waiting room”: Paul S. Boyer, Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age, rev. ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), 82.
“his unaffected love of alcohol”: Komroff, “The Liveright Story,” 48.
“A nice collection”: Ellmann, James Joyce, 510.
“he was in the habit of frequenting”: Ibid., 532.
“made no pretense”: Ibid., 514.
“I had never realized”: Ibid., 495.
“burdensome … Oh yes. He is polite”: Ibid.
“But he is exceedingly arrogant”: Ibid.
“pearl”: Dardis, Firebrand, 86.
“U.S. publicators”: Ezra Pound, The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907–1941, ed. D. D. Paige (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950), 186.
Sherwood Anderson: Dardis, Firebrand, 180.
“offered to bring out Ulysses”: Ibid., 90.
“Why the hell he didn’t nail it”: Ibid.
“slightly draped”: B. L. Reid, The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), 484.
“the certainty of prosecution … He said he did not want”: Ibid., 485.
“meat, cake, breads”: Pound, Ezra Pound to His Parents, 490.
“so mountany gay”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 631.
“As to Twentieth century poetry”: Ezra Pound, “Prolegomena,” in Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, ed. T. S. Eliot (New York: New Directions, 1968), 12.
“a portrait of failure”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 63n2.
“false art”: Ibid.
“last intelligent man”: Ezra Pound to H. L. Mencken, October 3, 1914, quoted in T. S. Eliot, The Poems of T. S. Eliot, ed. Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue, vol. 1, Collected and Uncollected Poems (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), 400.
“I have yet had or seen”: Ezra Pound to Harriet Monroe, September 30, 1914, Ibid., 365.
“move against poppy-cock”: Pound, “Prolegomena.”
“devil of it”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 63.
“nothing good”: Ibid.
“superfluities”: Ibid., 625.
“caesarean operation”: Ibid., 629.
and was why, very soon: In July 1924, Eliot sought the advice of Arnold Bennett, who wrote in his journal that Eliot was now ““centred on dramatic writing” and “wanted to write a drama of modern life … in a rhythmic prose.” See TSE Letters 2, 465 and 465n3.
“period of tranquility”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 502.
“He has written a particularly fine poem”: Wyndham Lewis to OM, Ottoline Morrell Collection, HRC, Box 13, Folder 4.
“MUCH improved”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 625.
the repetition of the word: Gold, “The Expert Hand and the Obedient Heart,” 531.
“That is nineteen pages”: TSE Letters 1 2009, 626.
“he had done enough”: John Quinn to Homer L. Pound, November 29, 1921, John Quinn papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, Letterbook vol. 25, p. 117.
3: Edward Morgan Forster
“haze of elderly ladies”: P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life, 2 vols. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), 1:28.
“The boy grew up”: Forster, Longest Journey, 24.
“exciting game”: Ibid.
“Will review the year”: E. M. Forster, The Journals and Diaries of E. M. Forster, ed. Philip Gardner, 3 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011), 2:3.
“I may shrink”: Ibid., 62.
“India not yet a success”: Ibid., 63.
“Am grinding out my novel”: Ibid., 6.
“In your novels”: Ibid., 5.
“There is no doubt”: Philip Gardner, ed., E. M. Forster: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973), 130.
“With this book, Mr. Forster”: Ibid., 129.
7,662 copies: EMF to Edward Arnold, 27-2-23, The Papers of E. M. Forster, EMF/18/169, King’s College Archive Centre, Cambridge. Future references will be to EMF Papers, KCAC.
“Let me not be distracted”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:17.
“I should satisfy myself”: EMF to Edward Arnold, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/169.
“One ‘oughtn’t to leave one’s mother’”: E. M. Forster, Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, ed. Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank, vol. 1, 1879–1920 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), 228. Future references will be to EMF Letters 1.
“she unexpectedly read family prayers”: “Memorandum on Mother,” EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/11/11/a.
“You see, I too have no news”: EMF to Forrest Reid, 4-2-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/457.
“As you say, I shall go”: EMF to Forrest Reid, 4-2-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/457.
“sububurban”: Forster, Longest Journey, 32.
“a little builder’s house”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 3:178.
“The house is littered with manuscripts”: EMF to G. H. Ludolf, 6-3-20, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/333. Future references to G. H. Ludolf will be abbreviated as GHL.
“until its destructions”: Ibid.
“How fatuous!”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:57. Forster crossed out the word “accomplishing” and replaced it with “creating.”
“just the aimiable [sic]”: Ibid.
“the proof being”: VW Diary 1, 310–11.
“fingering the keys”: Ibid.
“Indian M.S.”: EMF to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 31-5-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/158. Future references to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson will be abbreviated as GLD.
“While trying to write”: EMF Letters 1, 302.
“go for six months”: Furbank, E. M. Forster, 2:67.
“get a passport and passage”: EMF to Forrest Reid, 17-2-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/457.
“Morgan goes to India”: VW Diary 2, 96.
“just the thing”: Ibid.
“usual Bob style”: Ibid.
“too submissive and deferential”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 3:143.
“was dignified and reticent”: Forster, Longest Journey, 24.
“broke down at breakfast”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:57.
an early death: Forster, Longest Journey, 26.
“the sudden business of my life”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:18.
“naughtiness”: EMF to Florence Barger, 5-20-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/38/1, vols. 34/1–2. Future references to Florence Barger will be abbreviated as FB.
“careless of this suburban life”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:45.
“treated with great kindness”: E. M. Forster, Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, ed. Mary Lago and P. N. Furbank, vol. 2, 1921–1970 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), 8. Future references will be to EMF Letters 2.
One of his proposed tasks: Ibid.
“noble writings of the past”: Ibid., 9n7.
“slight and the enthusiasm slighter”: Ibid., 8.
“decently furnished”: EMF to FB, undated fragment [October 1921], EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/38/1, vols. 34/1-2.
“only distaste and despair”: E. M. Forster, The Hill of Devi: The Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster, ed. Elizabeth Heine (London: Edward Arnold, 1983), 99.
“electric house”: EMF Letters 2, 1.
“Perhaps it is the heat”: EMF to Syed Ross Masood, 25-5-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/360/1. Future references to Syed Ross Masood will be abbreviated as SRM.
“does not use in me”: EMF to GLD, 31-5-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/158.
“My Indian M.S. is with me”: Ibid.
“silliness of Indian life”: EMF Letters 2, 10.
“seemed to wilt and go dead”: Forster, Hill of Devi,
99.
“dull piece … unattractive for the most part … mainly confined”: EMF to FB, 13-10-21, EMF Papers, KCAC, EMF/18/38/1, vols. 34/1-2.
Morgan had a bad dream: Letter of August 24, 1921, quoted in Rama Kandu, E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2007), 265–66.
“how unsuitable were my wanderings”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:64.
“felt caught in their meshes”: E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, ed. Oliver Stallybrass (London: Penguin Books, 1983), 36.
“to escape from the net”: Ibid., 37.
“Slowness and apathy increase”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:64.
“My mind is now obsessed”: Ibid., 61.
“indecent” stories: Ibid., 66.
“something positively dangerous”: Ibid.
“I could bear no more”: Ibid., 19.
“Non respondit”: Ibid.
“weariness of the only subject”: Ibid., 27.
“Desire for a book”: Ibid., 18.
“lustful thoughts … personal”: Ibid., 46.
“a believer in the Love of Comrades”: E. M. Forster, “Terminal Note,” in Maurice (New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), 249.
“It seemed to go straight through”: Ibid.
“for the first time in my life”: EMF Letters 1, 243.
“do the motherly”: Ibid., 237.
“all these young gods”: Ibid.
“Nice”: E. M. Forster, Alexandria: A History and a Guide and Pharos and Pharillon: The Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster, ed. Miriam Farris Allott (London: Andre Deutsch, 2004), 329.
“African-Negro blood”: Ibid.
“in the prime of … physical glory”: Ibid., 331.
“intervene or speak”: Ibid.
“one great piece of good luck”: EMF Letters 1, 253.
“age, race, rank”: Ibid.
“hit on things of objective worth”: Ibid.
“romantic curiosity … on both sides”: Ibid.
“adventures”: Ibid.
“a gracious generosity”: EMF Letters 1, 258.
“my damned prick”: Forster, Alexandria, 332.
“I am so happy”: EMF Letters 1, 274.
“gruff demur … lean back”: Forster, Alexandria, 333.
“frequent coldness”: Forster, Journals and Diaries, 2:67.
“If the letters cease”: EMF Letters 1, 300.
“snatch a meeting”: Furbank, E. M. Forster, 2:67.
“four perfect hours together”: EMF Letters 2, 2.
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