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117. L1, 162.
118. L1, xix.
119. L1, 165.
120. L1, 165, 154.
121. L1, 160.
122. [TSE], ‘Charles Péguy’ (review), New Statesman, 7 October 1916, 20.
123. L1, 162.
124. Ibid.
125. TSE, ‘Conscience and Christ’ (review), International Journal of Ethics, 27.1 (October 1916), 112.
126. TSE, ‘Group Theories of Religion and the Religion of the Individual’, International Journal of Ethics, 27.1 (October 1916), 117.
127. IMH, 83.
128. TSE, Syllabus of a Course of Six Lectures on Modern French Literature (Oxford: Frederick Hall, 1916), 5.
129. [TSE], ‘An American Critic’, New Statesman, 24 June 1916, 284.
130. TSE, report on his 1916 Oxford University Extension Lectures, quoted in Ronald Schuchard, Eliot’s Dark Angel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 31, 32.
131. Valerie Eliot in L1, 228.
132. Joint Committee’s minutes (19 October 1916), quoted in Schuchard, Eliot’s Dark Angel, 32.
133. L1, 171.
134. Monk, Bertrand Russell, 481.
135. Russell, Selected Letters, 86; see also Monk, Betrand Russell, 482.
136. Russell, Selected Letters, 86.
137. L1, 169.
138. L1, 171.
139. L1, 173.
140. Ibid.
141. L1, 174.
Chapter 11 – Observations
1. VE to Scofield Thayer, 2 August 1915 (Beinecke YCAL 34, series IV, box 31, folder 812).
2. Bertrand Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction (London: Allen and Unwin, 1916), 173, 174; a description of Russell as ‘the ablest’ man appeared in a Nation review of this book quoted opposite the title page of the 1917 reprint.
3. CPP, 31.
4. Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), 433.
5. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson (whose stage name was Colette O’Niel), 21 October 1916, Bertrand Russell, The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914–1970, ed. Nicholas Griffin (London: Routledge, 2001), 482.
6. Monk, Bertrand Russell, 511.
7. Russell, Selected Letters, 51.
8. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson, 30 October 1917, ibid., 129.
9. CPP, 47 (‘Mélange Adultère de Tout’), 38 (‘Gerontion’).
10. CPP, 38.
11. Matthew 5:27.
12. L3, 712.
13. L2, 639.
14. L2, 627, 628.
15. Lawrence Rainey, Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’ (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 34; Lyndall Gordon, Eliot’s Early Years (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), 95–97; Facsimile, 105, 107.
16. TSE, ‘“The Duchess of Malfi” at the Lyric: and Poetic Drama’, Art and Letters, 3.1 (Winter 1919/20), 37.
17. TSE, ‘Eeldrop and Appleplex, I’, Little Review, 4.1 (May 1917), 9.
18. L1, 177, 213, 239.
19. L1, 177.
20. L1, 178.
21. TSE, ‘Reflections on Vers Libre’, New Statesman, 3 March 1917, 518, 519.
22. Ibid., 519.
23. EP to James Joyce, 19 April 1917, IMH, 291.
24. Times Literary Supplement review of Prufrock and Other Observations, repr. in T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 6.
25. CPP, 13.
26. L1, 194.
27. TSE, ‘Elements of Folk Psychology’, International Journal of Ethics, 27.2 (January 1917), 254.
28. CPP, 46 (‘Le Directeur’).
29. CPP, 47.
30. I. E. P., White Plains, New York, ‘Critical Epilepsy’, in ‘The Reader Critic’, Little Review, 4.3 (July 1917), 25; James Joyce, ‘The Reader Critic’, Little Review, 4.2 (June 1917), 26; see also the magazine’s front cover.
31. L1, 175; Mary Hutchinson, ‘T. S. Eliot’, short, unpublished, undated biographical sketch in typescript in the possession of Jeremy Hutchinson, who has allowed me to quote from it; another copy is at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, and is quoted in Carole Seymour-Jones, Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot (London: Constable and Robinson, 2001), 243.
32. Jeremy Hutchinson on ‘Desert Island Discs’, BBC Radio 4, 25 October 2013.
33. Quoted on the caption to Vanessa Bell’s 1915 portrait of Mary Hutchinson in the Tate Gallery, London (Tate 01768), available online.
34. Mary Hutchinson to Lytton Strachey, 17 January 1917, quoted in Seymour-Jones, Painted Shadow, 204.
35. Clive Bell to Mary Hutchinson, 16 January 1917, quoted in ibid., 203–4.
36. TSE, ‘Reflections on Vers Libre’, 518.
37. Clive Bell to Mary Hutchinson, 8 April 1917, quoted in Seymour-Jones, Painted Shadow, 204–5; CPP, 29.
38. Maurice Haigh-Wood (1980), quoted in Seymour-Jones, Painted Shadow, 205.
39. Jeremy Hutchinson on ‘Desert Island Discs’, and letter to the present writer, 10 November 2013.
40. My interview with Jeremy Hutchinson, 3 December 2013.
41. Mary Hutchinson, ‘T. S. Eliot’, holograph memoir in the possession of her son, Jeremy Hutchinson (quoted with his permission).
42. Ibid.
43. Mary Hutchinson, ‘T. S. Eliot’, short, unpublished, undated biographical sketch in typescript.
44. Mary Hutchinson, ‘T. S. Eliot’, holograph memoir.
45. CPP, 74.
46. Mary Hutchinson, ‘T. S. Eliot’, holograph memoir.
47. L3, 712.
48. Mary Hutchinson, ‘T. S. Eliot’, holograph memoir.
49. Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction, 164, 165.
50. L1, 180.
51. L1, 188.
52. CPP, 47; L1, 182.
53. L1, 180.
54. L1, 195.
55. L1, 182.
56. L1, 185.
57. CPP, 63, 62, 77.
58. L1, 219; CPP, 46 (‘Le Directeur’).
59. Karl Baedeker, London and its Environs (Leipzig: Dulau & Co., 1908), 124. TSE’s annotated copy, Hayward Bequest HB/B/4.
60. L1, 219.
61. TSE, ‘London Letter’, Dial, 70.6 (June 1921), 691.
62. Benefactors’ Board, St Magnus Martyr, Lower Thames Street, London.
63. Memorial tablet (‘rest[ore]d Xmas 1889’), vestibule, St Magnus Martyr.
64. CPP, 69.
65. Ibid.
66. L1, 186.
67. John Ruskin, The Works of John Ruskin, XVII, ed. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn (London: George Allen, 1905), 432.
68.
L1, 195.
69. L1, 185.
70. L1, 188.
71. Ibid.
72. L1, 189.
73. L1, 198; see also Vivien Whelpton, Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover, 1911–1929 (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2014), 125, 150.
74. EP to John Quinn, 11 April 1917, quoted in Facsimile, xii.
75. L1, 192.
76. L1, 197.
77. T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews, ed. Brooker, 16.
78. Ibid., 16, 6, 4, 5, 13.
79. L1, 199.
80. Ibid.
81. L1, 205.
82. L1, 371; George Simmers, ‘T. S. Eliot’s Letter to “The Nation”’ and ‘Eliot, Corridors and T. E. Hulme’ on the Great War Fiction website at http://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com (accessed March 2013); IMH, 93.
83. L1, 203.
84. Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume V: 1922–1923, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 256.
85. Katherine Mansfield to Ottoline Morrell,?24 June 1917, Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Letters, Volume I; 1903–1917, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), 312.
86. L1, 205.
87. L1, 206.
88. VE to Scofield Thayer, 1 July 1917 (Beinecke YCAL 34, series IV, box 31, folder 812).
89. Ibid.
90. Aldous Huxley to Ottoline Morrell, 21 June 1917, in Ottoline Morrell, Ottoline at Garsington: Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1915–1918, ed. Robert Gathorne-Hardy (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), 207.
91. [TSE], ‘M. Bourget’s Last Novel’, New Statesman, 25 August 1917, 500.
92. CPP, 48.
93. TSE, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry, [II]’ Egoist, 4.9 (October 1917), 133, 134.
94. CPP, 48; IMH, 292.
95. IMH, 86.
96. CPP, 49.
97. CPP, 44, 45.
98. IMH, 365.
99. L1, 210.
100. CPP, 51.
101. IMH, 87; F. O. Matthiessen made the Ruskin connection: see B. C. Southam, A Student’s Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot, fifth edn (London: Faber and Faber, 1990), 76.
102. IMH, 87; translation by Alice Crawford.
103. L1, 210, 211.
104. TSE, ‘The Letters of J. B. Yeats’, Egoist, 4.6 (July 1917), 89.
105. TSE, Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry, CC, 164, 166, 177.
106. EP, ‘Vers Libre and Arnold Dolmetsch’, Egoist, 4.6 (July 1917), 90.
107. TSE, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry, I’, Egoist, 4.8 (September 1917), 119.
108. L1, 221.
109. According to Hugh Kenner, cited in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound (London: Faber and Faber, 1988), 264.
110. Alfred A. Knopf to John Quinn, 17 August 1917, quoted in Facsimile, xii.
111. CPP, 51; Edwin Lester Arnold, The Wonderful Adventures of Phra the Phoenician, with an introduction by Sir Edwin Arnold (New York: A. L. Burt, [1890]), 4.
112. L1, 222; CPP, 45 (‘A Cooking Egg’).
113. L1, 214.
114. Mary Hutchinson, ‘War’, Egoist, December 1917, 171.
115. L1, 220.
116. L1, 223.
117. L1, 221.
118. Ibid.
119. L1, 222.
120. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson, 16 October 1917, Russell, Selected Letters, 127–8.
121. L1, 227; 225, 227.
122. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson, 30 October 1917, Russell, Selected Letters, 129.
123. L1, 228.
124. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson, 30 October 1917, quoted in Monk, Bertrand Russell, 511.
125. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson, 7 November 1917, quoted in ibid., 514.
126. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson, 13 November 1917, quoted in ibid.
127. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson, 14 November 1917, quoted in ibid.
128. L1, 234, 235.
129. L1, 239.
130. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson, 1 January 1918, quoted in Monk, Bertrand Russell, 515.
131. L1, 241.
132. CPP, 49.
133. L1, 244.
134. L1, 231.
135. L1, 246.
136. L1, 234.
137. L1, 239.
138. [TSE], ‘Correspondence’, Egoist, 4.11 (December 1917), 165.
139. L1, 242.
140. Ibid.
141. L1, 240.
142. L1, 242.
143. L1, 240.
144. L1, 244.
145. L1, 240.
Chapter 12 – American
1. L1, 245.
2. TSE, ‘Turgenev’, Egoist, 4.11 (December 1917), 167.
3. Advertisement, ‘The May–June Poetry Review’, Times, 1 May 1917, 8.
4. [TSE], ‘Short Reviews’, Egoist, 4.11 (December 1917), 173.
5. [TSE], ‘Short Reviews’, Egoist, 5.1 (January 1918), 10.
6. TSE, ‘In Memory of Henry James’, ibid., 1.
7. Ibid., 2.
8. Frank Norris, The Pit: A Story of Chicago (1903; repr. New York: Doubleday, 1920), 288.
9. TSE, ‘In Memory of Henry James’, 2.
10. TSE, ‘Disjecta Membra’, Egoist, 5.4 (April 1918), 55.
11. TSE, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry’, Egoist, 4.10 (November 1917), 151.
12. [TSE], ‘A Contemporary Thomist’, New Statesman, 29 December 1917, 312.
13. TSE, ‘Recent British Periodical Literature in Ethics’, International Journal of Ethics, 38.2 (January 1918), 274.
14. L2, 124.
15. TSE, ‘Recent British Periodical Literature in Ethics’, 276, 277.
16. [TSE], ‘The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life’ (review), Monist, 28.1 (January 1918), 158, 159.
17. [TSE], ‘Elements of Folk Psychology’ (review), Monist, 28.1 (January 1918), 160.
18. See Edward Butscher, Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988), 129.
19. [TSE], ‘New Philosophers’, New Statesman, 13 July 1918, 296.
20. Edwin B. Holt, The Freudian Wish and its Place in Ethics (New York: Henry Holt, 1915), 10, 105, 45; IMH, 54; CPP, 32.
21. TSE, ‘Literature and the American Courts’, Egoist, 5.3 (March 1918), 39.
22. Bertrand Russell to Constance Malleson, 6 January 1918, quoted in Carole Seymour-Jones, Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot (London: Constable and Robinson, 2001), 191.
23. Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996), 521.
24.�
�� Bertrand Russell, ‘The German Peace Offer’, Tribunal, 3 January 1918, quoted in Monk, Bertrand Russell, 520.
25. TSE, ‘Style and Thought’, Nation, 23 March 1918, 769.
26. L1, 251.
27. ‘Announcements’, Egoist, 5.3 (March 1918), 47.
28. L1, 269.
29. Ibid.
30. Apteryx [TSE], ‘Verse Pleasant and Unpleasant’, Egoist, 5.3 (March 1918), 44.
31. L1, 254.
32. L1, 252.
33. L1, 253.
34. L1, 255.
35. L1, 256.
36. L1, 262, 258.
37. L1, 260.
38. Ronald Schuchard, Eliot’s Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 93.
39. CPP, 56–7.
40. CPP, 42–3, 54–5; Lawrence Rainey, Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’ (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), 198–9.
41. IMH, 383.
42. [TSE], ‘Correspondence’, Egoist, 5.3 (March 1918), 47.
43. TSE, ‘London Letter’, Dial, December 1922, 661.
44. L1, 259; [TSE (‘Apteryx’)], ‘Professional, Or…’, Egoist, 5.4 (April 1918), 61.
45. William Thackeray, Vanity Fair (1848; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979), 622 (chapter 53).
46. [TSE (‘Apteryx’)], ‘Professional, Or…’, 61.
47. L1, 266.
48. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (New York: Henry Holt, 1890), 190.
49. ‘The Troops at Marlow, The Military Regatta’, South Bucks Free Press, Wycombe, Maidenhead, and Marlow Journal, and South Oxfordshire Gazette, 29 June 1917, 3; Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, 190.
50. L1, 272.
51. See photograph 259 in Hayward Bequest, King’s/PP/HB/P, 259.
52. Marlow Directory and Almanac 1915 (Marlow: Welbourne & Simpson, 1915), 35.
53. L1, 266.
54. L1, 262.
55. L1, 266; TSE, ‘The Hawthorne Aspect’, Little Review, 5.4 (August 1918), 47.