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56. TSE, ‘The Hawthorne Aspect’, 48, 49, 50, 53.
57. L1, 266.
58. Ibid.
59. Aldous Huxley, Letters of Aldous Huxley, ed. Grover Smith (London: Chatto and Windus, 1969), 156.
60. L1, 267.
61. T. S. Apteryx [TSE], ‘Observations’, Egoist, 5.5 (May 1918), 69, 70.
62. CPP 40–41; [TSE], ‘Contemporanea’, Egoist, 5.6 (June–July 1918), 84.
63. TSE, ‘Tarr’, Egoist, 5.8 (September 1918), 106.
64. [TSE], ‘Contemporanea’, Egoist, 84.
65. Ibid.
66. [TSE], ‘Short Notices’, Egoist, 5.5 (May 1918), 75.
67. Sacheverell Sitwell, Egoist, 5.5 (May 1918), 70.
68. L1, 271.
69. Ibid.
70. IMH, 383.
71. L1, 268, 269.
72. Harold Peters entry in Harvard Class of 1910, Fourth Report (Cambridge, Mass: Crimson Printing Company, 1921), 304.
73. L1, 273.
74. L1, 272.
75. L1, 269.
76. L1, 274.
77. L1, 279, 283.
78. ‘Registration Card’ for Thomas Stearns Eliot, 19 August 1918, US National Archives and Records Administration, accessed online in March 2013 at www.archives.gov/atlanta/wwi-draft/eliot.html
79. L1, 276.
80. L1, 277.
81. L1, 279.
82. L1, 280.
83. Charles W. Eliot, letter ‘To Whom It May Concern’, 27 August 1918 (carbon) (Houghton bMS Am1691 (103)).
84. L1, 288.
85. Ibid.
86. L1, 289, 286.
87. L1, 290.
88. L1, 297.
89. L1, 300.
90. L1, 295.
91. L1, 291.
92. L1, 297.
93. L1, 285.
94. Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 1: 1915–1919, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (London: Hogarth Press, 1977), 210, n.34.
95. Virginia Woolf, The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 1912–1922, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Hogarth Press, 1976), 295, 296.
96. Woolf, Diary, I, 218–19.
97. TSE, ‘Studies in Contemporary Criticism, I’, Egoist, 5.9 (October 1918), 114.
98. Woolf, Diary, I, 219.
99. Ibid., 223.
100. ‘Not Here, O Apollo’, Times Literary Supplement, 12 June 1919, repr. in T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 21.
101. ‘Is This Poetry?’, Athenaeum, 20 June 1919, repr. in T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews, ed. Brooker, 22.
102. TSE, ‘A Note on Ezra Pound’, To-day, 5.19 (September 1918), 4, 5, 6.
103. TSE, ‘Studies in Contemporary Criticism, I’, 113.
104. ‘Is This Poetry?’, 22.
105. L1, 303.
106. L1, 304.
107. L1, 306.
108. L1, 310.
109. L1, 309.
110. TSE, ‘Studies in Contemporary Criticism, II’, Egoist, 5.10 (November–December 1918), 132.
111. Ibid.
112. ‘President Wilson’s Message Home’, Times, 27 December 1918, 7.
113. L1, 311, 312.
114. L1, 312.
115. L1, 404, 405.
116. L1, 314.
Chapter 13 – Old Man
1. VE, Diary for 1919, entries for 8, 9, 10 January (Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Misc. f532); L1, 317, 316
2. ‘In Memoriam Henry Ware Eliot’, Washington University Record, Series I, 14.5 (February 1919), 3, 4.
3. L1, 316.
4. L1, 315.
5. L1, 316.
6. L1, 317.
7. L1, 323.
8. L1, 319.
9. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 9 January; Carole Seymour-Jones, Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot (London: Constable and Robinson, 2001), 11; The Medical Directory 1919 (London: J & A Churchill, 1919), 336.
10. L1, 320.
11. Seymour-Jones, Painted Shadow, 223.
12. Betrand Russell to TSE, 19 March 1919, quoted in ibid., 225.
13. This academic correspondence is quoted from Manju Jain, T. S. Eliot and American Philosophy: The Harvard Years (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 34, 35.
14. L1, 323.
15. IMH, 349; Dante Alighieri, The Inferno of Dante Alighieri (London: J. M. Dent and New York: E. P. Dutton, 1900), 379 (Canto XXXIII, 122). See CPP, 37–9.
16. IMH, 349–51.
17. L1, 380.
18. IMH, 352, 350.
19. [TSE], ‘The New Elizabethans and the Old’, Athenaeum, 4 April 1919, 135; TSE, ‘A Sceptical Patrician’, Athenaeum, 23 May 1919, 361; L1, 342.
20. L1, 325.
21. L1, 328.
22. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 2 March.
23. Ibid., entry for 3 March.
24. L1, 338.
25. L1, 340.
26. L1, 331.
27. TSE, ‘American Literature’, Athenaeum, 25 April 1919, 237.
28. TSE, ‘A Romantic Patrician’, Athenaeum, 2 May 1919, 266–7.
29. TSE, ‘Kipling Redivivus’, Athenaeum, 9 May 1919, 298.
30. L1, 342.
31. TSE, ‘Kipling Redivivus’ (letter), Athenaeum, 16 May 1919, 344.
32. L1, 345.
33. L1, 381.
34. L1, 332; Brigit Patmore, My Friends When Young (London: Heinemann, 1968), 87.
35. L1, 334.
36. L1, 337.
37. Virgina Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 1: 1915–1919, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (London: Hogarth Press, 1977), 235, 262, 265.
38. Virgina Woolf, The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 1912–1922, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Hogarth Press, 1976), 344.
39. L1, 345.
40. Woolf, The Question of Things Happening, 350.
41. Ibid., 355.
42. TSE, ‘Beyle and Balzac’, Athenaeum, 30 May 1919, 392, 393.
43. TSE, ‘Criticism in England’, Athenaeum, 13 June 1919, 457.
44. L1, 338.
45. L1, 338–9.
46. L1, 343.
47. Lytton Strachey, quoted in L1, 352.
48. Lytton Strachey to TSE, 13 February and 20 July 1920 (Houghton bMS Am1432 (136 and 138)); see also L1, 388, 445, 477.
49.
L1, 347.
50. L1, 358.
51. IMH, 350.
52. Ottoline Morrell, Ottoline at Garsington: Memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1915–1918, ed. Robert Gathorne-Hardy (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), 120.
53. L1, 350.
54. L1, 365.
55. L1, 349.
56. L1, 358, 359.
57. L1, 356.
58. L1, 342.
59. L1, 353.
60. L1, 357.
61. L1, 365.
62. VE, Diary for 1919, entries for 21, 22 June.
63. L1, 366.
64. L1, 367.
65. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 21 June.
66. L1, 368.
67. L1, 370.
68. Ibid.
69. TSE, ‘The Education of Taste’, Athenaeum, 27 June 1919, 520.
70. TSE, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry, [IV]’, Egoist, 6.3 (July 1919), 39.
71. L1, 367.
72. TSE, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry, [IV]’, 39.
73. L1, 411.
74. L1, 423.
75. TSE, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry, [IV]’, 39, 40.
76. Ibid., 39.
77. Ibid.; Conrad Aiken, The Charnel Rose (Boston: Four Seas Company, 1918), 12, 13, 19, 29, 30, 42, 43.
78. TSE, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry, [IV]’, 40.
79. L1, 375, 399.
80. L1, 378.
81. L1, 381, 379.
82. L1, 376.
83. L1, 379; VE, Diary for 1919, entries for 12, 13 July.
84. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 20 July.
85. Ibid., entry for 22 July; L1, 399.
86. L1, 381.
87. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 21 July; The Medical Directory 1919, 377.
88. L1, 388, 386.
89. L1, 382.
90. L1, 384.
91. TSE, ‘A Foreign Mind’, Athenaeum, 4 July 1919, 553.
92. TSE, ‘The Romantic Generation if it Existed’, Athenaeum, 18 July 1919, 616, 617.
93. TSE, ‘Was There a Scottish Literature?’, Athenaeum, 1 August 1919, 680, 681.
94. Ibid., 681.
95. TSE, ‘Reflections on Contemporary Poetry, [IV]’, 39; TSE, ‘Whether Rostand Had Something about Him’, Athenaeum, 25 July 1919, 665; TSE, ‘Some Notes on the Blank Verse of Christopher Marlowe’, Art and Letters, 2.4 (Autumn, 1919), 198.
96. L1, 378, 387.
97. TSE, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent, [I]’, Egoist, 6.4 (September 1919), 55.
98. Ibid.
99. TSE, ‘The Old Comedy’, Athenaeum, 11 June 1920, 761.
100. ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent, [I]’, 55.
101. TSE, ‘Humanist, Artist, and Scientist’, Athenaeum, 10 October 1919, 1015.
102. TSE, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent, [I]’, 55.
103. L1, 387.
104. L1, 392.
105. L1, 393.
106. EP, Collected Shorter Poems (London: Faber and Faber, 1968), 172.
107. L1, 393.
108. L1, 407.
109. L1, 388.
110. L1, 407.
111. EP to Dorothy Pound, August 1919, quoted in Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound (London: Faber and Faber, 1988), 349.
112. EP, Canto XXIX, quoted in A. D. Moody, Ezra Pound: Poet, Volume 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 360, 361.
113. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 31 August.
114. Ibid.
115. Ibid., entry for 5 September.
116. Ibid., entry for 7 September.
117. L1, 394.
118. Richard Aldington, Life for Life’s Sake: A Book of Reminiscences (New York: Viking Press, 1941), 269.
119. L1, 395.
120. TSE, ‘Hamlet and his Problems’, Athenaeum, 26 September 1919, 941, 940.
121. TSE, ‘Swinburne and the Elizabethans’, Athenaeum, 19 September 1919, 909, 910.
122. TSE, ‘Hamlet and his Problems’, 941.
123. Ibid.
124. Ibid.
125. [TSE], ‘Murmuring of Innumerable Bees’, Athenaeum, 3 October 1919, 972.
126. TSE, ‘The Preacher as Artist’, Athenaeum, 28 November 1919, 1252.
127. [TSE], ‘Murmuring of Innumerable Bees’, 972.
128. L1, 426.
129. L1, 406; VE, Diary for 1919, entries for 26–30 September.
130. L1, 401.
131. L1, 405.
132. TSE, ‘Humanist, Artist, and Scientist’, 1014.
133. L1, 404.
134. L1, 415.
135. TSE, ‘War-paint and Feathers, Athenaeum, 17 October 1919, 1036.
136. TSE, ‘The Method of Mr. Pound’, Athenaeum, 24 October 1919, 1065.
137. Ibid.
138. EP, Quia Pauper Amavi (London: Egoist Press, 1919), 19.
139. TSE, ‘The Method of Mr. Pound’, 1066.
140. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 8 October.
141. TSE, ‘Our Inaccessible Heritage’, Athenaeum, 24 October 1919, 1076.
142. For information about TSE’s London Library membership application, I am grateful to Mark Storey of the London Library.
143. TSE, ‘The Preacher as Artist’, 1253.
144. TSE, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent, II’, Egoist, 6.5 (December 1919), 72.
145. L2, 627.
146. TSE, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent, II’, 73.
147. TSE, ‘The Old Comedy’, 761.
148. TSE, ‘The Comedy of Humours’, Athenaeum, 14 November 1919, 1180.
149. TSE, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent, II’, 72.
150. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 19 November.
151. TSE, ‘The Local Flavour’, Athenaeum, 12 December 1919, 1332.
152. L1, 420.
153. [TSE], ‘Ben Jonson’, Times Literary Supplement, 13 November 1919, 637; Purgatorio, XXI.
154. [TSE], ‘Ben Jonson’, 637, 638.
155. EP, Collected Shorter Poems, 208.
156. L1, 425.
157. L1, 421.
158. L1, 424.
159. L1, 423.
160. L1, 426.
161. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 25 December.
162. L1, 424, 425.
163. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 26 December.
164. Ibid., entries for 30 and 31 December.
Chapter 14 - Professional
1. ‘Public Appointments’ and ‘Appointments Vacant’, Times, 6 January 1920, 3.
2. L1, 485.
3. TSE, ‘
Modern Tendencies in Poetry’, Shama’a, 1.1 (April 1920), 11.
4. L1, 444.
5. TSE, ‘John Maynard Keynes’, New English Weekly, 16 May 1946, 47.
6. John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), 3, 5, 6, 279, 297.
7. TSE to John Hayward, 29 November 1939 (Hayward Bequest).
8. Michael Hickling, ‘Return from the Island of the Saints’, Yorkshire Post, 20 April 2013, 8 (I am grateful to Mark Webster for calling this to my attention); CPP, 68.
9. L1, 453.
10. L1, 435.
11. A. David Moody, Ezra Pound: Poet, Volume I (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 390; L1, 464.
12. L1, 435.
13. L1, 436.
14. L1, 447.
15. Ibid.
16. TSE, ‘The Naked Man’, Athenaeum, 13 February 1920, 208; TSE, ‘Swinburne’, Athenaeum, 16 January 1920, 72; [TSE], ‘Correspondence: The Phoenix Society’, Athenaeum, 27 February 1920, 285.
17. TSE, ‘The Perfect Critic, II’, Athenaeum, 23 July 1920, 103.
18. L1, 463.
19. TSE, ‘Swinburne’, 72.
20. CPP, 171.
21. TSE, ‘The Naked Man’, 208.
22. VE, Diary for 1919, entry for 4 January 1920 (Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. Misc. f532).
23. L1, 458.
24. L1, 451.
25. L1, 450, 475.
26. L1, 481.
27. L1, 460.
28. TSE, ‘A Brief Treatise on the Criticism of Poetry’, Chapbook, 2:9 (March 1920), 9.
29. Dante, The Divine Comedy, II, Purgatorio, tr. John D. Sinclair (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), 342, 343; TSE, ‘The Method of Mr. Pound’, Athenaeum, 24 October 1919, 1065; CPP, 75, 59.
30. [TSE] ‘Murmuring of Innumerable Bees’, Athenaeum, 3 October 1919, 972; TSE, ‘The Poetic Drama’, Athenaeum, 14 May 1920, 635.
31. Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume IV: 1920–1921, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott, 1996), 11; L1, 473.
32. The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 1912–1922, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Hogarth Press, 1976), 437.