33. L1, 475–6.
34. L1, 464.
35. Ibid.
36. L1, 474, 501.
37. [Garnet Smith], ‘Romance and Religion’, Times Literary Supplement, 27 May 1920, 330.
38. TSE, inscription in his copy of Jessie L. Weston, From Ritual to Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920) (Houghton *AC9.El464.R920w).
39. L1, 476.
40. L1, 479, 482.
41. L1, 468.
42. L1, 472.
43. Ibid.
44. L1, 477.
45. Ibid.
46. L1, 478.
47. Ibid.
48. L1, 483.
49. L1, 489.
50. L1, 495.
51. L1, 493.
52. Wyndham Lewis, Blasting and Bombadiering, second edn (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 270.
53. L1, 655.
54. Lewis, Blasting & Bombadiering (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1937), 276.
55. L1, 494.
56. Ibid; TSE, ‘Wyndham Lewis’, Hudson Review, 10.2 (Summer 1957), 169.
57. L1, 497; Wyndham Lewis, ‘Early London Environment’, in Tambimuttu and Richard March, eds, T. S. Eliot: A Symposium (New York: Tambimuttu and Mass), 30.
58. TSE, ‘Wyndham Lewis’, 168.
59. L1, 492.
60. See Hayward Bequest photographs 268 and 273 and captions; L1, 498.
61. L1, 492.
62. L1, 493.
63. L2, 185.
64. L1, 493.
65. Peter Ackroyd, T. S. Eliot (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1984), 62.
66. TSE to John Hayward, 29 November 1939 (Hayward Bequest).
67. Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2: 1920–24, ed. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (London: Penguin, 1981), 67–8.
68. Richard Aldington, letter to Amy Lowell, 17 June 1920, quoted in Vivien Whelpton, Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2013), 243; Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume IV: 1920–1921, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 47.
69. L1, 488.
70. L1, 496.
71. Ibid.
72. L1, 491.
73. L1, 498.
74. L1, 501.
75. L1, 499, 500.
76. L1, 499.
77. L1, 504.
78. L1, 499.
79. L1, 502.
80. Ibid.
81. Ibid.
82. L1, 511.
83. Jeremy Hutchinson, ‘Desert Island Discs’, on BBC Radio 4, 25 October 2013.
84. L1, 508.
85. L1, 515.
86. L1, 510.
87. TSE, ‘Euripides and Gilbert Murray: A Performance at the Holborn Empire’, Art and Letters, 3.2 (Spring 1920), 38–43.
88. Ibid., 43.
89. Woolf, Diary, 2, 68.
90. [TSE], ‘Philip Massinger’, Times Literary Supplement, 27 May 1920, 325.
91. Ibid., 325, 326.
92. TSE, ‘Artists and Men of Genius’ (letter), Athenaeum, 25 June 1920, 842.
93. Edouard Dujardin, De Stéphane Mallarmé au prophete Ezèchiel: et essai d’une théorie du réalisme symbolique (Paris: Mercure de France, 1919), 32–75.
94. TSE, ‘The Perfect Critic, II’, 104.
95. TSE, ‘The Possibility of a Poetic Drama’, Dial, 69.5 (December 1920), 441, 442, 443.
96. Ibid., 443.
97. TSE, ‘The Second-Order Mind’, Dial, 69.6 (December 1920), 586, 589.
98. L1, 517.
99. TSE, ‘The Second-Order Mind’, 586, 589.
100. L1, 514.
101. L1, 511.
102. L1, 521.
103. L1, 520.
104. Ibid.
105. L1, 521.
106. Woolf, Diary, 2, 77.
107. T. S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews, ed. Jewel Spears Brooker (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 66.
108. L1, 515.
109. L1, 538.
110. L1, 515.
111. CPP, 70.
112. L1, 536.
113. L1, 531, 529.
Chapter 15 – To Lausanne
1. L1, 532.
2. L1, 541.
3. L1, 534.
4. Stephen Spender, Eliot (Glasgow: Fontana, 1975), 49; list of TSE library books in VE’s scrap book (Bodleian Library MS. Eng. Let. b. 20); see Edmund Spenser, Poetical Works, ed. J.C. Smith and E. De Selincourt (Oxford: University Press, 1912), 601 (‘Prothalamion’); CPP, 67.
5. [TSE], ‘Andrew Marvell’, Times Literary Supplement, 31 March 1921, 201.
6. CPP, 67.
7. L1, 534.
8. TSE, ‘Prose and Verse’, Chapbook, 22 (April 1921), 3.
9. L1, 538.
10. Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 2, 1920–24, ed. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), 91.
11. L1, 542.
12. ‘A Forbidden Play’, Times, 15 February 1921, 9; L1, 542.
13. L1, 540.
14. L1, 542.
15. L1, 544.
16. Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 2, 100.
17. L1, 546.
18. Encyclopedia Britannica (1911), entry for ‘Neuritis’.
19. L1, 546.
20. Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume IV: 1920–1921 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 201.
21. Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 2, 103, 104.
22. L1, 548.
23. Virginia Woolf, The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 1912–1922, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (London: Hogarth Press, 1976), 472; L1, 536.
24. TSE, ‘Prose and Verse’, 5.
25. Woolf, The Question of Things Happening, 467.
26. Conrad Aiken, The House of Dust (Boston: Four Seasons Company, 1920), 12, 20, 42, 134, 38, 48, 86, 96, 140.
27. TSE, ‘Prose and Verse’, 5.
28. Wyndham Lewis to Sydney Schiff, 7 February 1921 (British Library, MS add. 52919).
29. TSE, ‘Song to the Opherian’, Tyro, 1 ([Spring 1921]), 6.
30. TSE, ‘The Romantic Englishman, the Comic Spirit, and the Function of Criticism’, Tyro, 1 ([Spring 1921]), 4.
31. TSE, ‘T
he Lesson of Baudelaire’, Tyro, 1 ([Spring 1921]), 4; CPP, 63.
32. L1, 539.
33. TSE, ‘London Letter’, Dial, 70.4 (April 1921), 448, 449, 450, 451.
34. Alexander Pope, The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt (London: Methuen, 1965), 425.
35. [TSE], ‘John Dryden’, Times Literary Supplement, 9 June 1921, 361.
36. TSE, ‘London Letter’ (April 1921), 451; TSE, ‘The Lesson of Baudelaire’, 4.
37. Facsimile, 23, 27.
38. TSE, ‘Andrew Marvell’, 201.
39. Jean Cocteau, Oeuvres romanesques complètes (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2006), 217.
40. Facsimile, 31.
41. Facsimile, 27, 33, 35.
42. Facsimile, 54.
43. Facsimile, 11, 15.
44. IMH, 87.
45. Facsimile, 15.
46. Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1939), v, vi.
47. TSE, ‘London Letter’, Dial, 71.4 (October 1921), 49.
48. L1, 569.
49. L1, 561, 562.
50. Woolf, The Question of Things Happening, 49.
51. L1, 563, 564.
52. TSE, ‘Ulysses, Order and Myth’, Dial, 75.5 (November 1923), 480, 481, 482, 483.
53. L1, 549.
54. L1, 550.
55. Ibid.
56. Facsimile, 3.
57. L1, 551.
58. CPP, 68.
59. L1, 553.
60. L1, 553–4.
61. L1, 556.
62. L1, 568.
63. TSE, ‘John Dryden’, 362.
64. Ibid.
65. L1, 556–7.
66. L1, 564.
67. L1, 567.
68. D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love (1921; repr. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979), 328; Woolf, The Question of Things Happening, 475.
69. L1, 568.
70. Osbert Sitwell, unpublished memoir, 19 February 1950, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, quoted in Carole Seymour-Jones, Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot (London: Constable and Robinson, 2001), 274.
71. L1, 567, 568.
72. ‘Contemporary Music’, Times, 8 June 1921, 10.
73. TSE, ‘London Letter,’ Dial, 71.4 (October 1921), 452.
74. ‘Le Sacre du Printemps’, Times, 28 June 1921, 8.
75. TSE, ‘A Commentary’, Criterion, 3.9 (October 1924), 5.
76. L1, 569; L2, 90.
77. L1, 569.
78. Ibid.
79. L1, 570, 571.
80. L1, 571, 572.
81. HWE, Jr, ‘Picturesque Mumps’ (typescript dated 1921), (Houghton bMS Am 1691.10 (20)).
82. L1, 575.
83. L1, 597.
84. L1, 573.
85. I. A. Richards, ‘On TSE’, in Allen Tate, ed., T. S. Eliot: The Man and his Work (London: Chatto and Windus, 1967), 4.
86. L1, 576.
87. L1, 577.
88. Sitwell, memoir, quoted in Seymour-Jones, Painted Shadow, 274.
89. L1, 576.
90. L1, 578.
91. L1, 590.
92. L1, 579.
93. L1, 578, 579.
94. L1, 578.
95. L1, 592.
96. TSE, ‘London Letter’, (October 1921), 453.
97. Richard Aldington, letter to Amy Lowell, 7 April 1921, quoted in Vivien Whelpton, Richard Aldington: Poet, Soldier and Lover (Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2014), 243.
98. Jean Epstein, La Poésie d’aujourd’hui: Un nouvel état d’intelligence (Paris: Editions de la Sirène, 1921), 60, 58, 61, 64, 73, 127, 97, 113, 169, 173, 182, 181, 189.
99. L1, 580.
100. L1, 581.
101. TSE, ‘The Metaphysical Poets’, Times Literary Supplement, 20 October 1921, 670.
102. Ibid., 669.
103. Facsimile, 5.
104. Facsimile, 5–21; TSE, ‘London Letter’, Dial, 71.2 (August 1921), 213; on the May datings, see Lawrence Rainey, Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’ (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), 17–21.
105. TSE, ‘London letter’ (August 1921), 215, 214, 216, 217.
106. Facsimile, 121, 123, 61.
107. L1, 582.
108. Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 2, 140.
109. L1, 583.
110. Mansfield, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume IV, 303.
111. L1, 584, 585.
112. L1, 592.
113. L1, 590.
114. Ibid.
115. L1, 592.
116. L1, 593.
117. Margate Official Guide (Margate: Borough of Margate Publicity Committee, 1929), 1.
118. ‘Entertainments, Cinemas, etc.’, Isle of Thanet Gazette and Thanet Times, 29 October 1921, 1.
119. L1, 593.
120. L1, 594.
121. L1, 601, 594.
122. L1, 594.
123. L1, 599.
124. L1, 601, 606.
125. L1, 601–2.
126. Facsimile, 51, 53.
127. CPP, 70.
128. Ibid.
129. CPP, 78, 79.
130. L1 603.
131. L1, 606.
132. L1, 607.
133. L1, 616.
134. L1, 619.
135. L1, 618.
136. L1, 619.
137. L1, 618.
138. Scofield Thayer to VE, 20 October 1921 (carbon) (Beinecke YCAL MSS 34 Box 1, Folder 813).
139. L1, 619.
140. L1, 646.
141. Jean Charles Biaudet, Histoire de Lausanne (Lausanne: Editions Payot, 1982), 360; several other details in my account of Lausanne during TSE’s stay are taken from November and December 1921 issues of the Feuille d’Avis de Lausanne et Résumé des Nouvelles available digitally through the Swiss National Library.
142. The hotel is now demolished but can be seen in an old postcard, ‘Lausanne – Hôtel-Pension Ste-Luce’, published in Lausanne by G. Vaney Burnier.
143. L1, 614.
144. L1, 608; biographical details about Roger Vittoz are drawn from Pierre Téqui, ed., Notes et Pensées: Angoisse ou Contrôle, revised edn (Paris: Téqui, 1992).
145. Pierre Janet, Les Obsessions et la psychasthénie (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1903), 336.
146. L1, 608.
147. L1, 609.
148. L1, 608.
149. L1, 594.
150. Julian Huxley, Memories (London: Allen and Unwin, 1970), 124.
; 151. Roger Vittoz, Treatment of Neurasthenia by Means of Brain Control, tr. H. B. Brooke, second edn (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1913), viii, 13, 1, 5, 7.
152. Ibid., 67, 59.
153. Ibid., 75.
154. Facsimile, 53.
155. Vittoz, Treatment of Neurasthenia, 27.
156. L1, 594; Vittoz, Treatment of Neurasthenia, 37.
157. L1, plate 30.
158. L1, 750.
159. Vittoz, Treatment of Neurasthenia, 54.
160. Ibid., 62.
161. Ibid., 68, 96.
162. L1, 608–9.
163. L1, 609.
164. L1; ‘The Love Nest’, Otto Harbach (lyrics) and Louis A Hirsch, (New York: Victoria Publishing Company, 1920), 2.
165. ‘Conditions aux Etats-Unis’, Feuille d’Avis de Lausanne et Résumé des Nouvelles, 27 décembre 1921, 20.
166. L1, 614.
167. Facsimile, 29.
168. Facsimile, 25; CPP, 67.
169. 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, 23.3/4 (Summer, 2000), 533.
170. L1, 614.
171. L1, 617.
172. Facsimile, 71, 73; CPP, 71, 73.
173. L1, 725–6.
174. CPP, 73, 74, 80.
175. CPP, 74.
176. L1, 563.
177. CPP, 74–5, 80.
178. Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume 4: 1931–35, ed. Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie (London: Penguin, 1983), 288.
179. Facsimile, 81, 89; L1, 614.
180. L1, 620.
181. Facsimile, 77.
182. Edmund Gosse, ed., Restoration Plays from Dryden to Farquhar (London: J. M. Dent, 1912), 55, 57.
183. Jessie L. Weston, From Ritual to Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920), 96, 167.
184. Facsimile, 77.
Chapter 16 – The Waste Land
1. L1, 622.
2. Ibid.
3. Rémy de Gourmont, The Natural Philosophy of Love, tr. EP (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922), 156.
4. L1, 631.
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