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5. TSE, ‘London Letter’, Dial, 72.5 (May 1922), 513.
6. EP, The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn 1915–1924 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1921), 206.
7. See Lawrence Rainey, Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’ (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005), 76.
8. EP, Ezra Pound to his Parents: Letters 1895–1929, ed. Mary de Rachewiltz, A. David Moody and Joanna Moody (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 493.
9. EP, Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn, 206.
10. EP, Pound/The Little Review: The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson (London: Faber and Faber, 1988), 266, 270; L1, 606.
11. Jean Cocteau, ‘The Cape of Good Hope’, tr. Jean Hugo, Little Review, 8.1 (Autumn 1921), 51, 57.
12. Ibid.
13. CPP, 61.
14. L1, 623.
15. L1, 625; Facsimile, 101.
16. L1, 626.
17. L1, 629; CPP, 59.
18. EP, ‘Translator’s Postscript’, in de Gourmont, The Natural Philosophy of Love, 206.
19. L1, 630.
20. L1, 630, 631.
21. L1, 626.
22. CPP, 124.
23. L1, 629.
24. L1, 632.
25. TSE, ‘The Three Provincialities’, Tyro, 2 ([Spring 1922]), 12, 13.
26. TSE, ‘London Letter’ (May 1922), 510, 512, 513.
27. L1, 640.
28. Katherine Mansfield, The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume V: 1922–1923, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 75.
29. Jeremy Hutchinson to the present writer, 10 November 2013.
30. Facsimile, 3; CPP, 59.
31. L1, 655.
32. L1, 654.
33. EP, Selected Letters of Ezra Pound 1907–1941, ed. D. D. Paige (London: Faber and Faber, 1982), 172.
34. Ibid., 172, 173.
35. L1, 649.
36. Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2, 1920–24, ed. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie ((Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981), 170, 171.
37. Jeffrey Meyers, ‘T. S. Eliot’s Green Face Powder: A Mystery Solved’, Yeats Eliot Review, 28.3/4 (2011), 34.
38. L1, 652.
39. Virginia Woolf, The Question of Things Happening: The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 1912–1922, ed. Nigel Nicolson (London: Hogarth Press, 1976), 521.
40. L1, 656.
41. L1, 657.
42. L1, 661.
43. Ibid.
44. L1, 658.
45. TSE, ‘Ulysses, Order, and Myth’, Dial, 75.5 (November 1923), 481 (quoting Aldington).
46. L1, 663.
47. L1, 664.
48. L1, 666.
49. L1, 667.
50. Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters, ed. Norman T. Gates (Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, 1992), 67.
51. L1, 668.
52. L1, 701.
53. TSE, ‘London Letter’, Dial, 73.1 (July 1922), 96.
54. TSE, ‘Answers to the Three Questions’, Chapbook, 27 (July 1922), 8.
55. L1, 626.
56. L1, 674.
57. L1, 676.
58. L1, 675.
59. Herman Hesse, ‘The Brothers Karamazov – The Downfall of Europe’, tr. Stephen Hudson, Dial, 72.6 (June 1922), 607.
60. L1, 675.
61. L1, 687.
62. EP, Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn, 210–11.
63. L1, 668, 678.
64. L1, 679.
65. L1, 714.
66. L1, 681.
67. L1, 680, 681.
68. L1, 680.
69. L1, 684.
70. L1, 685.
71. L1, 688.
72. Ibid.
73. EP, Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 175.
74. Ibid.
75. L1, 688.
76. Woolf, The Question of Things Happening, 544.
77. Ibid., 548.
78. L1, 691.
79. L1, 699.
80. L1, 708.
81. L1, 745.
82. L1, 701, 702.
83. L1, 702.
84. L1, 706.
85. L1, 745.
86. Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 2, 187.
87. L1, 708.
88. Ibid.
89. L1, 693, 709.
90. L1, 718; L2, 3.
91. L1, 710.
92. L1, 712.
93. L1, 750.
94. L1, 780; EP, Ezra Pound to his Parents: Letters 1895–1929, ed. Mary de Rachewiltz, A. David Moody and Joanna Moody (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 505.
95. L1, 742.
96. L1, 721.
97. John Peale Bishop to Edmund Wilson, 5 August 1922, quoted in Rainey, Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’, 74.
98. L1, 723.
99. L1, 733.
100. L1, 743, 747.
101. L1, 748.
102. L1, 746.
103. L1, 756.
104. L1, 751.
105. L1, 768.
106. L1, 752, 754.
107. L1, 756.
108. L1, 758.
109. L1, 759.
110. L1, 613.
111. George Saintsbury, ‘Dullness’, Criterion, 1.1 (October 1922), 15.
112. F. M. Dostoevsky, ‘Plan of a Novel, “The Life of a Great Sinner”’, Criterion, 1.1 (October 1922), 16, 17, 19; Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 2, 203.
113. Hermann Hesse, ‘Recent German Poetry’, Criterion, 1.1 (October 1922), 90; TSE, ‘Ulysses, Order, and Myth’, 483.
114. T. Sturge Moore, ‘The Story of Tristram and Isolt in Modern Poetry’, Criterion, 1.1 (October 1922), 49.
115. L1, 768, 765.
116. Facsimile, 11, 13, 127.
117. L1, 765.
118. L1, 788.
119. CPP, 62.
120. L1, 770.
121. L1, 775.
122. L1, 770, 771.
123. L1, 772.
124. L1, 776.
125. L1, 788.
126. L1, 789.
127. L1, 790.
128. L1, 794.
129. L1, 800.
130. L1, 801.
131. L1, 796.
; 132. L1, 816.
133. L1, 796.
134. See John Peale Bishop’s letter to Edmund Wilson, 3 November 1922, quoted in Rainey, Revisiting ‘The Waste Land’, 104.
135. L1, 798.
136. L1, 803.
137. CPP, 77.
138. Facsimile, 1.
139. Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, 2, 178.
140. Mary Hutchinson, ‘T. S. Eliot’, short, unpublished, undated biographical sketch in typescript, holograph emendation, in the possession of her son Jeremy Hutchinson (quoted with his permission).
141. L2, 124.
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T. S. Eliot is referred to as TSE throughout.
Abbey, Edward Austin
Abbott, Jacob
Ackroyd, Peter
Action Française, L’
Adams, Henry
Adams, John
Adams, John Quincy
Aiken, Conrad: at Harvard with TSE; TSE confides in over sexual anxiety; reads ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’; recognises TSE’s poetic genius; advises TSE to visit Ezra Pound in London; interest in Freudian ideas; TSE’s disdain for; cancels holiday with TSE; reviews The Sacred Wood; recommends publisher for The Waste Land; poetry of
Alain-Fournier, Henri
Aldington, Richard: assistant editor at the Egoist magazine; serves in the Great War; admires TSE’s editorial skills; unimpressed by TSE’s beard; war experience; on TSE; sends flowers to Vivien; TSE’s friendship with; TSE shows The Waste Land to; and Pound’s ‘Bel Esprit’ scheme; on James Joyce’s Ulysses; breach with TSE
Amory, Roger
Anesaki, Masaharu
Armstrong, Martin
Arnison, George Wright
Arnold, Edwin, The Light of Asia
Arnold, Edwin Lester
Arnold, Matthew
Art and Letters (journal)
Athenaeum (journal)
Augustine, St
Babbitt, Irving
Bagnall, Effie
Baker, George Pierce
Bakewell, Charles Montague
Balfour, Arthur
Ballets Russes
Barrie, J. M.
Baudelaire, Charles
Beach, Sylvia
Beerbohm, Max
Beethoven, Ludwig van
‘Bel Esprit’ (Ezra Pound’s subscription scheme)
Bell, Clive
Bell, Vanessa
Belvalkar, Shripad Krishna
Bennett, Arnold
Bergson, Henri; TSE attends his lectures in Paris; TSE becomes sceptical about; TSE lectures on
Betjeman, John
Blake, William
Blanshard, Percy
Blast (journal)
Blood, Charlotte (TSE’s grandmother)
Blood, Thomas Heywood
Bloomsbury group
Blow, Susan E.
Boas, George
Bodenheim, Max
Bomberg, David
Boni and Liveright (publishers)
Bosham, West Sussex
Bosschère, Jean de
Boston, Massachusetts
Boynton, Percy H.
Bradley, F. H.; Appearance and Reality; Essays on Truth and Reality; TSE’s PhD thesis on
Brett, Dorothy
Briggs, LeBaron Russell
Brokmeyer, Henry C.
Brooks, Van Wyck
Brooks, Winthrop Sprague, ‘Nick’
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Robert
Buckle, Charles
Buddha’s Fire Sermon
Buddhism
Bulmer, John Legge
Burns, Robert
Butler-Thwing, Francis Wendell
Byron, George Gordon, Lord
Cahiers de la Quinzaine, Les (journal)
Cambridge, England
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Social Dramatic Club
Cannan, Gilbert
Carrington, Dora
Carroll, Caroline J.
Carroll, Lewis
Catholic Anthology (1915)
Cawein, Madison
Channing, William Ellery
Chapbook (journal)
Chase, George Henry
Child, Harrison Bird
Churchill, Winston (American writer)
Claudel, Paul
Clutton Brock, Arthur
Cobb, Richard
Cobden-Sanderson, Richard
Cocteau, Jean
Colefax, Lady Sibyl
Collingwood, R. G.
Common Sense (newspaper)
Connolly, James B.
Conrad, Joseph
Copeland, Charles Townsend
Cornford, F. M.
Costello, Harry Todd
Criterion (journal): proposal for; TSE commits to being editor; TSE solicits work for; given name by Vivien Eliot; TSE’s anxiety over; first issue
Croonenbergh, Charles
Culpin, Karl
Cummings, E. E.
Cunard, Lady Nancy
Curd, Charles P.
Cushing, Colonel Charles
Dada (art movement)
Dale, Alan
Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
D’Annunzio, Gabriele
Dante
Davidson, John
Davidson, Thomas
Davis, Hubert Henry
Dawes, Samuel
Day, Reverend John William
de la Mare, Walter
Debussy, Claude, Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
Delacroix, Henri
Delsarte, François
Demos, Raphael
Deussen, Paul Jakob
Dial (journal); TSE article ‘The Possibility of a Poetic Drama’; TSE article ‘The Second-Order Mind’; TSE article ‘Ulysses, Order, and Myth’; TSE wins the magazine’s $2,000 prize; TSE’s ‘London Letters’ in; TSE’s negotiations to publish The Waste Land in
Dickens, Charles
Diels, Hermann Alexander
Dismorr, Jessica
Dodds, Eric
Dolmetsch, Arnold
Donne, John
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Dowden, Edward
Dozier, Lewis
Drinkwater, John
Dryden, John
Duchamp, Marcel
Dudley, Dorothy
Dudley, Helen
Duncan, Isadora
Dunne, Annie (TSE’s nanny)
Durkheim, Émile
East Coker, Somerset
Egoist (journal); TSE becomes assistant editor of; Pound publishes ‘Drunken Helots and Mr Eliot’ in; plan to publish Joyce’s Ulysses in serial form; special issue memorialising Henry James; publishes ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’; demise of
Egoist Press
Elgar, Edward
Eliot, Abigail Adams (TSE’s grandmother)
Eliot, Abigail (TSE’s cousin)
Eliot, Ada (TSE’s sister)
Eliot, Andrew (ancestor)
Eliot, Reverend Andrew (ancestor)
Eliot, Charles William (Harvard President)
Eliot, Charlotte Champe, ‘Lottie’ (TSE’s mother): death of daughter Theodora; birth of TSE; interests and education; family background; poetry of; religious inclinations; and TSE’s childhood; writes biography of William Greenleaf Eliot; anxiety for TSE’s health and social life; and St Louis World’s Fair (1904); on TSE’s education; reaction to TSE’s marriage; wish for TSE to have an academic career; visit to England
Eliot, Charlotte (TSE’s sister)
Eliot, Christopher Rhodes (TSE’s uncle)
Eliot, Etta (TSE’s aunt)
Eliot, Frederick (TSE’s cousin)
Eliot
, George
Eliot, Henry (TSE’s brother): and TSE’s childhood; takes family photographs; and Student Life magazine; taste for Tin Pan Alley; on family’s conservatism; remembers TSE reading Milton as a child; at Harvard; partial deafness due to childhood illness; announces TSE’s marriage to the St Louis press; sympathetic to TSE over marriage; TSE’s correspondence with; financial support for TSE; sends family photographs to TSE; visit to England; on Garsington; on Vivien’s ill-health; congratulates TSE on The Waste Land
Eliot, Henry Ware, ‘Hal’ (TSE’s father): family background; literary and artistic background; brick company; pride in his ancestry; house in Gloucester, Massachusetts; interest in natural science; attitude to sex education; and St Louis World’s Fair (1904); and TSE’s education; Ezra Pound writes to regarding TSE’s career; reaction to TSE’s marriage; concern for TSE after marriage; dislike of TSE’s move to England; financial support of TSE; helps TSE try to enrol for military service; dislike of Vivien; pride in TSE; death
Eliot, Margaret (TSE’s sister)
Eliot, Marion (TSE’s sister)
Eliot, Martha (TSE’s cousin)
Eliot, Mary (TSE’s aunt)
Eliot, Samuel A.
Eliot, Theodora (TSE’s niece): see Smith, Theodora Eliot
Eliot, Thomas Lamb (TSE’s uncle)
Eliot, Thomas Stearns:
Childhood and education: birth and immediate family; family background; family home; plays in the girls’ school playground; relationships with girls; relationships with other children; experiences cyclone in St Louis; attends Mrs Lockwood’s school; summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts; sense of American history; early literary tastes; attends Smith Academy; ‘becomes’ T. S. Eliot; produces Fireside (first surviving literary work); earliest surviving verses; interest in actresses; attends Jacob Mahler’s Dancing Academy; writes George Washington, A Life; visits Camp Maple Hill, Quebec; published in the Smith Academy Record; attends Milton Academy, Massachusetts; arrival at Harvard; academic study at Harvard; poor academic performance at Harvard; takes up rowing; Harvard friendships; membership of the Digamma/Fox Club at Harvard; ‘Columbo’ and ‘Bolo’ poems; body-building at Harvard; published in the Harvard Advocate; parodied in the Harvard Lampoon; reads Arthur Symons’ The Symbolist Movement in Literature; first reads Laforgue; interest in French literature at Harvard; is invited to join the Signet Society; election to the Stylus club; influence of Irving Babbitt; hospitalised with scarlet fever; recites graduation ‘Ode’; graduates from Harvard; sails round Mount Desert Rock, Gloucester, Massachusetts; brief visit to London (1910); year abroad in Paris (1910–11); encounters Cubism and Futurism in Paris; friendship with Jean Verdenal; travels in France (1910–11); visit to London (1911); completes ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ in Munich (1911); visits Italy (1911); returns to Harvard for doctoral study; interest in Buddhism and Eastern thought; studies Sanskrit, Pali and Indic Philology at Harvard; attends lectures by Masaharu Anesaki at Harvard; attends lectures by Rabindranath Tagore at Harvard; paper to the Philosophy Club on Walter Lippmann’s A Preface to Politics; President of the Harvard Philosophical Club; appointed Sheldon Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard; paper on the science of religion (1913); meets Bertrand Russell at Harvard; acts with the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club; relationship with Emily Hale