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A Strong Song Tows Us

Page 79

by Richard Burton


  birth 225–6

  BB’s visit in Seattle 507

  letters to 406–7, 449, 490–91

  meeting with BB 420–23, 525–6

  memories of England 244–5

  Bunting, Rustam, BB’s son 245

  death 343

  parentage 564(589)

  poem for 357–8

  Bunting, Sarah, BB’s aunt 116

  Bunting, Sima, née Alladadian, BB’s second wife 313, 316, 329, 503

  at Buckingham Palace garden party 455

  divorce from BB 489–92

  effect of BB’s affair 407

  financial situation 591(24)

  loan from Gael Turnbull 415

  BB’s love for 302–3, 307

  BB’s marriage to 308–9

  mother 356, 415

  perceived madness 590(326)

  reconciliation with BB 496

  sewing machine for 350

  Bunting, Sima-Maria, BB’s daughter 325, 396, 415, 421, 525–6

  birth 317

  university grant 511–12

  Bunting, Thomas Faramarz, BB’s son 343, 396

  Bunting, Thomas Lowe, BB’s father 22, 23, 25–6, 34, 37, 42–3, 86–7

  correspondence with Charles Evans 48–51

  correspondence with London School of Economics 89–90

  costs of BB’s education 542(32–4)

  death and obituaries 113–15, 116

  on education 59–60

  ill health 108–9

  love of walking and climbing 110–11

  rabbitskin gloves 534(17)

  Burke, Carolyn 106, 189

  Burns, Jim 399

  Butler, Samuel, Muggeridge’s essay on 240–41

  Butts, Mary 553(310)

  Byrd, William 35, 149, 549(209)

  C

  Caddel, Richard 36, 60, 214, 215, 254

  and Anthony Flowers 6, 11, 151, 352

  Cairo, Egypt 279

  Calvert, E. Ray 139

  Cambridge University rejection 58

  Campbell, Roy 206

  Cardiff 486–7

  Carpenter, Edward 39–40

  Carpenter, Humphrey 182, 198, 217, 470

  Catullus 409–10

  Once so they say (translation) 223–4

  Cheesman, Ann, BB’s grandmother 22–3

  Cheesman, Annie see Bunting, Annie

  Cheesman, Edward, BB’s great-uncle 22

  Cheesman, Isaac Taylor, BB’s grandfather 11, 22, 25

  Cheesman, Jennie, BB’s aunt 35

  Cheesman, Maggie, BB’s aunt 22

  Cheesman, Matthew Taylor, BB’s uncle 11, 22–3

  Cheesman, Nicholas, BB’s uncle 22–3

  Chilesotti, Oscar 181–2

  Chodorov, Stephan 469

  Chōmei, Kamo no 194

  Chopin, link with T. S. Eliot’s Preludes 145

  Christie, Alexander, BBs nephew 534–5(30)

  City of London boat 276

  Clare, John 580(3)

  Clare Market Review 88

  Clark, Edward 145–6

  Clark, Thomas 398, 402

  Clarke, Austin 13–14

  Clayre, Alasdair 399

  Cobbing, Bob 465

  Codex Lindisfarnensis 378–9, 388–9

  Cole, Thomas 305, 320

  Cole, William 434

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 56

  Collecott, Diana 226, 503, 507, 510, 537–8(100)

  Collier, John 206

  Colonial Office 576(330)

  Columbia Broadcasting 468

  Combined Intelligence Centre 283–6

  Communism 242

  Conniff, Brian 547(149)

  Connolly, Cyril 7, 397, 400, 429, 499

  Connor, Tony 413–14

  Conrad, Joseph 72

  Contempo magazine 168

  Cookson, William 176, 193–4, 218, 500

  Coppard, A. E. 99

  Corbett, William 402–3, 495, 552–3(294)

  Corman, Cid 414–15, 420, 423, 425, 427, 440–41

  Corn Close 491–2, 517–18, 520

  corporal punishment in schools 27

  correspondence between

  Bunting, Thomas and London School of Economics 89–90

  Evans, Charles and Bunting, Thomas 48–51

  Evans, Charles and H. J. Edwards of Peterhouse, Cambridge 58

  Guedalla, Roger and Mottram, Eric 463–4

  Pound, Ezra and Monroe, Harriet 201, 205

  Pound, Ezra and Zukofsky, Louis 246, 258, 261–2, 557(397)

  Williams, William Carlos and Zukofsky, Louis 227–8, 246–7, 263

  Cossey, Tanya 522, 523–4

  visit to BB 525–6

  costermongers 138

  Cotterell, Laurence 462

  coups d’état

  British 251–2

  Spanish 239

  in Iran 333

  Cowell, Margaret 23

  Cox, Kenneth 127, 401, 437–8

  Creative Writing 443

  Creeley, Robert 292, 352, 398, 401, 410, 414, 417

  criada see Juana

  criminal justice system 585(170)

  Criterion, The magazine 204, 207, 245, 256

  Crown and Thistle pub, Forestburn Gate 151

  Cunard, Nancy 292

  Cunningham, Valentine 563–4(567)

  D

  D’Oliveira, Basil 585(170)

  Dada art 98

  Daily Colonist 445

  Daily Express 43, 67, 251, 327, 348

  Daily Herald 241

  Daily Mail 19, 251, 328

  Dalton, Hugh 80

  Dalton, Will and F. J. Willard 20

  Dante 514

  Divina Commedia 472

  Inferno 238

  Darwin, Charles 514

  Origin of Species, The 383

  Davido, Roudaba see Bunting (Davido), Roudaba

  Davie, Donald 128, 369, 372, 400

  Davie, Michael 516

  Davies, Frederick A. 41–2

  Davis, Dick 186

  Dawson, Mary 30

  De Silver, Anne 255

  De Silver, Margaret 167–8, 550–51(233)

  financial support of BB 149–51, 223, 228, 259, 554(343)

  BB’s letters to 292, 307–8, 314–15, 330, 334–5, 343–5

  son 160

  Deakin, Charles 313

  Deller, Dr Edwin 88

  Dendy, F. W. 68

  Dennison, Christabel 15, 16, 135

  BB’s visit to 115–16

  Descant on Rawthey’s Madrigal: Conversations with Basil Bunting (Williams and Bunting) 1–2, 3, 72–3, 76, 104, 145, 430

  Dewhurst, Keith 438

  Dias, B. H. see Pound, Ezra

  Dickens, Charles 117, 255

  Dickinson, Patric 399

  Dilworth, Thomas 7–8

  Dodsworth, Martin 428

  Dorn, Ed 342

  Dougan, David 484

  Douglas, Clifford Hugh 82–3

  Douglas, James 67–8

  Doyle, Charles ‘Mike’ 434, 443–7, 449

  daughter, Meki 495

  BB’s letters to 454–5, 468

  Drerup, Gertrude 226, 228, 244

  Drerup, Karl 226–7, 228, 244, 250

  BB’s letters to 252–3, 258–9, 262, 266, 274–5, 287–8

  Dudek, Louis 320

  Duncan, Robert 292, 419

  Dürer, Albrecht 127

  E

  Easter Rising, Ireland 43

  economy in Britain, 1900 21–2

  Edelstein, J. M. 419

  Eden, Anthony 332–3

  Edward VIII, King 250–52

  Edwards, Edward 405, 477

  Edwards, H. J. 58

  Edwards, Margaret (Peggy) see Greenbank, Margaret (Peggy)

  Egli, Helen (née Rowe) 135–6, 186, 411–12

  Eliot, T. S. 11, 118–19, 121, 122–3, 546(134)

  anti-Semitism 178

  on Chomei at Toyama 193–4

  The Criterion magazine 204, 207, 245, 256

  exclusio
n of Homage to Sextus Propertius 561(487)

  ill health 318

  influence of 76

  letters to 323

  mentioned in introductory note to Briggflatts 362

  opinion of 204–5, 342

  on The Spoils 341

  preludes in poetry 123

  WORKS

  Ash-Wednesday 215

  essays in criticism 214–15

  Four Quartets 342

  Preludes 145

  Tradition and the Individual Talent 214–15

  Waste Land, The 8, 237, 532(27)

  comparison with Briggflatts 376–7, 387

  Elizabethan music 149

  Ellison, Dorothy 534(17)

  Ellmann, Maud 380

  Else, Richard 517–18

  Elswick, industry 26

  Encounter 399

  Evans, Charles (headmaster at Leighton Park School) 42, 46–51, 53, 57–9, 88–9

  pacifism 62–3

  reference for Rt. Hon. Sidney Webb 90–91

  Evans, E. V. 87

  Evening Chronicle 398, 400, 416, 429, 454

  working for 351–2

  Everyman magazine 160–61

  Ewart, Gavin 462

  F

  Faber and Faber 319, 341, 471

  Fabian common room at LSE 82

  Fabian Society 37–8, 39, 79, 536(56, 58)

  views 139

  Fagin, Larry 478

  Fascism 177–9, 259–62

  Fellowes, Edmund Horace 35

  Fenham Barracks 69, 70

  Fenwick, Charley 25

  Ferdowsi, Hakīm 231, 245, 555(349)

  Shahnameh 183–6, 225–6, 374–5

  Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 262

  Fernandez, Ramon 142

  Ferry, Ping 497

  festival of poetry 473–4

  Fiber, Sally 134

  Finch, Peter 465

  Finlay, Ian Hamilton 165

  Firdausi see Ferdowsi, Hakīm

  First World War 61–75

  Fisher, Roy 430–31, 432, 454

  FitzGerald, Edward 215

  Fitzroy, A. T. 67–8

  Fitzroy Tavern see Kleinfeldt’s

  Flowers, Anthony 6, 11, 151, 352

  Flynn, Dallam, editor of Poems 1950 318–19, 338

  Ford, Ford Madox 93, 95–7, 98–101, 103–7, 534–4(79)

  It Was the Nightingale 99–101

  lack of photographs 161

  on EP’s handwriting 555(353)

  Parade’s End 98–9

  Romance, collaboration with Joseph Conrad 72

  Selected Poems 455

  Forde, Victoria 144–5, 290–91, 351, 420, 475–6, 480, 534–5(30)

  accompanying BB to London 510

  accounts of BB 110–11, 112, 158–9, 167–8, 421

  on Annie Bunting 170, 220

  conversations with Bourtai and Roudaba 244–5

  conversations with BB’s sister, Joyce 76

  on T. S. Eliot 122–3

  letters to 456–8, 505–6, 508–9, 511, 516–17, 524–5

  The Poetry of Basil Bunting 6

  on Villon 128

  visit to BB 512

  on Yeats’ family 175

  Foreign Office 299, 309, 312, 332, 334

  Forster, Ann see Cheesman, Ann

  Forster, E. M. 241

  Forsyth, Jimmy 26

  fortunes, change in 395–6, 402–3

  Foulds, Elfrida Vipont 30–31

  Four Pages magazine 338

  Fox, George 30–31

  Fox, Josephine 501

  Fox Cottage, Whitley Chapel 521–3, 525

  France, Anatole 87

  Franco, Francisco 243

  Fraser, G. S. 499–500

  free verse 198

  Fry, Ellen Mary 391, 579(54)

  Fry, Roger 134

  Fulcrum Press 397, 428, 436, 499

  Fuller, Roy 429

  Fülöp-Miller, René 142

  G

  Garzan, Gen. Abbas 288

  Geordie dialect 456

  George V, King 203

  George VI, King 252

  German Fifth Column 286

  Gibbon, Edward 232

  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The 233

  Gilonis, Harry 189–90

  Ginsberg, Allen 401

  Studying the Signs 425–6

  Gnomon Press 430

  Goacher, Denis 324, 334, 336, 350, 405–6, 498–9

  on BB 71, 254, 348, 407–8, 414, 430

  on BB’s accent 16

  on T. S. Eliot 341–2

  BB’s letters to 354, 403, 471, 505

  on reviews of BB’s work 400

  visit to EP 306–7

  on William Wordsworth 438–9

  Golden Hind, boat 271–3, 567(27)

  Gollan, Lachlan 23

  Gordon, David 123–4, 479

  Gormley, John 23

  Graves, Robert 443

  Gray, Cecil 148

  Great James Street, nr Holborn 84

  Green, J. R. 378–9

  Greenbank, Annie 31

  Greenbank, Cissie see Armstrong, Jean

  Greenbank, George 31

  Greenbank, Isabel 31

  Greenbank, John 31

  Greenbank, John Allen 28, 31, 538(117)

  Greenbank, Margaret (Peggy) 1, 31–3, 368, 477–8, 526–7, 582(66)

  Briggflatts possibly written for 403–4, 581(27)

  rekindled relationship 403–8, 581(31)

  Greene, Robert 235–6

  Gregory, Dr T. E. 90

  Guardian newspaper 398, 401, 429, 438, 465, 471, 499, 511, 516

  see also Manchester Guardian

  Guedalla, Roger 134–5, 167, 429, 461, 463–4, 500

  Gunn, Thom 7, 376–7, 383, 385, 387

  H

  H. D. 197

  Amaranth 61

  Haas, Eugen 180–81

  Hafiz, BB’s translation 231

  Haire, Norman 548(189)

  Hymen, or the Future of Marriage 143–4

  Hale, William Gardner 132

  Hall, Donald 499

  Halliday, John, BB’s son-in-law 522

  Hamburger, Michael 398–9

  Hamilton, Ian/Edward Pygge 435–6

  Hamnett, Nina 134, 140–41, 149, 547–8(164, 167)

  Hamzavi 349–50

  Handley, John 31

  Hart, Matthew 18

  Hauptmann, Gerhart 172

  Hazhir, Abdolhosein, Prime Minister of Iran 325–6

  Hazlitt, William 14, 532(29), 537(77)

  health reform, campaigns for 25–6

  Heath, Edward 487

  Hembrough, Dr J. W. 25–6

  Hemingway, Ernest 99, 543–4(79)

  Moveable Feast, A 105

  They all made peace – What is peace? 559(454)

  Henshaw, Michael 511

  Heseltine, Arthur 94

  Heseltine, Philip see Warlock, Peter

  Higgins, Bertram 158, 207, 551(235)

  highwaymen at Luristan 301

  Hiler, Hilaire 248

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude 178

  Hindle, Wilfrid 284–5

  Hitler, Adolf 192, 218, 228, 230–31, 264, 284, 322, 488

  HMS Hampshire, sinking 43

  Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny 73

  Hobhouse, Stephen 71, 73–4

  Hobsbaum, Philip 190

  Hochschild, Adam 64, 67, 70

  Hodgkin, Jonathan Backhouse 56–7

  Hojoki (Chōmei) 194

  Holmes, Richard 428

  Hope, Francis 397

  Horace 189–90, 237, 442–3

  Hore-Belisha, Leslie 267

  Horesh, Ezra 315

  Horowitz, Michael 520–21

  Hound and Horn magazine 209, 210

  Howard, Richard 396

  Howell, Anthony 434

  Howson, Susan 81, 133, 135, 259–60, 540–41(10)

  Hull, Alan 592(47)

  Humphries, Barry (Edna Everage) 474

  Hutchinson, Alexander 450–51
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  Huxley, Aldous 148

  I

  Idema, Flt. Lt. 340–41

  Idonea yacht 299

  Il libro di Piera (Piera’s book) 180–81

  Il Mare 181, 208, 217, 561(485)

  Illustrated Chronicle 68

  Imagist movement 197–8

  International Marxist Group (IMG) 464

  International Socialists (IS) 464

  International Times 401, 429

  Iran 283–6

  assassinations 325–6

  bakers in Teheran 373–4

  BB’s journalism in Teheran 313, 327–36

  BB’s journey to Teheran 296

  BB’s work for British Embassy in Teheran 300–312

  Isherwood, Christopher 192

  Italy

  theme in Briggflatts II 369–70

  visit to 321, 324–5, 572–3(226)

  see also Bunting, Basil, HOMES

  J

  Jaffin, David 465

  Japan, poetry on 193–6

  Jay, Peter 430

  J.C. (Times Literary Supplement) 103

  Jeffery, Keith 287, 452

  Jenks, Jorian 178

  Joachim, Prince of Prussia 228–9

  John Bull 67

  John, Augustus 134

  Johnson, Carol 12

  Johnson, Wilko 432

  Johnstone, Air Vice-Marshall Sandy 279–80

  Jókai, Mór 158

  Jones, David 7–8, 531(1)

  The Anathemata 8

  Jones, Douglas 430

  Jones, Whitney 480–83

  Joyce, James 97, 123, 209, 213, 218, 427, 483, 541(12)

  Juana, Buntings’ servant in Tenerife 247–50

  K

  Kahane, Jacques 111, 544–5(100)

  Kahane, Matthew 111

  Kalavrezou, Ioli 129

  Karachi, Pakistan 276

  Kavanagh, Patrick 429

  Keats, John 432, 515

  Keddie, Nikki R. 333

  Kell, Richard 398

  Kenner, Hugh 319, 363, 401, 419, 438, 506

  Pound Era, The 198

  Sinking Island, A 7

  Kenner, Lisa 506–7

  Kerensky, Alexander, Russian Prime Minister 54

  Kermode, Frank 471

  Khan, Morteza Quli 311

  Khomeini, Ayatollah 489

  King James Bible, role in BB’s education 29

  Kingsmill, Hugh 241

  Kingston, Rodger 439, 586(198)

  Kipling, Rudyard 20, 341–2

  Absent-Minded Beggar, The 20

  Kitasono, Katue 292

  Kitchener, Field Marshall Horatio Herbert 43

  Kleinfeldt’s pub (the Fitzroy), London 35, 134, 148, 149

  Kleinzahler, August, student of BB 447–51, 496–7, 533(12), 587(198, 207)

  Knowles, Lilian 80–81

  Koch, Vivienne 320

  Kramer, Jane 425

  L

  La Bruyère, Jean de 552(282)

  La Conciergerie prison 107, 544(83)

  La Fontaine, Jean de 169

  La Santé prison 99, 101, 102, 107, 544(83)

  La Warr, 9th Earl de 267

  Ladysmith, relief of 19, 20–21

  Lambton, Nancy 333

  Lancet, The 115

  Larkin, Philip 474

  Lask, Thomas 429

  Laughlin, James 219, 247, 545(103)

 

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