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Lavignac, Albert 123–4
Lavrin, Janko 240
Lawrence, D. H. 533(12)
Women in Love 148
Layard, Sir Austen Henri 277
Leavis, F. R. 203
Leeds Mercury 540(163)
Lees Smith, Hastings 80
Léger, Fernand 96
Leighton Park School 29–30, 41–63
Leightonian, The 52, 54, 60, 62–3, 69, 70, 79, 133
reports on BB 547(162)
Leippert, James 193, 209, 212–13, 217, 219
BB’s letters to 107, 109
Levertov, Denise 419
Lewis, Peter 156, 393, 414, 431
Library Journal 429
Lightman, Ira 465
Lindisfarne Codex 378–9, 388–9
Lindsay, Jack 142–3
Lion & Crown 209, 212–13, 215
Listener The 428
Lit & Phil see Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society
Little Review 213
Litvinov, Maxim 85–6
Logan, Stephen 14–15
Loloi, Parvin 186
and Glyn Pursglove 231
London
BB’s attitude to 134–5, 138–9
poetry competition in 515–16
readings in 510
theme in Briggflatts II 367–8
London Review of Books 516, 520
London School of Economics (LSE) 38, 79–84, 87–91
Looker, Samuel J. 211–12
Louen, Baron Johannes Michael von 229, 230
see also Marie Auguste
Lowe, Mary see Bunting, Mary Elizabeth
Lowell, Robert 496–7
Loy, Joella 106
Loy, Mina 106, 188–9, 451, 527
Lucie-Smith, Edward 399–400, 541(30)
British Poetry since 1945 434
Lucretius 133, 306, 362, 383, 558(427)
Lyric Prize 170, 208
M
MacCarthy, Desmond 241
MacDiarmid, Hugh 7, 359–60, 474, 497, 502
death 503
More Collected Poems 383
MacDonald, Ramsay, British Prime Minister 64
McGonigal, James 593(71)
Mackay, Brent 444, 448
Macleod, Joseph Gordon 207
Macnee, Patrick 469
McNeill, John Charles 482
McPherson, Douglas 262
MacSweeney, Barry 352–3
Macy, John 141–2
Makin, Peter 122, 382–3, 547(149), 578(27)
Malherbe 514
Manchester Guardian 20, 266–7, 346, 348
Marie Auguste, Princess, Baroness von Louen 228–9, 230
Marot, Clément 127–8, 546(145)
Martin, Kingsley 39
Marvell, Andrew 158
Masefield, John 203
Masoliver, Juan Ramon 180–81
Mason, Michael 240
Matthews, Steven 546(144)
Matthias, John 434
Messer, Andrew, BB’s uncle 25, 117
Methil barrage 271–5
Meyer, Tom 478, 480, 481, 491–2, 493, 513
Middle East, security operations 286
Middleton, George 328–9
Milani, Abbas 284
Miles, Barry 511
Military Tribunal, Newcastle 64–6, 68
Milton, John 156
Mining, National Coal Board magazine 349
Moeran, Jack 148
Moncrieff, Charles Kenneth Scott 158
Monroe, Harriet 98, 132, 133, 178, 192, 193, 197, 212, 213
correspondence 166–7, 200–202, 204–5, 214
see also Poetry
Montgomery, Deirdre 411, 515
Montgomery, Stuart 397, 399, 499, 501, 515, 581(31)
falling out with Eric Mottram 466–7
Moore, George 175
Morden Tower 7, 356–7, 360, 395–6, 505
Morgan, Louise (Otto Theis’ wife) 158, 160–61, 169
Morrison, Herbert 332
Mortimer, Peter 501
Mortimer, Raymond 200
Mosaddeq, Mohammad 328, 329–33, 350, 576(344)
Moseley, Sydney A. 139
Mottram, Eric 79, 390, 393–4, 412–13, 414, 426, 432, 500, 501
as editor of Poetry Review 460–62, 476
falling out with Stuart Montgomery 466–7
letters to 107–8, 441, 448–9, 454, 455, 459
from Roger Guedalla 463–4
Mount Rosa, Italy 112
Muggeridge, Malcolm 240–42
Mullett, Peggy 131–2
Murray, Gilbert 69
Musical Times 146
Mussolini, Benito 178, 182
N
National Assistance 344
National Coal Board, Mining magazine 349
National Trust property 519
Nellist’s Nautical Academy 256–7
Nesbit, Edith 27, 534(23), 588(227)
New Age 82–3
New Departures 520
New English Weekly 217–18, 240–42, 558(429)
New Measure 430
New Statesman 397, 400, 429, 499
New York Times 429
New York Times Book Review 499
Newcastle, University of 454–5
BB’s fellowship 484–5
Newcastle Bach Choir 35
Newcastle barracks 539(142)
Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 34–5, 38
Newell Price, Tim 42, 43, 44, 45, 46
Nicholls, Peter 215
Niedecker, Lorine 193, 258, 271, 423–5, 427, 440–41, 583(107)
The Ballad of Basil 424–5
Wintergreen Ridge 423–4
Noble, William, 1st Baron Kirkley 545(115)
Norman, Charles 182
Norman, Philip 120, 402, 539(142)
North East Arts Association (NEAA) 431
North Mail 65
Northern Arts 494, 590(304)
BB’s presidency 484–6
Northumberland 24–5
Northumberland Education Committee 27
Northumbrian accent 11, 14–16
Nuttall, Jeff 463, 465, 499
O
Oakshott, Ronald 302
Objectivism 198–201, 205, 208–10
Observer 397, 398, 401, 499
Odysseus 430
Operation Ajax 333
Orage, Alfred Richard 82, 83, 541(15, 20)
Ormsby, Hilda 81
Orono, Maine 506–7
Osborne, Charles 462–3, 465, 520–21
Giving it Away: Memoirs of an Uncivil Servant 473–4
Osnaburgh Terrace, London 117
Outlook, The 133–4, 136–48, 149
Oxbridge 14, 59–60, 538(112), 564(567)
Oxford University Press 499–500, 501–2
P
Paideuma 248–9
Palatinate newspaper 432
Palestine 311
Paris, Matthew 129
Paris Review 358
Parker, Lord Justice 585(170)
Parsons, Clere 207
Patchen, Kenneth 338
Payne, Robert 313–15
Pearson, Professor Norman Holmes 337–8
Penberthy, Jenny 523
Persian
ancient dialect 277
translation 305–6, 500–501
see also Ferdowsi
Peterhouse College, Cambridge, rejection 58
Pickard, Tom 72, 312, 331, 359–60, 411, 460, 490, 495
BB’s 80th birthday celebrations 505
on BB’s eyesight 426–7
on T. S. Eliot 342
fees for poets 433–4
introduction to BB 355–7
BB’s letters to 72, 315, 440, 448, 527
High on the Walls 12
proposed biography 6
publication of The Spoils 396
review of Briggflatts 400
Pickthall, Marmaduke 82
Piera’s book (Il libro di Piera) 180–81
; Pitkethly, Lawrence 219
Pocket Poet series 262
Poetry 98, 132, 133, 188, 197, 339, 386, 398
editorship of British number 200–203, 206–10
publication of Villon 208
Poetry Fellowship 431
Poetry International summer festival 473–4
Poetry Review 458–9, 460–62, 499
inclusion of At Briggflatts Meeting House 476–7
Poetry Society 459, 484, 501
Battle of Earls Court 461–6
BB as President 12, 458, 459–68
celebrations of BB’s 75th birthday 475–7
Poli, Bernard, letter to 104
political crisis in Britain 487–9
Pope, Arthur Upham 338
Pound, Dorothy née Shakespear 83–4, 170, 172, 183, 292
letters see Bunting, Basil, CORRESPONDENCE
Pound, Ezra 8, 17, 75, 82–4, 108, 115, 219
accent 532(33)
alterations to Villon 547(150)
appeal for funding for BB 227
on W. H. Auden 207
Bourtai’s revelations about 564(589)
on Douglas Geoffrey Bridson 211
on BB 17–18, 184–5, 197
BB’s essay on 217–18
on Chomei at Toyama 193, 195–6
contribution to Piera’s book 180
death and tributes 469–72
discovery of manuscripts 182
Fascism 178–9, 259–62
friendship with Ford Madox Ford 96, 97, 99
humorous poetry written for 196–7
Imagist movement 197–8
influence on BB’s works 397–9, 429, 499
letters see Bunting, Basil, CORRESPONDENCE
letter-writing style 555(353)
at the Lit & Phil 35
mental health 291–5, 322–4
mentioned in introductory note to Briggflatts 362
Mermaid Theatre tribute 471
music in poetry 121–2, 123
on Objectivism 198–201, 205
in Paris 94
in Rapallo, Italy 109–10, 112, 172–3
reading voice 15
response to On the fly-leaf of Pound’s Cantos 306–7
sought after by James Leippert for The Lion & Crown 212–13
on The Spoils 346–8
symposium on 418
translations of classics 132–3
on Villon 130–31, 208
on François Villon 119
visit to BB in prison 101, 107
WORKS
Active Anthology 210–12, 214, 262, 329, 559(454)
Canto 23 109
Canto 47, comparison with Briggflatts 376–7, 387
Collected Early Poems 471
Guide to Kulchur 242
Homage to Sextus Propertius 122, 132, 217, 561(487)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (EP and Eliot proposed) 219
Notes on Elizabethan Classicists 132–3
Pisan Cantos 293
Profile 210
Pound, Homer, EP’s father 173, 182–3
Pound, Isabel, EP’s mother 173, 182–3, 220
Pound, Mary (Barrati) 294
Pound, Omar, EP’s son 185, 289, 292, 294, 471, 500–501
Arabic & Persian Poems 185
Gorby and the Rats 500–501
parentage 564(589)
Powell, Dawn 150
Prison System Enquiry Committee 73
Prohibition in the US 167–8
Prominent Literati Arriving at Rapallo to Pass Winter Season 179–80
Prussian nobility 228–9
Pygge, Edward/Ian Hamilton 435–6
Pym-Randall Press 416–17
Q
Qashqai, Nasser Khan 316, 572(200)
Quaker movement 538(122), 579(50)
attitudes to education 59–60
attitudes to war 61–5
in Briggflatts 390–94
foundation 30–31
Quartermain, Meredith 523
Quartermain, Peter 11, 18, 271–2, 320, 346, 440, 495–6, 523
children’s relationship with BB 494, 586(189)
letters to 441, 445–6, 469, 474–5, 509
Quasha, George 434–5
Queen 429
R
Rachewiltz, Mary de, EP’s daughter 220, 319, 418
Raine, Craig 499
Raleigh, Sir Walter 76, 130, 194
Rawson, Wyatt 430
Raymond, John 398
Razmara, Sepahbod Haj Ali, Prime Minister of Iran 325
Read, Herbert 207, 399
Reagan, Ronald 419
Redcliffe-Maud, Lord 485–6
Regan, Robert 429
Regent’s Park, London 113
Renwick, George 65, 68
Review, The, satire on BB 435–6
Reza Shah 284
Richards, George 323
Rickword, C. H. 157–8, 551(235)
Rickword, Edgell 207, 551(235)
Ridley, Geordie 24
Rivista di Roma 115
Robbins, Lionel 38, 80–81, 84, 88, 90, 111, 117, 541(26)
BB’s request for a loan 146
connected with The Outlook 133
falling out with EP 259–60
BB’s letters to 84–7, 93
Roberts, Michael 202
Robson, Gladys 581–2(42)
Roehm, Ernst 230
Roerich Museum 227
Roosevelt, Archie 292, 294
Rosyth, Scotland 271–5
Rougetel, Sir John le 289, 333
Rowe, Helen see Egli, Helen
Rudge, Olga (EP’s mistress) 181, 182, 322–3, 324, 507
Rudolf, Anthony 402
Russell, Lawrence 451
Russell, Peter 322
S
Sa‘di, translations 305–6
Sa‘ed, Mohammed, Prime Minister of Iran 316
Salome 410–11
Santa Barbara 416–20
Santé prison, Paris 99, 101, 102, 107, 544(83)
saqis 567–8(39)
Lisa Kenner as 506–7
Sassoon, Siegfried 113
Saviotti, Gino 180–81
Sayers, Dorothy 238
Scarlatti, Alessandro, discovered manuscripts 182
Schafer, R. Murray 181
Schmidt, Michael 204
Schoenberg, Arnold 145–7, 372
Scholes, Percy 549(209)
Scotsman 397, 400
Second World War 266–86
willingness to enlist 264
see also Bunting, Basil, WARS
Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) 283–4
Secretary to Harry Barnes MP, employment as 91–2
Seed, John 17
Segovia, Andrés 147
Séménoff, E. 97
Serly, Tibor 162, 181
death 503, 506
Seymour-Smith, Martin 397, 400
Shadingfield 353–4
Shakespear, Dorothy see Pound, Dorothy
Shakespeare, William
As You Like It 126
BB’s rewritings 254–5
excluded from The Anthology 575
Share, Don 186
and Christian Wiman 386
Shaw, George Bernard 37–8
Shayer, Michael 289, 475, 490
visit to BB 525–6
Shelley, John 283–4
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 17, 173–4
Shinfield village, Bunting’s report on 53–4
Shoemaker, Jack 427
Sibelius, Jean 549(202)
Sicily 280–81, 283
Sidney, Sir Philip 514
Simms, Colin 502, 518
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver 440
Simonside Hills, Northumberland 151–2
Simpson, Wallis 250, 252
Sinclair, May 96, 97
Skelton, Robin 443, 444–7, 449–51
Skipsey, Joseph 3, 25, 36–7, 52, 455–6, 536(55)
accent 587(225)
Smith, Derek 517
socialism 37–8, 45
Society of Friends see Quaker movement
Soheili, Ali, Prime Minister of Iran 326
Sokolova, Lydia 140
Southall, Eric 59, 69
Spanish Civil War 243
Spanish customs 248–9
Spectator 239, 240
Spender, Stephen 241, 516
Spenser, Edmund 472, 481, 514
Sraffa, Angelo 81
Sraffa, Piero 81, 540–41(10)
Stallworthy, Jon 434
Stand 400
Stansill, Peter 416, 428–9
State University of New York (SUNY) 412–14, 417, 441
Steiner, George 402
Stephenson, Ernest Cooper Apperley 28, 34, 62, 535(45)
death, 538(117)
Stevenson, D. 539(128)
Stokes, Richard 332
stonemasonry 365, 535(44)
Stothard, Peter 328, 574(263)
Straker, William 25
Strang, Sir William 333
Ström, Frederick 86
Stuart, Brian 240
Summerfield, Geoffrey 434
Sunday Times 241, 397, 398, 399–400, 402, 429
Surrealism 98
Swann, Billy, BB’s cousin 144
swearing 554(325)
Sweden, visit to, 1920 86
Swedish Punch 85
Swift, J. 589(275)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles 96, 110, 132, 438–9, 515, 587(222)
T
Tagore, Rabindranath 227
Tarasque magazine 400
Taylor, Henry Osborn 148
Teheran, Iran 283–6
bakers in 373–4
BB’s journalism in 313, 327–36
BB’s journey to 296
BB’s work for British Embassy 300–312
Tenerife, Canary Isles 220–43
relationship with Juana 247–50
Terrell, Carroll F. 80, 83, 101–2, 150, 151–2, 480, 483, 494–5, 532(34)
biography of BB 6
visit to BB 74–5
Thatcher, Margaret 11–12, 488–9
The Friend, Quaker magazine 430
The Times 312–13, 320–21, 326, 428, 435
depicted in Briggflatts III 373
BB’s journalism in Teheran 327–36
BB’s letters to 452–3
Theis, Otto 133–4, 150, 160
see also Morgan, Louise (his wife)
Thistle boat 252–6
Thomas Reid & Son 348–9
Thomas, D. M. 401
Thomas, Edgar 139
Three Essays 215
Time Out 500
Times Literary Supplement 103, 398, 401, 429, 499–500
Tomazos, Criton 465
Tomlinson, Charles 396, 398, 399, 400–401
Toynbee, Philip 499
transatlantic review 95, 97, 99, 103, 105, 107
transition in Britain, 1900 21–2
Trevelyan, Philip 518
Tribune 399, 499
Tunney, Gene 210
Turnbull, Gael 15, 438, 446, 480, 494, 496
accounts of BB 272, 281, 289, 404–7, 427
contact with Peggy Greenbank 477–8
at BB’s funeral 526–7
loan to Sima Bunting 415
visit to BB 351–3
Turnbull, Jill 404