Ardent Spirits

  sports participation by, 23–24

  U.S. election of Eisenhower and, 199

  voyage to England with, 11, 13, 15, 22–23, 24

  Richardson, Hamilton, 23, 154–55

  Richardson, Ralph, 263

  Richardson, Samuel, 98

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 40, 110, 111–12, 114

  Roberts, Dorothy (Dot), 325–26, 356

  Roberts, John, 132–33, 345

  Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti), 389

  Rodwell, Lida, 221, 223

  Rodwell, Wilton Egerton (Boots), 221–23

  Rome, Italy

  trip to with Jim Griffin, 74, 75–93

  trip to with Michael Jordan, 113, 115–20

  Room with a View, A (Forster), 69

  Rosacoke (character), see Long and Happy Life, A (Price)

  Ross, Martin, 128

  Rotterdam, Holland, 175

  Rudenstine, Neil, 59

  Russell, Diarmuid, 57, 124, 140, 154, 200, 202, 216–17, 238, 271, 294, 323, 374–75, 376, 377, 378, 385–88

  Russell, George, 386

  Saint, Eva Marie, 12

  St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University, 97, 129, 147, 148, 160, 220

  St. Mark’s Cathedral, Venice, 107, 108, 112–13

  St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, 85

  “Saints in Caesar’s Household, The” (Tyler), 323

  Salome (Strauss), 105–06

  Salzburg, Austria, 171–73, 174

  Samson Agonistes (Milton), 41, 86, 97, 179, 197–98, 309

  San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, 86

  Santa Maria in Galera (Galeria), Italy, 118–19

  Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, 76, 78–79

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 108

  Savage, Jane, 109–11, 112, 113–15, 135, 169–73, 172 (illus.), 250, 251

  “Scars” (Price), 187

  Schiavonetti, Luigi, 354–55

  Schlesinger, John, 131

  Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth, 159, 171

  Schwartz, Alan U., 377–78, 379–80

  “Scholar Gypsy, The” (Arnold), 134

  Scofield, Paul, 49

  Scream, The (Munch), 164

  Sears, John, 144

  seasonal affective disorder (SAD), 47

  Selective Service System, 85, 168, 301–05

  Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 49, 50 (illus.), 62, 65

  Shakespeare, William, 317, 371

  lectures on, 98, 128, 157, 158

  productions of plays of, 49–51, 62, 65, 128, 231, 235, 262, 265, 280, 281–82, 284, 369

  Shakespeare the Thinker (Nuttall), 246

  Shaw, George Bernard, 125

  “Shield of Achilles, The” (Auden), 138, 229

  short stories, doctorate research on, 258–59

  short stories by Price

  agent Russell and, 57, 124, 154, 200, 202, 216–17, 238, 374–75, 377

  Cecil’s comments on, 125–26

  Chatto’s contract offer for book of, 217

  civil-rights movement in the South and effect on, 67

  desire to be a good writer and, 71–72

  early stories written at Oxford, 55, 57–58, 161–63, 182, 311

  father’s death and themes of, 55, 58, 66

  Spender’s support for, 201–03, 216

  Styron’s support for, 124, 146–47, 238, 329–30

  trip to Italy and, 68, 70–71

  Welty’s evaluation of, 55–57

  writing of, 223, 295, 305–06

  Sidney, Philip, 279

  Sieverts, Frank, 49

  Sistine Chapel, Rome, 87–88, 117–18

  Smith, Grover, 360

  Soames, Michael, 100

  social change

  civil-rights movement in the South and, 67–68

  postwar in England, 60

  social life at Merton College, Oxford

  commemoration ball at, 62–64

  dancing at, 63

  friends and student life at, 58–61, 98–101

  plays and theatrical events at, 49–51, 54

  Somerville, Edith, 128

  Source of Light, The (Price), 97

  South

  Civil War and, 16–17

  Price’s background in, 42, 60, 61, 65, 133, 195, 215, 224

  racial violence and civil-rights movement in, 67–68

  Speaight, John, 98–100, 99 (illus.), 245, 261

  Spender, Humphrey, 287–88

  Spender, Lizzie, 203–04, 206, 221, 222 (illus.)

  Spender, Matthew, 203–04, 206, 222 (illus.)

  Spender, Natasha (Litvin), 203, 210, 220, 221

  Spender, Stephen, 40, 43, 107–08, 129, 142, 206 (illus.), 211–12, 228, 229, 233, 344 (illus.)

  family of, 203–204, 206, 272, 286–87

  friendship with, 220, 256, 276, 390, 391

  lecture tours in United States by, 344, 345–47, 350

  letters of, 290–91

  sexual outlook of, 201, 209–10, 271–72

  social activities with, 230–31, 235–36, 272–73, 290

  stays at homes of, 205–13, 220–21, 248–49

  support for Price’s writing from, 201–03, 216, 234–35

  Spenser, Edmund, 157, 279

  sports

  Oxford University and, 66

  Rhodes Scholars and participation in, 23–24

  Starkie, Martin, 142

  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 175

  Stevenson, Adlai, 199

  Stignani, Ebe, 159

  Stockholm, Sweden, 166

  Stonehenge, England, 145

  Strachey, Lytton, 126

  Stratford-upon-Avon, 49, 50, 62, 128

  Strauss, Richard, 105–06

  Stravinsky, Igor, 136, 138, 140

  Street, Mr. and Mrs. A. W., 103–04

  Stringer, Wendy, 148 (illus.)

  Strong Are Lonely, The (Hochwälder), 65

  Styron, William, 124, 146–47, 238, 329–30

  Sutherland, Joan, 220, 273

  Sutherland, John, 290–91

  Swansea, Wales, 181, 182–83

  Sweden, 166–67

  Switzerland, 105, 120

  Tagliavini, Ferruccio, 159

  Tamplin, Ronald, 98, 199, 232

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 284

  teaching

  Gardner’s career at Oxford University in, 96

  moral expectations of teachers, 347–49

  Price’s desire for a career in, 71, 255, 295–96

  writing in conflict with, 296

  Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 262, 265, 371

  tennis, 23, 154–55

  Tennyson, Alfred, 193, 279

  Terry, Ellen, 263, 265

  Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy), 152, 259

  Thebom, Blanche, 220

  thesis, Duke University, 24

  thesis, Oxford University

  examination and approval of, 270–71

  Gardner’s meetings on, 97–98, 124–25, 197–98, 245

  Milton as subject of, 29, 36, 41, 70, 97–98, 130–31, 188, 289, 309

  second term focus on, 196, 213, 216, 219, 220

  writing of, 223, 241, 246, 248, 249–50

  Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 264

  Thornton, Macon, 101–02

  Thurn und Taxis family, 111, 112, 114

  “Thyrsis” (Arnold), 134

  Till, Emmett, 16

  Till, Mr. (Surgeon), 51–52

  Times Literary Supplement, 131

  Tintagel, England, 152–54

  Tintoretto, 107

  Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 50, 51, 235, 237, 280

  Tivoli, Copenhagen, 168

  Tokunaga, Osamu, 271–72

  Tolkien, J. R. R., 137, 184, 186, 258

  Tolstoy, Leo, 126, 127, 132, 190, 259, 341

  Toscanini, Arturo, 214–16

  Towers of Trebizond, The (Macaulay), 212

  Toys in the Attic (Hellman), 351

  Traxler, Vieri and Nicoletta, 90–92, 118–19

  Trieste, Italy, 110, 111, 112


  Trilling, Lionel, 211–12

  Trinity College, Oxford University, 60, 319

  Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), 139

  “Troubled Sleep” (Price), 313, 373–74

  Turner, Arlin, 381–82

  Tuve, Rosemond, 140

  Twain, Mark, 17

  Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 50, 51, 280

  Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare and Fletcher), 231

  Tyler, Anne, 318 (illus.), 319, 320, 321–22, 323–24

  Tynan, Kenneth, 235, 280

  Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 54, 71, 120

  Umberto II, king of Italy, 88

  Uncle Vanya (Chekhov), 276

  Unquiet Grave, The (Connolly), 207–08

  Ure, Mary, 49

  Van Gogh, Vincent, 175, 177

  Vatican Museum, 85–86, 117

  Venice, Italy, 107–09, 112

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 158–59, 214, 259

  Vermeer, Johannes, 175, 176, 177, 205

  Vickers, Jon, 220

  Victor, Thomas, 44 (illus.)

  Vigeland, Gustav, 164

  Vikings, 165

  Virginia Quarterly Review, The, 124

  Visconti, Luchino, 389

  Volkswagen car

  learning to drive, 150–51

  local drives using, 134–35, 147, 148 (illus.), 228, 278–79

  purchase of, 102, 113, 125

  road trip on the Continent with, 158–77

  shipping to the United States, 288–89

  tax problems with, 178–79

  Wagner, Richard, 139, 214, 220, 259, 273

  Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 65

  Wales, 181–83

  walking as recreation

  at Oxford University, 24, 53–54

  in Rome, 76, 81–83, 88

  Wallace, Irving, 257

  Walter, Bruno, 212

  Ward, Charles, 252

  Warner, Rex, 220

  “Warrior Princess Ozimba, The” (Price), 55, 66, 182, 295, 311

  Watson, Katherine, 190–91

  Waugh, Evelyn, 60

  Welitsch, Ljuba, 106

  Wells Cathedral, England, 261

  Welty, Eudora, 55–57, 56 (illus.), 71, 140, 258, 323, 386–87

  Wesley (character), see Long and Happy Life, A (Price)

  Westrate, Kees, 189

  Wharton, Edith, 315

  White, E. B., 315

  Whole New Life, A (Price), 1–2

  Wilde, Oscar, 226, 263, 279

  Williams, Edgar, 26, 224

  Williams, Emlyn, 256

  Williams, Tennessee, 49

  Wilson, Edmund, 352

  Wilson, Elena, 352

  Wilson, F. P., 42, 45, 285

  Wimbledon, England, 23, 154–55, 158

  Windsor Great Park, England, 147, 148 (illus.)

  Wolfenden Report, 277

  Wolfit, Donald, 65

  Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (Vermeer), 176

  Woolf, Leonard, 207

  Woolf, Virginia, 126, 127, 207, 256, 258, 291, 315

  Wordsworth, William, 279, 380

  World War I, 27, 128, 131, 286

  World War II, 13, 17, 26, 34, 59, 88, 89, 92, 133, 166, 229

  World Within World (Spender), 201, 210, 217, 221

  Worth, Irene, 272–73, 350

  Wright, Adrian, 127

  Wuthering Heights (Brontë), 285

  Wyatt, Thomas, 157

  Wynyard, Diana, 49

  Yeats, W. B., 126, 380, 386

  York, England, 159–60

  York Minster, England, 159–60, 261

  Ziegner, Hermann, 376

  Zuleika Dobson (Beerbohm), 27

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