In Memory of W. B. Yeats 1002;
Letter to R. H. S. Crossman, Esq. 934;
New Year Letter 1013;
Night Mail II 73;
The Orators 801, II 139;
Poems (“Nor was that final”) 742;
Spain 1036, II 486
Augustine, St.: Confessions 474, 520, 588, 680, 736, 907, 1121
Babbitt, Irving: Literature, Culture, Religion 709; The Masters of Modern French Criticism 424, 428, 502, 539, 544, 576, 681, 778, 922, 967, 999, 1081–82, 1095, 1115;
The New Laokoon 454, 499, 1098
Bach, Johann Sebastian: Cantata 25 948
Bacon, Francis: 919, 1087; The Advancement of Learning 482;
Descriptio Globi Intellectualis 941;
Sylva Sylvarum 486
Banville, Théodore de: 1097, 1110
Barham, Richard: The Ingoldsby Legends 382, 1070
Barker, George: 372, 890–91, II 47
Barnes, Djuna: TSE’s preface to Nightwood 1029
Barnfield, Richard: The Complaint of Poetrie 920; An Ode 628
Barrie, J. M.: The Admirable Crichton 1216; Dear Brutus 813;
Peter Pan 645
Barth, Karl: The Epistle to the Romans 826, 956, 985
Bartók, Béla: String Quartets 895
Bassiano, Princess: see Caetani, Marguerite Bateson, F. W.: 487, 618
Baudelaire, Charles: 73, 355, 358, 360–61, 453; praised by Laforgue 386, 1093;
“the sordidly realistic and the phantasmagoric” 415;
“Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!” 620;
Anywhere Out of the World 946, 949;
Au lecteur 620, 1116;
Les Bienfaits de la Lune 1149;
Bohémiens en voyage 749;
Causerie 411;
De l’essence du rire 653;
L’Héautontimorouménos 1159, 1170;
L’Invitation au voyage 750;
Le Joujou du Pauvre 421;
Une Martyre 623;
Mon Cœur mis à nu 385, 444, 489, 814;
Les Phares 1103;
Les Sept vieillards 613;
Spleen (“J’ai plus de souvenirs que si j’avais mille ans”) 1106;
Spleen (“Je suis comme le roi”) 1172;
Le Spleen: Pluviôse 389;
La Vie antérieure 529;
Le Voyage 770–71, 776–77
BBC: broadcasts of TSE’s poems II 38, 43–44, 164, 325, 622
Beach, Sylvia: 883
Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher: The Coxcomb 766; A King and No King 1145;
The Maid’s Tragedy 398, 492, 499, 635, 677, 747, 1186;
Philaster 607, 635;
Wit without Money 1034
Becket, St. Thomas: II 183; “real martyr” 767
Beddoes, Thomas: Pneumatic Institute 533
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell: Death’s Jest-Book 531, 593, 610, 633, 635, 770, 831; Fragments of “The Last Man” 503
Beethoven, Ludwig van: “to get beyond music” 736; Coriolan 819;
String Quartet in A minor (Op. 132) 895
Beg, Mirza Murad Ali: 843–44
Bell, Clive: 431, 569, 655, 1020; distributes copies of Prufrock and Other Observations 368;
verse envelopes addressed to II 159–60
Benlowes, Edward: “struggles of the human soul” 533; Theophila’s Love-Sacrifice 948–49
Bennett, Arnold: likes The Hippopotamus 521; advises on Sweeney Agonistes 790;
The Old Wives’ Tale 599, 813
Benson, A. C.: Edward FitzGerald 470; Land of Hope and Glory II 60
Benson, E. F.: 650
Bentley, E. C.: Baseless Biography II 190
Bentley, Nicolas: Practical Cats drawings II 49–50, 190
Bergson, Henri: “emphasis on life” 529; “philosophy about intuition” 1099;
on Aristotle 390;
“epidemic of Bergsonism” 416;
the absolute 450;
“spider-like figure” 457, 482;
“entirely a Bergsonian” 579;
An Introduction to Metaphysics 393, 1094;
L’Energie spirituelle 702, 1013;
Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience 1086;
L’Evolution créatrice 381, 390, 723, 938, 1087, 1094, 1118–19, 1125;
Mind-Energy 419;
Matière et mémoire 1085, 1099
Berlioz, Hector: 509
Betjeman, John: II 62, 220, 230, 233, 235
Bhagavad-Gita: 976–77, 980–81, 1056, 1134, 1159–60
Bible, the: language of the New English 743; harmonies of the gospels 989
OLD TESTAMENT: Amos 391, 681; 1 Chronicles 723;
2 Chronicles 523;
Daniel 719, 765, 938, 1136;
Deuteronomy 512, 737, 873, 1140;
Ecclesiastes 72, 382, 606, 695, 697, 744, 907, 930;
Exodus 402, 869, 1092, 1170;
Ezekiel 72, 606, 653, 739, 746, 837, 878, 1171;
Genesis 532, 607, 683, 731, 732, 746, 833, 871, 875–76, 974, 999;
Isaiah 389, 411, 473, 478–79, 525, 606, 694, 704, 752, 766, 830, 870, 872, 947, 1002;
Jeremiah 411, 479, 697, 874;
Job 376, 387, 390, 399, 429, 453, 474, 477, 515, 523, 737, 836, 837, 1165, 1077, 1144, II 219;
Joel 736, 752, 1125;
Jonah 743;
1 Kings 742, II 146;
2 Kings 523, II 65;
Lamentations 767;
Leviticus 524, 871;
Micah 751;
Nehemiah 871, 873;
Numbers 718, 1170;
Proverbs 387, 417, 1135, 1137, 1168;
Psalms 387, 390, 477, 509, 512, 515, 523,524, 652, 688–89, 734, 736, 738, 744–45, 756, 836–37, 873, 876–77, 957, 970, 982, 1094;
Samuel 391, 737;
Song of Solomon 512, 525, 1144, 1165;
Zechariah 681
NEW TESTAMENT: Acts 474, 782, 1037, 1173; Colossians 749;
1 Corinthians 618, 685, 688, 778, 878, 1136;
2 Corinthians 879;
Ephesians 749, 765, 871;
Hebrews 1001;
James 411, 837;
John 389, 536, 645, 687, 745, 751, 767, 812, 836, 922, 942, 1038, 1121, 1138, 1140, 1160;
Luke 393, 476, 601, 687, 688, 693, 766, 767, 873, 972, 984, 1092, 1136; II 64, 145, 219;
Mark 391, 601, 767, 871;
Matthew 391, 394, 404, 474, 523, 537, 669, 734, 747, 764, 767, 870, 875, 879, 922, 1007, 1038, 1042, 1167, 1192, II 65;
Philippians 709;
Revelation 382, 429, 523, 525, 613, 624, 689, 764, 941, 971, 982, 1136;
Romans 685, 777, 878;
Thessalonians 879
APOCRYPHA: Ecclesiasticus 719, 745; History of Susanna (Book of Daniel) 937–38;
1 Maccabees II 228
Binyon, Laurence: 407, 996; translation of Dante 579, 726, 755, 831, 880, 995–96, 1005
Blake, William: 514, 616, 845, 884, 1220, II 376, 458; and Yeats 935;
early poems 1064;
Auguries of Innocence 1196;
The Book of Thel 1121;
The Clod & the Pebble 1220;
Epilogue: To the Accuser Who is the God of This World 940;
I am no Homer’s Hero 391, 408;
I asked a thief to steal me a peach 398;
I laid me down upon a bank 515;
I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea 1014;
Jerusalem 918, 935;
Laughing Song 839;
The Little Black Boy 1089–90;
London 420, 688, 696, 1185;
Love to faults is always blind 396;
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 793;
The Mental Traveller 390;
Milton 1199, II 181;
Mock on 1138;
Night 839;
A Poison Tree 479;
The Sick Rose 745;
To the Accuser Who is the God of This World 940;
To the Jews 514;
The Tyger 475, 856, II 143;
When the voices
of children 851
Blast: 1164; and Portrait of a Lady 400;
planned third issue 467;
The Enemy of the Stars 473, 918;
and Lady Mond 510;
bless and blast 515–16;
Pound in 673;
“puritanical principles” 1114–15, 1154;
Gaudier-Brzeska 1164
Blavatsky, Helena: 512–13
Bolo: derivations of name II 247–48
Bonaparte, Napoleon: Arc de Triomphe 822; Légion d’honneur 831;
“Italian or a Frenchman?” 886
Bosch, Hieronymus: 696
Bosschère, Jean de: Homere Mare Habite sa Maison de Planches 391, 518, 678
Bottome, Phyllis: II 223
Bowen, Elizabeth: II 235
Bowra, Maurice: II 198
boxing: 647; Sweeney’s former profession 498;
Jack Johnson 545;
TSE’s lessons 800
Brace, Donald: II 421, 429
Brackett, Joseph: Simple Gifts 735
Braddon, Mary Elizabeth: Lady Audley’s Secret 393, 397, 399, 405, 473, 624
Bradley, F. H.: “no capacity for the abstruse” 392; the Absolute 449;
Appearance and Reality 370, 408, 419, 435–36, 511, 532, 703, 723, 746, 928, 953, 972, 980, 1019, 1042, 1070, 1083, 1085, 1138, 1140, 1159, 1161;
Essays on Truth and Reality 388, 907, 1120;
Ethical Studies 419, 668, 735, 746, 907, 923, 956, 968, 1030;
The Principles of Logic 1139
Bramhall, John: 524
Barnfield, Richard: 628, 920
Bridges, Robert: Flycatchers 544; London Snow 1006
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre 771; Villette 536, 1010
Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights 670
Brooke, Rupert: 618, 957, 1002; The Fish 494, 752;
Fragment 764;
Letters from America 601, 605;
The Old Vicarage 407
Brooks, Van Wyck: 443; The Wine of the Puritans 381, 403–404, 408, 532, 1053, 1076, 1091, 1126, 1163
Brown, T. E.: 500
Browne, E. Martin: II 54, 70, 179, 469; directs The Rock 865–66
Browne, Thomas: The Garden of Cyrus 1034–35; Pseudodoxia Epidemica 480, 682;
Religio Medici 948
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Aurora Leigh 394, 738, 1039; Bianca Among the Nightingales 376, 541;
Casa Guidi Windows 1127;
The Lost Bower 1018;
A Musical Instrument II 258
Browning, Robert: II 291; “more of a hindrance than a help” 355;
studied by TSE “with much profit” 357;
Andrea del Sarto 912;
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came 694;
Christmas-Eve 1167;
An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician 690;
Fifine at the Fair 1120;
The Flight of the Duchess 937, 1181, II 594;
Home-Thoughts, from Abroad 1001;
How It Strikes a Contemporary 493;
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix II 266;
Inapprehensiveness 646;
The Inn Album 1125;
The Last Ride Together 1120–21;
Meeting at Night II 594;
One Word More 1170;
Paracelsus 1214;
Pauline 1146;
Pippa Passes 1131, 1201;
Porphyria’s Lover 1120–21, 1145;
Proteus 696;
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister II 281;
A Toccata of Galuppi’s 488, 493;
Waring 1104
Bruèys, David Augustin de: L’Avocat Patelin 1134
Buber, Martin: “Great Man” II 156
Buchan, John: The Thirty-Nine Steps 661, 1013
Buddhism: 699–700, 807; The Fire Sermon 75, 640–41, 680;
and Christianity 709, 976–77, 1160, 1166–67.
For Buddhism in Translations, see Warren, Henry Clark
Bunyan, John: The Heavenly Foot-Man 392
Butler, Samuel: Hudibras 523
Burbank, Luther: horticulturalist 487
Burns, Robert: “modest claim” as writer of songs II 172; Auld Lang Syne II 174;
Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast II 173;
A Red, Red Rose 1145;
Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation II 195;
Tam o’Shanter II 173, 174;
Tam Sampson’s Elegy II 174;
To a Mouse 1208;
The Twa Dogs II 174
Byron, George Gordon, Lord: 1070, 1087, 1204; Beppo 1070, 1097, 1102, II 283;
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage 494, 496–97, 511, 752, 1097, 1202;
The Corsair 1122;
The Destruction of Sennacherib 1148;
Hours of Idleness 769;
Ode on Venice 653;
The Waltz 1102
DON JUAN: I – 423, 1128, 1151; II – 615, 1098, (II) 274;
IV – 731;
IX – 395, 531, 653, 1086, 1111;
X – 1127;
XI – 1119, 1128, 1132, 1147, (II) 66;
XII – 518, 536;
XIII – 395, 1095;
XV – 1020, 1059, 1100;
XVI – 930, 1097, 1110, 1212
Caetani, Marguerite (Princess di Bassiano): II 417; funds The Criterion 712–13;
and Ash-Wednesday 728–29, 739, II 422;
and Coriolan 817, 830;
commissions Anabase translation II 135–37, 146;
Commerce II 136
Caldecott, Ralph: 851
Calverley, C. S.: “Hic Vir, Hic Est” 397; Lines on Hearing the Organ 425–26
Campbell, Roy: “Macspaunday” II 199; Tristan da Cunha 780, 961–62
Campion, Thomas: There is a garden in her face 936
Canaletto: perspective of 494
Cape Ann: 753, 854–55, 959, 963
Carlyle, Thomas: Novalis 432–33
Carmichael, Alexander: Carmina Gadelica II 172
Carpenter, Edward: Towards Democracy 606, 615, 651–52, 695, 704
Carroll, Lewis: II 39, 151; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 392, 408, 426, 438, 442, 653, 847, 909, 1034, 1110;
The Hunting of the Snark II 60;
Jabberwocky 749, 1208, II 59, 60, 144, 180;
Misch-mash 647;
Sylvie and Bruno 422, 522, 717, II 151;
Through the Looking-Glass 381, 749, 1034, 1068, 1072, 1197, II 214, 268, 275;
The Walrus and the Carpenter II 183, 278
Castro, Françoise de: Entretien avec T. S. Eliot 459
cats: Asparagus see Gus; Big Bravo II 40, 57; Bustopher Jones II 71;
Carbucketry II 52;
Dick Whittington’s II 70, 165;
Dirghakarna II 38;
Dolabella II 54;
Ermyntrude (formerly Gertrude) II 54;
Great Rumpuscat II 65;
Grizabella II 52, 624;
Growltiger II 44, 58;
Gus II 49, 56;
James Buz-James II 74;
Jellicle II 38, 43, 44, 54, 57, 61;
Jellylorum II 55;
Lilliecat II 51–52;
Macavity II 66–68;
Mirza Murad Ali Beg II 52, 57;
Mister Mistoffelees II 65;
Morgan II 43, 75–76, 639–41;
Mungojerrie II 62;
Noilly Prat II 52;
Old Deuteronomy II 63;
Old Gumbie II 40, 57;
Persian 839;
Pettipaws II 74;
Porpentine 847, II 40, 52;
Pouncival II 52;
The Practical Cat II 38, 40;
Rumpelteazer II 62;
Rum Tum Tugger II 60–61;
Sillabub II 52;
Skimbleshanks II 72–73;
Tantamile (also Tantomile) II 52;
Tumblecat II 40;
Wiskuscat II 52;
Woolly Bear 839, 844;
see also headnote to The Naming of Cats.
Cats (musical): II 50–53
Catullus: (61) “io Hymen Hymenæe” 1179
Cavalcanti, Guido: 533; Ballata. In Exile at Saranza 733–34, 743, 836;
Canzone: He laments the Presumption and Incontinence of his Youth 1134;
To Guido Orlandi 1086
Chainaye, Hector: 382
Chaplin, Charlie: II 203, 253
Chapman, Frank M: Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America 76, 691–92, 693, 854–55
Chapman, George: 813, 1099; Bussy d’Ambois 478, 481, 491–92 (inaccurate text), 914;
The Conspiracy of Charles, Duke of Byron 479, 480, 482, 619, 626;
The Hymns of Homer 746;
Petrarch’s Seven Penitential Psalms 915;
The Shadow of Night 479
Chapman, R. W.: 475
Charles I: 989, 1000, 1033
Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales 396, 602, II 227; The Parlement of Foules 1134
cheese: II 168–69; China, without a native 1185;
Society for the Preservation of Ancient Cheeses II 213;
“rather fine Red Cheshire” II 213
Chekhov, Anton: see Tchehov, Anton Chesterton, G. K.: II 64
Chopin, Frédéric: Preludes 403
Churchill, Winston: 1192; prose style and statesmanship 829–30;
appeasement 915;
“All will be well” 1032–33;
wartime speeches 1047–49
Cicero: De natura deorum 483; Somnium Scipionis 936
cinema: Disney’s Fantasia 789; “pure distraction” 649;
replacing theatre 811–12;
film of Murder in the Cathedral 993, 1036–37
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