Place des Victoires 403, 1147;
Vieilles Actrices 387
Taille, Maurice de la: 833
Tandy, Alison: 39, 57, 62, 63, 66, 72; TSE offers to help evacuate from London 39
Tandy, Geoffrey: 39–40, 66, 69; broadcasts of Practical Cats 43–44
Tandy, Polly: 39–40, 43, 61
Taylor, Isaac: 1084
Tchehov, Anton: Three Sisters 647
teeth: “plastic” II 214
Tennyson, Alfred: 382, 550, 682, 882, 969, 971, 1021, 1112; and evolution 937;
Aylmer’s Field 929;
Break, break, break 940, 1201;
The Brook 1202;
The Charge of the Light Brigade 1168;
Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height II 146;
Crossing the Bar 1071, 1104, 1123, 1133, II 142;
The Deserted House 486;
A Dream of Fair Women: 1122;
The Eagle 935, II 146;
Edwin Morris 1010;
Enoch Arden 1109, 1135;
The Epic 550;
Fatima 486, 1003;
The Gardener’s Daughter 1136;
Gareth and Lynette 697, 1048;
Godiva 1181;
The Golden Year 1018–19;
Guinevere 627;
The Hesperides 1108;
The Higher Pantheism 779;
The Holy Grail 842;
Idylls of the King II 227;
In Memoriam 407, 480, 524, 689, 696–97, 882, 941, 1010, 1021, 1027, 1040, 1094, 1112, 1122, 1124–25, 1134, 1153, 1201;
The Kraken 525;
Lady Clara Vere de Vere 856;
Leonine Elegiacs II 196;
Locksley Hall 510, 868, 1091;
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After 1107, 1129;
The Lotos-Eaters 607, 912, 1078, 1103;
The Lover’s Tale 1152;
Mariana 469–70, 608, 930, 1003, 1130;
Mariana in the South 471;
The Marriage of Geraint 753;
Maud 381–82, 390, 452, 607, 614, 670, 909, 930, 1092, 1101, 1123, 1135, 1141, 1148, 1158, 1189, 1201, II 213;
Merlin and Vivien 1077, 1088;
The Miller’s Daughter 653;
Morte d’Arthur: The Epic 1173;
Nothing Will Die 840;
Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 1049, II 288;
Of old sat Freedom on the heights II 145;
Parnassus 1002;
The Play 1097;
The Poet 856, II 143;
The Princess 695–96, 705, 827, 841–42, 921, 1101, 1105, 1106, 1109, 1113, 1118, 1171;
The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet II 59, 255;
Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere 1125, 1138;
Suggested by Reading an Article in a Newspaper 516;
The Talking Oak 1141
Tiresias 1048;
Tithonus 1165–66;
The Sisters 489;
To —, After Reading a Life and Letters 1106;
To J. S. 778;
To Virgil 382;
Ulysses 484, 681–83, 969;
The Voyage of Maeldune 1141–42;
Will II 146;
The Window 920;
The Wreck 1098
Thackeray, William Makepeace: The Due of the Dead 947
Thayer, Scofield: 560–64, II 364; and Vivien Haigh-Wood 645;
typescript of The Waste Land II 364–65;
and The Hollow Men II 417–18
Thompson, Francis: The Kingdom of God 879
Thomson, James (1700–48): Winter 1142
Thomson, James (1834–82): Art 720; The City of Dreadful Night 377–78, 386, 940, 1007–1008, 1102, 1167;
In the Room 380, 399, 661, 1133;
Insomnia 1080;
A Real Vision of Sin 690;
To Our Ladies of Death 604, 637;
Twenty-third Birthday 471;
Weddah and Om-el-Bonain 603
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista: 493
Times Literary Supplement (TLS): TSE’s earliest contribution (Ben Jonson) 547, 1179;
account of drafts of The Waste Land 585;
anonymous authority 672;
title of The Hollow Men 715;
“The Times always more or less apart” 1169
Tinckom-Fernandez, W. G.: 415–16, 432, 579, 703, 871, 1055; vers libre 1101;
The Waitress 1149;
Song of the Sap 432;
The Street Organ 1076, 1154
Titian: Bacchus and Ariadne 1123; Perseus and Andromeda 1177
Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America 964
Tourneur, Cyril: 457; The Atheist’s Tragedy 1020, 1023;
The Revenger’s Tragedy 476, 481, 483, 528, 637, 701
tradition: 355–60; “deficient in tradition” 360;
“the historical sense” 478;
“and new learning” 484;
“traditionalist as a Chinaman, or a Yankee” 693;
Eastern and Western 976, 1162;
“great stream of European tradition” 1021
translation: TSE begins translating Laforgue’s Hamlet 453; encouraged by Pound to translate Aeschylus’ Agamemnon 552;
“translations of one’s own works are useful texts for the study of a foreign tongue” 572;
considers translating Hofmannsthal 805;
“several translations” of poetry desirable 900;
“must be a personal interpretation” 906;
“connotation” 907;
attempts to translate Kuhlemann’s Tristan da Cunha 961–62;
translates Charles Maurron’s Concerning “Intuition” 1099
FROM FRENCH: 444; Baudelaire (Symons) 1103;
Arnaut Daniel (Pound) 464–65;
Remy de Gourmont (Pound) 483, 644, 1127;
Charles-Louis Philippe, Marie Donadieu (Violet Schiff) 413;
Marcel Proust (Scott Moncrieff) 428.
For Anabasis, see Perse, St.-John. For Pastels in Prose, see Merrill, Stuart
FROM ITALIAN: Cavalcanti (Pound) 733–34. See also Dante.
FROM LATIN: (Pound) 422; Petronius 593.
See also Pervigilium Veneris
FROM RUSSIAN: Dostoevsky 373–74
FROM SANSKRIT: (Lanman) 699; Upanishads (Purohit Swami/Yeats) 977
OF TSE INTO FRENCH: Ash-Wednesday (Menasce) 727, 734; (Nouveau) 734;
Burnt Norton (Geffroy) 910;
(Vigée) 911–12;
Coriolan II. Difficulties of a Statesman (Limbour) 816;
The Dry Salvages (Vigée) 971;
Four Quartets translations compared 900;
Four Quartets (Leyris) 914, 962;
Journey of the Magi (Gilson) 762, 764–65;
Landscapes (Mambrino) 850;
Little Gidding (Mambrino) 997;
(Gide/Bosco) 998, 1000, 1001, 1012, 1014, 1021;
(Leyris) 1011, 1034;
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Monnier/Beach) 399;
Poèmes 1910–1930 (Leyris) 460, 588, 698;
Preludes (Vivien Eliot) 412;
A Song for Simeon (Cattaui) 766;
The Waste Land (Menasce) 572, 589, 609, 658, 680, 700
OF TSE INTO GERMAN: Four Quartets (Nora Wydenbruck) 947; The Waste Land (Curtius) 689
OF TSE INTO ITALIAN: 446, 480, 800; The Hollow Men (Sanesi) 717;
Ash-Wednesday (Sanesi) 742–43
OF TSE INTO SPANISH: The Waste Land (Flores) 589, 680
OF TSE INTO SWEDISH: Sweeney Agonistes (Mesterton) 791, 813, 815; The Waste Land (Mesterton) 612, 618, 655, 669, 674, 694, 701, 704–707
Trevelyan, Mary: II 65, 187, 201
Trollope, Frances: 493
Turgenev, Ivan: The Skulls 530
Turner, W. Mc. (Francis): sent manuscript of Little Gidding for Magdalene College Library II 511; stuffs manuscript in a drawer II 512
Twain, Mark: 876, 1022; Autobiography 442;
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 963–64, 975
Underhill, Evelyn: Mysticism 745
Unitarianis
m: 440, 534–35, 759, 782, 1072, II xi, 58; “Bad Form” 812
Unwin, J. D.: II 222
Upanishads: 76–77, 462, 699, 708, 957, 977, 980
Valerie’s Own Book 708, 1068, 1210, 1218–20; described II 304–305
Valéry, Paul: “too intelligent to be a philosopher” 519; Cantique des Colonnes 718;
Le Cimetière marin 723;
La Crise de l’esprit 700, 805, 955;
Eupalinos ou l’Architecte 921;
Poésie et pensée abstraite 947
Vaughan, Henry: 769; The Night 539;
On Sir Thomas Bodley’s Library 1041;
The Retreat 910;
Silex Scintillans 940
Verdenal, Jean: “the memory of a friend” 370–71; correspondence 442, 449–50, 1078, 1165;
enthusiasm for Wagner 607–608
Verhaeren, Emile: L’Attente 1088; L’Ivresse 1099
Verlaine, Paul: Art Poétique 664, 1097; Colloque sentimental 1119;
Crimen Amoris 1134–35;
Le Faune 1108;
Impression Fausse 931;
Nuit de Walpurgis classique 396;
Parsifal 74, 656, 697;
Romances sans paroles 1076;
Walcourt 1077–78
Versailles, Treaty of: 482, 823; Polish Corridor 478;
Hall of Mirrors 482–83, 604;
reparations 604, 825;
Carthaginian peace 675;
Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace 675–76, 822, 1030;
Reed, Peace That Passeth All Understanding 709;
and The Hollow Men 719;
the Big Four 722;
Clemenceau 822
verse forms: blank verse 356, 362, 802, 1227; copla 850;
free verse 361–62;
Laforgue’s couplets 1117;
Meredithian sonnet 430, 1146;
Pope’s couplets 641, 1070, 1227;
quatrains 458, 493
(Donne), 522, 1064;
ottava rima 641–42, 1070, 1227;
sonnet 1227;
terza rima 997, 1005;
vers libre 361–62, 418, 434
(Charlotte Eliot’s doubts), 1101, 1118;
villanelle 1227
Vielé-Griffin, Francis: 460–61
Vildrac, Charles: 435, 457, 1162
Villon, François: 1115; Ballade des dames du temps jadis 513;
La Belle Heaulmière II 52;
Le Grand Testament 507;
“Je meurs de soif auprès de la fontaine” 508
Virgil: 820; TSE “a Virgilian” 661;
Georgics 832, 957, 1178
AENEID: I – 73, 452, 543, 626, 628, 647;
II – 1007;
IV – 385, 431;
V – 975–76;
VI – 1172, 436, 593, 661, 738, 1014, 1020, 1168;
VIII – 1178;
IX – 837;
XII – 1180
Vivante, Leone: 575
Voltaire: 459
vorticism: 541; Vorticist Exhibition 1164
Wadsworth, Edward: Engine Room 1164
Wagner, Richard: loved by Ludwig II 604; Götterdämmerung 673–75;
Parsifal 656;
Das Rheingold 608;
Der Ring des Nibelungen 608, 674–75;
Tristan und Isolde 72, 607, 609, 1078–79, 1147
Wanley, Nathaniel: The Little Wonders of the World 740; The Resurrection 742
war: on writing in wartime 892, 990; l’entre deux guerres 950–51
WARS: Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) 951, 1017; Wars of the Roses (1455–87) 926, 977 1034;
English Civil War (1641–1652) and Charles I at Little Gidding 989, 1033–34;
Spanish-American War (1898) 1180;
Boer War (1899–1902) and a scrap-book 1131;
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) 604
THE GREAT WAR (1914–18): “The War crippled me as it did everyone else; but me chiefly because it was something I was neither honestly in nor honestly out of” 471;
TSE seeks a commission in Intelligence 485;
Forster on TSE and the war 592;
TSE caught in Marburg 601;
air raids 541, 943, 1164;
Antwerp occupied 473;
armaments 824–25;
Armistice Day 601;
bayonet practice 717;
Canadian Expeditionary Force 809;
Clemenceau 822–23;
Dardanelles 370–71;
The First World War (controversial title) 828;
the Front described 1167;
gold standard abandoned 510, 675;
Imperial War Graves Commission 618;
India 1055;
“The lamps are going out all over Europe” 943;
licensing hours 638;
Lusitania sunk 434, 1165;
outbreak 610;
pacifism 436, 485;
profiteers 510, 666, 942;
Rats Alley 632;
“sausage” trench-mortar bomb 824, 828;
trenches 914–15, 936, 955, 1164, 1167–68;
Tomb of the Unknown Warrior 610;
victory parades 821–22;
war poets 1168
(see also Brooke, Rupert; Graves, Robert; Hulme, T. E.; Owen, Wilfred; Rosenberg, Isaac; Sassoon, Siegfried). See also Versailles, Treaty of.
SPANISH CIVIL WAR (1936–39): Authors take sides on the Spanish War 980
SECOND WORLD WAR (1939–45): TSE as air raid warden 886, 892, 1002; writing of Four Quartets 883, 891–93;
air raids 943, 1004–1005, 1018, 1027;
atomic bomb 724–25;
Battle of the Atlantic 957;
black-out 943, 1006;
Dunkirk 1049;
Siege of Tobruk 1056;
official War Artists 1047;
“Where are the war poets?” 891, 1051–52
Warren, Henry Clark: Buddhism in Translations 75, 640–41, 693, 698, 739, 1027
Washington, Booker T.: II 38; Up from Slavery 1131
Watson, James Sibley: typescript of The Waste Land II 362–65
Watteau, Jean-Antoine: Assemblée dans un parc 1119; Embarquement pour Cythère 447, 1103, 1119
Watts, Isaac: 523, II 74
Weaver, Harriet Shaw: 596, 712, 1169; publication of Prufrock and Other Observations 368
Weber, Carl Maria von: L’Invitation à la Valse 508
Webster, John: 478; “the greatest of Shakespeare’s followers” 529;
Lucas’s edition 530, 632;
The Devil’s Law Case 477, 632–33;
The Duchess of Malfi 396, 510, 513, 608, 619, 633, 833, 949, 1038, 1180, 1182, II 594;
The White Devil 73, 603, 619, 633, 702, 1121, 1181, 1183, 1188
Wells, H. G.: Mr. Polly 1150; The War in the Air 421
Wesley, Charles: II 268; Gentle Jesus II 176, 253
Weston, Jessie L.: From Ritual to Romance 72, 588–90, 607, 612, 620, 698, 717, 852
Wharton, Edith: 1157; The Custom of the Country 642;
The Age of Innocence 1165
Whibley, Charles: 577, 600, 645, 829
Whistler, James McNeill: 1150
Whistler, Laurence: 1058; engraves glasses for Geoffrey Faber 1215, 1217–18
Whitman, Walt: After the Sea-Ship 394; I sing the body electric 417;
The Mystic Trumpeter 406, 694, 697;
Pioneers! O Pioneers! 831;
O Hymen! O Hymenee! 1179;
Salut au Monde! 776;
Scented Herbage of My Breast 1178;
Song of Myself 422, 746, 944;
Song of the Open Road 946;
Spontaneous Me 539;
That Music Always Round Me 405;
To You 538;
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 406, 558, 603, 661, 663, 688, 691, 692, 911, 965, 982;
Whispers of Heavenly Death 529;
Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand 1178
Whittier, John Greenleaf: Ichabod 546; The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall 1073;
Snow-Bound 114
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Wilde, Oscar: on Dickens II 70; The Ballad of Reading Gaol 420, 612, 1113, 1135, 1145;
The Decay of Lying 615;
The Harlot’s House 1103;
Intentions 381;
The Picture of Dorian Gray 381–99, 453, 495, 625, 1141, 1143, 1153;
The Sphinx 1102–1103
Wilkes, Thomas: A General View of the Stage 493
Williams, Charles: 761, 858, 916; exchange of poems II 179–81;
The Descent of the Dove 1036;
The Greater Trumps 695, 916;
The Seed of Adam 761, 780
Wilson, Edmund: 569; reviews The Waste Land 573
Wilson, John: Noctes Ambrosianæ II 207
Wilson, John Mackay: Tales of the Borders 475
Wolfe, Humbert: II 161, 181
Wolpe, Berthold: II 483
Wolpe, Margaret: II 75
Wood, Clement: Seedtime 618
Wood, Mrs. Henry: East Lynne II 70
Wood, J. G.: The Boy’s Own Book of Natural History 208 (elephant), 213
(opossum), 219
(whale); The Illustrated Natural History 59
(bandicoot); Natural History Picture Book 475
(hippopotamus); 1059
(kinkajou); 542
(orang-outang); 1203
(possum); 495
(rat); Wood’s Animal Kingdom 213
(cinnamon bear)
Woods, James Haughton: 434, 824, 907; recommends TSE for fellowship 540;
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