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Chout (ballet), 184
Bergson, Henri, 169, 186
Chu Chin Chow (musical), 142
Bertrand, Aloysius, 159
Churchill, Charles, 173
Boileau-Dexpréaux, Nicholas, 159
Church of England, 170–171
Bottomley, Horatio, 142
Cinema, 142, 168, 184
Boutique fantasque (ballet), 184
Cino da Pistoia, 198
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City of London (financial district),
Duchess of Malfi (John Webster), 167
170–171
Duncan, Raymond, 191
Clemenceau, Georges, 137
Cleveland, John, 150, 194, 201
Ebeneezer Temperance Association, 148,
Clumsy, Sir Tunbelly, 141
167
Clutton-Brock, Arthur, 170
Ecclesiastes, 162
Coalition Government, 138
Einstein, Albert, 183, 191
coal strike (1921), 183
“Elegy for John Oldham” (John Dryden),
Coleridge, S. T., 151, 154
181–182
Collins, William, 150, 156, 198
Epstein, Jacob, 183
Colvin, Sir Sidney, 170
Epstein, Jean, 199
comet, Pons-Winnecke, 183
Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, 184
Congreve, William, 184
Corbière, Tristan, 200
Falsta¤, 141
Corneille, Pierre, 180
ferocity, aesthetics of, 168, 169. See also
Court Theatre (London), 189
surprise, aesthetics of; violence,
Covent Garden (opera house, London),
aesthetics of
183
Firbank, Ronald, 186
Cowley, Abraham, 147, 150, 156, 174–175,
Flaubert, Gustave, 151
177, 193, 195, 200–201
Forbes-Robertson, Sir J., 167
Cowper, William, 173
Frazer, James, 189
Crabbe, John, 173
Craig, Gordon, 184–185
Gautier, Théophile, 147, 150
Crashaw, Richard, 193, 196, 200
George V, 183
Creevey, Thomas, 186
Georgian Anthology, or Georgian Poetry,
Crothers, Samuel McChord, 136, 137
137–139, 145
Cruikshank, George, 169
Georgianism, 164
Cuadro Flamenco (ballet), 184
Gibbon, Edward, 159, 160, 186
Gilbert and Sullivan, 167
Dada, 141, 144
Gioconda, La ( Mona Lisa), 162, 165
Daily News (newspaper, London),
Gladstone, William Ewart, 185–186
166–167
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 145
Dante Alighieri, 145, 153, 160, 198
Golden Bough (James Frazer), 189
Darling, Charles John, 239
Golden Treasury, 146
Darwin, Charles, 191
Goldsmith, Oliver, 173, 198
Denham, John, 159, 173
Good-Humoured Ladies (ballet), 184
De Quincy, Thomas, 159, 163
Goossens, Eugene, 188
Descartes, René, 141
Gosse, Edmund, 136, 170
Diaghilev, Sergei, 146, 184
Gourmont, Remy de, 161
Diderot, Denis, 190
Graves, George, 142, 168
Disraeli, Benjamin, 186
Gray, Thomas, 150, 156, 173, 196, 198
Donne, John, 146–147, 149, 162, 192,
Grierson, Herbert, J. C. 192
193, 196–197, 200, 201
Guinizelli, Guido, 198
Drinkwater, John, 137
drought (1921), 183
Haldane, Lord Richard Burdon, 183
Drury Lane (opera house, London), 183
Hale, Robert, 142, 168
Dryden, John, 147, 148, 154–155, 161,
Hardy, Thomas, 147, 190
172–182, 198, 200
Hazlitt, William, 176
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Herbert, George, 193, 195, 200
Manners, J. Hartly ( Peg o’ My Heart), 167
Herbert of Cherbury, Lord, 192, 195, 200
Margate, 183
Hogarth, William, 169
Marlowe, Christopher, 147, 172, 196
Homer, 149, 160
Marvell, Andrew, 146–157, 170, 192, 196,
Horace, 149, 179
198, 200
Huxley, 139
Massine, Leonide, 184
Masters, Edgar Lee, 137
Ibsen, Henrik, 167
Melbourne, William Lamb, second
Incorporated Stage Society, 166
Viscount of, 186
Influenza (1921), 183
Mencken, H. L., 135
“Metaphysical poetry,” 192–201
Johnson, Samuel, 151, 173, 194, 196, 198,
Middleton, Thomas, 194
200–201
Midshipman Easy, 141
Jones, Tom, 141
Miles Gloriosus, 143
Jonson, Ben, 140, 147, 150, 154, 166–167,
Milton, John, 147, 148, 150, 154–155, 156,
172, 192, 196
160, 162, 175, 176, 177–178, 180,
Joyce, James, 165, 186, 189
198, 200
Money, Sir Leo Chioza, 167
Keats, John, 137, 145, 147, 157, 170, 173
Monro, Harold, 136, 139
King, Bishop Henry, 192, 194, 200
Montaigne, Michel de, 196
Morris, Margaret, 191
Lafontaine, Jean de, 147
Morris, William, 152–154
Laforgue, Jules, 139, 146, 199–200
Mozart, George, 140, 142
Lane, Lupino, 142, 168
Murry, John Middleton, 169–170
Lee, Nathaniel, 178
music hall, 140, 142, 168
Legend, Sir Sampson, 141
Levey, Ethel, 141, 168
Nation (periodical), 169
Lewis, Wyndham, 169
Newman, John Henry, 159, 160, 161
Lindsay, Vachel, 137
Newton, Sir Isaac, 191
Little Tich, 140, 142, 168
Nichols, Robert Malise Bowyer, 139
Lloyd, Marie, 139–140, 142, 169
Nijinksy, Vaslav, 184
Lloyd George, David, 137
Lombard Street (City of London), 171
Oldham, John, 173, 181
London County Council, 171
Overreach, Sir Giles, 141
London Mercury, 169
Ovid, 150, 179
London Wall (street, City of London),
Oxford Book of English Verse, 146, 192
170
Lopokova, Lydia, 184
Palladium (music hall, London), 139
Lotinga, Ernie, 140
Pater, Walter, 162, 165, 187
Lucretius, 148, 179
Pavlova, 184
Lynd, Robert, 167, 170, 183
Peg o’ My Heart (J. Hartly Manners), 167
Phillips, David Graham, 137
Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 137
Phillips, Edward, 173
Macaulay, Thomas Babbington, 186
Phoenix Society, 140, 141, 166–167
Macdermott, Norman, 189
Picasso, Pablo, 140, 188
“MacFlecknoe” (John Dryden), 174–175
Podsnap, 138, 142
Maida Vale (road, London), 143
Poe, Edgar Allan, 145, 154, 159, 160,
Mallarmé, Stephan, 164, 176
163, 195
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Pope, Alexander, 147, 148, 161, 173, 176, 177
Stravinsky, Igor, 184, 188–189
Pound, Ezra, 139
surprise, aesthetics of, 149, 154, 174,
Prior, Matthew, 193
175. See also ferocity, aesthetics of;
Propertius, 150
violence, aesthetics of
Proposed Demolition of Nineteen City
Swift, Jonathan, 147
Churches, 171
Swinburne, Algernon, 162, 180–181
Punch (periodical), 169
Taylor, Jeremy, 161
Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, 148
Tennyson, Sir Alfred, 137, 138, 141, 145,
Racine, Jean, 180, 200
147, 162, 197–198
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 165
Théâtre du Vieux Colombier (Paris), 184
Read, Herbert, 139
Thompson, Francis, 193
Repplier, Agnes, 136
Three-Cornered Hat (ballet), 184
Revival of Criticism, 139, 170
Times Literary Supplement, 169
Robey, George, 168
“To His Coy Mistress” (Andrew Marvell),
Romance (Edward Brewster Sheldon), 145
148–150
Rossetti, Christina, 193
Tourneur, Cyril, 194
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 145
Townshend, Aurelian, 192, 201
Rowlandson, Thomas, 169
Turgenev, Ivan, 163
Ruskin, John, 163
Twain, Mark, 174
Sacre du printemps (Igor Stravinsky),
Ulysses (James Joyce), 165, 189
188–189
United Grand Junction Ebeneezer
St. Michael Paternoster (church, London),
Temperance Association, 148, 167
171
Saintsbury, George, 192
Van Doren, Mark, 173–174, 179
Seldes, Gilbert, 189
Vaughan, Henry, 193, 200
Settle, Elkanah, 174
Vergil, 160
Shadwell, Thomas, 174
Villon, François, 154, 175
Shaftesbury, Arthur Ashley Copper,
violence, aesthetics of, 169, 180, 194.
first earl of, 174
See also ferocity, aesthetics of;
Shakespeare, William, 147, 151, 167, 175,
surprise, aesthetics of
176, 194
Volpone, or the Fox (Ben Jonson), 140, 143
Shaw, George Bernard, 183, 184, 188–191
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet de, 159
Sheldon, Edward Brewster ( Romance), 167
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 137, 147, 157, 173, 198
Wallace, Nellie, 142, 168
Shewing Up of Blanco Posnet (G. B. Shaw),
Waller, Edmund, 173
189
Webster, John, 167, 194
Sitwell, Edith, 139
Western, Squire, 141
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 161, 162
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 139
Sokolova, Lydia, 189
Wilde, Oscar, 190
Spenser, Edmund, 176
Wilson, Woodrow, 137
Spinoza, Baruch, 198
Woolf, Virginia, 186–187
Spoon River Anthology (Edgar Lee
Wordsworth, William, 137, 147, 157,
Masters), 137
160, 173
Squire, John Collings, 138, 141, 170, 183
Wren, Sir Christopher, 170
Star (newspaper, London), 166
Strachey, Lytton, 185–187
Yeats, William Butler, 139, 147
Document Outline
Contents
Introduction A Note on the Text
The Waste Land Editor’s Annotations to
Historical Collation
Eliot’s Contemporary prose London Letter, March 1921
The Romantic Englishman, the Comic Spirit, and the Function of Criticism
The Lesson of Baudelaire
Andrew Marvell
Prose and Verse
London Letter, May 1921
John Dryden
London Letter, July 1921
London Letter, September 1921
The Metaphysical Poets
Notes to Eliot’s Contemporary Prose
Selected Bibliography
General Index
Index to Eliot’s Contemporary Prose