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Morrell, Philip
Morris, Howard
Moses, Josiah
Münsterberg, Hugo
Murisier, Ernest
Murray, Gilbert
Murry, John Middleton; appointed editor of the Athenaeum; arranges reviews of TSE’s work; asks TSE to review his own play in the Athenaeum; commissions work from TSE in the Athenaeum; falls out with TSE; receives copy of Prufrock and Other Observations; reviews The Sacred Wood
Myers, L. H.
Nation (journal)
Neilson, William Allan
Nerval, Gérard de
New Statesman (journal)
New York Tribune
Newman, John Henry
Norris, Frank
Nouvelle Revue Française
Ohler, William Richard
Omega Club
Oxford, England
Palgrave, Francis Turner, Golden Treasury
Palmer, Ella M.
Palmer, George Herbert
Paris, France
Parker, Charles Pomeroy
Parker, George
Patanjali, Sutras
Pater, Walter
Patmore, Brigit
Patrick, G. T. W.
Péguy, Charles
Perinot, Claudio
Perkins, Joyce Carroll
Perry, Ralph Barton
Peters, Harold
Petronius
Philippe, Charles-Louis
Poe, Edgar Allan
Poetry (Chicago journal); publishes ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
Poetry Bookshop, London
Poetry Review (journal)
Pope, Alexander
Post, Lawrence Tyler
Post, Levi Arnold
Potter, Anthony Murray
Pound, Dorothy (née Shakespear)
Pound, Ezra: TSE first encounters poetry of; secretary to W. B. Yeats; meets and is impressed by TSE in London; introduces TSE to literary and artistic figures; encourages publication of TSE’s poetry; TSE sends poems to; on TSE’s marriage; writes to TSE’s father; friendship with TSE; foreign editor of the Little Review; publishes Catholic Anthology; encourages TSE’s imitation of French poets; TSE reads Pound’s poems before publication; TSE’s belief in; TSE shows ‘Gerontion’ to; holiday in France with TSE (1919); publishes Quia Pauper Amavi; works for the New York Dial; wish for TSE to leave banking; proofreads The Sacred Wood; sees Eliots in Paris; recognition of TSE’s marriage difficulties; translates Rémy de Gourmont’s Physique de l’amour; editorial contribution to The Waste Land; envy of TSE’s accomplishment in The Waste Land; TSE dedicates The Waste Land to; on TSE’s health; develops ‘Bel Esprit’ subscription scheme to fund artists; on Vivien’s ill-health; gives TSE nickname ‘Possum’; on the Criterion
Poetry of: ‘Cantos’; ‘Homage to Sextus Propertius’; ‘Hugh Selwyn Mauberley’; Poems 1918–21
Powel, Thomas
Powell, Harford
Power, Father G. D.
Prichard, Matthew
Proust, Marcel
Quarterly Review (journal)
Quinn, John; support for publication of TSE’s poetry in America; negotiates publication of The Waste Land; and Pound’s ‘Bel Esprit’ scheme
Rainey, Lawrence
Rand, Edward Kennard
Rascoe, Burton
Rattray, Robert
Read, Herbert
Reed, John Silas
Reed, Nathan
Reid, Mayne
Revere, Paul
Richards, I. A.
Richmond, Bruce
Ricks, Christopher
Riley, James Whitcomb
Rivière, Jacques
Robbins, Elizabeth
Roberts, William
Robey, George
Robinson, John
Rodker, John
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rostand, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac
Rothermere, Mary Lilian Share Harmsworth, Viscountess (Lady Rothermere)
Royce, Josiah
Rubenstein, Ida
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand: as visiting professor at Harvard; impressions of TSE as a Harvard student; TSE meets in London; TSE’s poem ‘Mr Apollinax’ inspired by; hosts TSE in Cambridge, England; relationship with Lady Ottoline Morrell; on TSE and Vivien; relationship with Vivien Eliot; makes over investments to TSE; introduces TSE to literary and artistic circles; introduces TSE to Lady Ottoline Morrell; takes TSE to Garsington; encouragement of TSE’s academic work; sacked from Trinity College, Cambridge for anti-war activities; encourages publication of TSE’s poetry; relationship with Lady Constance Malleson; as benefactor of TSE; publishes Principles of Social Reconstruction; imprisoned for anti-war activities
Ryan, Charles Hills
Saintsbury, George
Sand, George
Sands, Ethel
Sanger, Dora
Santayana, George
Saturday Westminster Gazette
Saunders, Helen
Schiff, Sydney
Schiff, Violet
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
Schmidt, Karl
Schnitzler, Arthur
Schofield, William Henry
Schrader, Atreus Hargadine von
Schuchard, Ronald
Secker, Martin
Seeger, Alan
Seymour-Jones, Carole
Shakespeare, William
Shapleigh, Margaret
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheffield, Alfred D.
Sheldon, Edward
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sigg, Eric
Simmers, George
Sinclair, May
Sitwell, Edith
Sitwell, Osbert
Sitwell, Sacheverell
Smith, George Lawrence
Smith, Grover
Smith, J. A.
Smith, Rose (TSE’s aunt)
Smith, Theodora Eliot (TSE’s niece)
Snider, Denton J.
Snyder, Reverend John
Soldo, John
Spenser, Edmund
Spinoza
Squire, J. C.
St Louis, Missouri: cultural influences on TSE; cyclone, May 1896; Eliot family home in; fogs; press announcement of TSE’s marriage; St Louis Philosophical Society; World’s Fair (1904)
Starbuck, E. D.
Stayer, Jayme
Stearns, Thomas (TSE’s grandfather)
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stewart, J. A.
Stimpson, Mary
Strachey, Lytton
Stravinsky, Igor, The Rite of Spring
Swanage, Dorset
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Symbolism
Symes, Lillia
Symons, Arthur; The Symbolist Movement in Literature
Synge, J. M.
Teasdale, Sara
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Thayer, Lucy
Thayer, Scofield: TSE meets at Milton Academy; at Oxford with TSE; relationship with Vivien; corresponds with Vivien; unhappy about Vivien’s marriage to TSE; edits Dial magazine; arranges reviews of TSE’s work; invites TSE to edit an English Dial; rivalry with TSE; negotiates publication of The Waste Land in Dial
Thornburgh, Edwine
Times Literary Supplement
Tinckom-Fernandez, William George
Tree, Iris
Twain, Mark, Huckleberry Finn
Tylor, E. B.
Tyro (journal)
Underhill, Evelyn
Van Bever, Adolphe, Poètes d’Aujourd’hui
Van Ness, Ann
Van Riper, Walker Moore
Vanderpyl, Fritz
Vandervelde, Lalla
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Verdenal, Jean Jules
Villon, François
Virgil
Vittoz, Dr Roger Henry Melling
Vorticism
Wadsworth, Edward
Wagner, Richard; Tristan und Isolde
Waste
Land, The: TSE’s resolution to write ‘long poem’; early lines written while still at Harvard; composition of; TSE discusses with Mary Hutchinson; TSE shows Wyndham Lewis material for; epigraph for; Ezra Pound assists in editing; dedication to Ezra Pound; TSE negotiates publication in Dial magazine; first publication; TSE reads aloud to Virginia Woolf; reception of
Themes, images and influences: Conrad Aiken; St Augustine; Buddhism; comic opera; and ‘The Death of the Duchess’; ‘Gerontion’ as possible prelude to; TSE’s experience of sailing at Gloucester, Massachusetts; Oliver Goldsmith; the hermit thrush; Huneker’s Egoists: A Book of Supermen; Aldous Huxley’s Crome Yellow; ‘hyacinth girl’ episode; imagery from TSE’s London working life; imagery from Weston’s From Ritual to Romance; different languages in; literary tradition in; James Russell Lowell’s A Vision of Sir Launfal; Andrew Marvell; Maurras’s L’Avenir de l’Intelligence; Gérard de Nerval; Ovid; philosophical influences; poetic form; religion and ritual; Shakespeare; Edmund Spenser; thunder in; figure of Tiresias; title; the Upanishads; Wagner; John Webster.
Waterlow, Sydney
Watson, George
Watson, James Sibley
Waugh, Arthur
Weaver, Harriet Shaw
Wedekind, Frank
Wendell, Barrett
Westermarck, Edward
Westminster Gazette
Weston, Jessie L.; From Ritual to Romance
Whait, John Robert
Wharton, Edith
Wheelock, John Hall
White, John Williams
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wiener, Norbert
Wiggins, Kate Douglas
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, William Carlos
Wilm, E. C.
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Woodrow
Woods, James Haughton
Woolf, Leonard
Woolf, Virginia: and the Bloomsbury set; meets TSE and publishes Poems (1919); on TSE; friendship with TSE; sexuality; hosts TSE at Monks House; agrees publication of The Waste Land by the Hogarth Press; contributes to the first edition of the Criterion; and schemes to provide funds for TSE; TSE reads The Waste Land to
Wright, Charles Henry Conrad
Yeats, Jack Butler
Yeats, W. B.
1. Henry Ware Eliot, Jr, with his baby brother Tom in St Louis around 1890.
2. Tom’s father, Henry Ware Eliot, sitting on the porch of the family’s summer home at Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
3. Tom’s mother, Charlotte Champe Eliot.
4. Tom, sitting on the front gate of 2635 Locust Street, St Louis, with his mother and, from left, his cousin Henrietta, his sister Marian (obscured, with her hand to her head), and his sister Margaret on the morning after the 1896 cyclone.
5. 2635 Locust Street was screened by dense foliage in a city often loud with the sound of cicadas.
6. The hallway of 2635 Locust Street, with the grandfather clock (at left) that Tom’s father brought from Massachusetts as a present for his wife.
7. Tom, aged about four, posing for a formal photograph.
8. Tom, aged about six, with his nursemaid, Annie Dunne, in St Louis.
9. Tom, aged about seven, in St Louis.
10. Tom, aged about ten, standing in the yard of Smith Academy, St Louis.
11. The Downs, the Eliots’ extensive summer house at Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts, when recently built in the 1890s.
12. The view to the sea from the porch at the Eliots’ Gloucester house.
13. Tom in a sailor suit, sitting astride the balustrade of the porch at the Gloucester house, contemplating a model boat.
14. Tom as a boy at Gloucester, learning to sail.
15. A damaged photograph of Tom, aged about eight, with his cousins Eleanor and Barbara Hinkley on rocks at Eastern Point, Gloucester.
16. Tom, aged about twelve.
17. Harvard Yard at the beginning of the twentieth century.
18. Tom as a thin Harvard under-graduate in 1907, wearing what look like white flannel trousers on the porch at Eastern Point, Gloucester.
19. Tom as a student, sailing in the catboat Elsa.
20. A modern photograph of the house at 16 Ash Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Tom lodged as a graduate student.
21. Emily Hale, aged twenty-three, in 1914 (her favourite picture of herself).
22. Vivien Eliot as a young woman.
23. Vivien and Tom as a young married couple in 1916 in their flat at 18 Crawford Mansions, Marylebone, London.
24. Vivien’s photograph of Tom with Violet and Sydney Schiff in the living room of the house the Eliots leased with Bertrand Russell at Marlow, Buckinghamshire.
25. Bertrand Russell in 1916.
26. Vivien at home in the Eliots’ London flat.
27. Tom, Osbert Sitwell, young Jeremy Hutchinson, and Mary Hutchinson at West Wittering, Sussex, in July 1919.
28. A modern photograph of London’s Clarence Gate Gardens. The Eliots’ flat was in the far block on the left, just before the church.
29. An early twentieth-century postcard showing the Hôtel-Pension Ste-Luce, Lausanne, where ‘What the Thunder Said’ was written.
30. Vivien’s summer 1920 photograph of (right to left) Violet Schiff, Tom, Sydney Schiff, Lady Tosti (widow of the composer F. P. Tosti), Wyndham Lewis, and two Italian visitors, Signora and Signor Emanueli, in the Schiffs’ garden at Eastbourne.
31. Tom’s photograph of Vivien with the same group on the same occasion.
32. The title page of The Waste Land when first published as a book.
List of Plates
Frontispiece: Tom during his student years.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
1. Henry Ware Eliot, Jr., with his baby brother Tom in St Louis around 1890. This photograph was taken by the firm of Scholten, St Louis, often regarded as the leading St Louis photographer at that time.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
2. Tom’s father, Henry Ware Eliot, sitting on the porch of the family’s summer home at Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
3. Tom’s mother, Charlotte Champe Eliot.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
4. Tom, sitting on the front gate of the family home at 2635 Locust Street, St Louis, with his mother and, from the left, his cousin Henrietta, his sister Marian (obscured, with her hand to her head), and his sister Margaret on the morning after the 1896 cyclone.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
5. 2635 Locust Street (now demolished) was screened by dense foliage in a city often loud with the sound of cicadas.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
6. The hallway of 2635 Locust Street, with (on the left) the grandfather clock which Tom’s father brought from Massachusetts as a present for his wife.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
7. Tom, aged about four, posing for a formal photograph.
(Houghton Library, Harvard; reproduced with the permission of the Houghton Library and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
8. Tom, aged about six, with his nursemaid, Annie Dunne, in St Louis. Tom’s brother, Henry, was a keen amateur photographer, and took many family photographs.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of Kin
g’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
9. Tom, aged about seven, in St Louis. This photograph, showing the large ears which so embarrassed him, was taken by the firm of Holborn’s Dainties of 2820 Washington Avenue, St Louis, a well established photographic firm.
(Houghton Library, Harvard; reproduced with the permission of the Houghton Library and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
10. Tom, aged about ten, standing in the yard of Smith Academy, St Louis.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
11. The Downs, the Eliots’ extensive summer house at Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts, when recently built in the 1890s.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
12. The view to the sea from the porch at the Eliots’ Gloucester house. The family liked to gather on this verandah.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
13. Tom in sailor suit, sitting astride the balustrade of the porch at the Gloucester house, contemplating a model boat.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
14. Tom as a boy at Gloucester, learning to sail. He was taught by a retired sailor, nicknamed ‘The Skipper’.
(Hayward Bequest, King’s College, Cambridge; reproduced with the permission of King’s College Archives and the T. S. Eliot Estate)
15. A damaged photograph of Tom, aged about eight, enjoying the company of his cousins Eleanor and Barbara Hinkley on the rocks at Eastern Point, Gloucester, where he liked to play as a boy.