by T. S. Eliot
review of Criterion and TWL, 1;
see also Richmond, Bruce TSE CONTRIBUTIONS: ‘Andrew Marvell’, 1;
book reviews, 1n;
‘Ben Jonson’, 1n, 2n, 3, 4, 5n;
letters to editor, 1, 2, 3, 4;
‘The Metaphysical Poets’, 1, 2, 3;
‘Philip Massinger’, 1n, 2, 3
‘To Criticise the Critic’, 1n
‘To Walter de la Mare’, 1n
To-Day, 1, 2n, 3n, 4n, 5
Tolstoy, Leo, 1, 2, 3, 4
Tomlinson, H. M., 1n
Tomorrow Club, 1n, 2, 3, 4
Tonks, Henry, 1n
Torquay, 1
Torrence, Ridgely, 1n
Tosti, Lady, 1
Tosti, Sir Francesco Paolo, 1n, 2n, 3n
Toulet, Jean-Paul, 1n
Tourneur, Cyril, 1, 2
‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, 1n, 2n, 3n
Tree, Iris, 1n, 2
Trench, F. Herbert, 1n, 2
Trevelyan, G. M., 1n
Trevelyan, Sir George Macaulay, 1n, 2
Trevelyan, R. C., 1n, 2, 3
‘Tristan Corbière’, 1n
Trocadero museum, 1
Trotter, William, 1n
Trouville, 1
Tunbridge Wells, 1
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich, 1, 2
Turner, Major, 1, 2
Turner, W. J., 1n
Two Worlds, 1
Tyro, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘Ulysses, Order and Myth’, 1n, 2
Untermeyer, Louis, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4, 5n, 6
‘Up Boys and at ’Em’, 1
Upward, Allen, 1n
US Army/Navy: baseball, 1n;
TSE’s attempts to join, 1, 2, 3
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, 1n, 2n
Valéry, Paul, 1n, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6
Van Doren, Mark, 1n
Van Ness, Ann, 1n, 2, 3
Vanderpyl, Fritz, 1n, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Vandervelde, Emile, 1n
Vandervelde, Lalla, 1n, 2n
Vanity Fair, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5
The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (Clark lectures), 1n
Vauxcelles, Louis, 1n
Verdenal, Jean Jules, 1;
TSE’s acquaintance with, 1;
correspondence with TSE in Munich, 1, 2, 3;
death, 1
Verlaine, Paul, 1n, 2n
Verona, 1, 2
Versailles, Treaty of (1919), 1, 2
‘Verse and Prose’, 1
‘Verse Pleasant and Unpleasant’, 1n, 2n
Viau, Théophile de, 1n
Victoria & Albert Museum, 1
‘A Victorian Sculptor’, 1n
Vildrac, Charles, 1n
Virgil, 1
Vittoz, Dr Roger, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Vogue, 1
Voltaire (François Marie Arouet), 1, 2
Wadsworth, Edward Alexander, 1n;
exhibitions, 1, 2;
war service, 1;
TSE buys picture, 1;
designs for AVP, 1;
and Dial, 1;
and Tyro, 1;
buys portrait by WL, 1n;
on TSE’s health, 1
Wagner, Richard, 1, 2
Walker, Henry, 1n
Wallace Collection, 1
Wallas, Graham, 1, 2n, 3, 4n, 5
Waller, Edmund, 1, 2
Walpole, Hugh, 1n, 2, 3, 4
Ward, Frederick W. O., 1n
Wardle, Mark, 1, 2
The Waste Land: allusions to in TSE’s letters, 1, 2;
allusions to Wagner, 1n;
Criterion publication, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
and Dial 1922 award, 1, 2;
EP helps edit, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
EP on, 1, 2n;
epigraph, 1;
Hogarth Press edition, 1;
HWE Jr on, 1;
influences, 1n, 2n;
MS bought by Quinn, 1, 2n, 3;
quotes from Chapman’s Birds, 1n;
references to London churches, 1n;
reviews, 1n, 2;
SS on, 1;
TSE on, 1, 2;
TSE shows to friends, 1, 2, 3;
US copyright, 1;
US publication, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19n, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32;
VHE on, 1;
and WL, 1n;
writing of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Waterlow, Margery, 1
Waterlow, Sydney, 1n;
TSE meets, 1;
TSE reviews for, 1;
socialising with Eliots, 1, 2, 3, 4;
Legion of Honour, 1;
dinner at Woolfs, 1;
TSE on, 1, 2;
further correspondence with TSE, 1, 2, 3
Watson, James Sibley, 1n;
position at Dial, 1n;
and TWL, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9;
financing of Dial, 1;
and Rothermere, 1
Watson, John, 1n
Waugh, Arthur, 1n, 2n
Weaver, Harriet Shaw, 1;
takes over Egoist, 1nn;
TSE on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
and Rodker, 1;
and Egoist, 1, 2, 3;
solicits material from TSE, 1, 2, 3, 4;
sends TSE RA’s article on JJ, 1;
passes on to TSE bits of Ulysses, 1n;
publishes Moore, 1;
corresponds with JJ, 1n
Webster, John, 1, 2n, 3
Welch, Barbara Hinkley, 1n
Welch, Edward Sohier, 1n, 2
Wellesley College, 1n, 2
Wells, E. H., 1n, 2
Wells, H. G., 1
Wescott, Glenway, 1n
Westminster Gazette, 1, 2, 3, 4n
Wheels, 1n, 2n, 3
Whibley, Charles, 1n, 2, 3
‘Whispers of Immortality’, 1n, 2, 3
White, Sir William, 1n, 2n
Whitechapel, 1
Whitehead, Alfred North, 1n, 2
Whitman, Walt, 1n
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1
Whyte-Melville, G. J., 1n
Wiener, Norbert, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1n
Wilde, Oscar, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4n, 5
Wilenski, R. H., 1
‘William Blake’, 1n
Williams, William Carlos, 1n, 2n, 3n
Wilson, Edmund, 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wilson, John Croker, 1n
Wilson, President Woodrow: TSE’s transatlantic voyage companions on, 1;
and Sussex incident, 1;
elected president, 1n;
breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany, 1;
declares war, 1n, 2;
books about, 1n;
TSE on League of Nations policy, 1, 2;
visits UK, 1, 2;
HWE Snr on, 1;
at Versailles talks, 1
Wither, George, 1
Wolf, A., 1
Wolfe, Thomas, 1n
Wood, Bessie, 1
Wood, Mrs Henry, 1n
Wood, James, 1n
Woods, James Haughton, 1;
TSE writes to about Merton studies, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
TSE discusses future with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
TSE writes about book purchases for Harvard, 1, 2;
and TSE’s PhD, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
exchange post in France, 1n;
gives testimonial to US Army for TSE, 1, 2;
hopes of tempting TSE back to Harvard, 1, 2;
further correspondence with TSE, 1, 2
Woolf, Leonard, 1n, 2;
writes to solicit Hogarth Press work from TSE, 1;
socialising with Eliots, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
bad feeling with Eliots, 1, 2;
reviews SW, 1, 2, 3;
and Dial, 1, 2;
and TWL, 1;
TSE discusses Criterion contributions with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
further correspondence with TSE, 1, 2;
‘Is This Poetry?’ (review
of Poems and JMM), 1n;
Stories of the East, 1n, 2n;
The Village in the Jungle, 1;
see also Hogarth Press
Woolf, Virginia, 1;
on Omega Club, 1n;
first meeting with TSE, 1;
on TSE, 1n, 2n, 3n, 4n;
socialising with Eliots, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
on VHE, 1n;
bad feeling with Eliots, 1, 2;
on EP, 1n;
on WL, 1n;
and OM, 1;
MH sends TSE review by, 1;
TSE on, 1, 2, 3;
and Athenaeum, 1;
and London Mercury, 1n;
and Dial, 1;
health, 1, 2, 3;
and TWL, 1;
on TSE on JMM, 1;
and Bel Esprit, 1, 2;
see also Hogarth Press
WORKS: Dostoevsky translation, 1, 2, 3, 4;
‘In the Orchard’, 1n, 2, 3;
‘Is This Poetry?’ (review of Poems and JMM), 1n;
Jacob’s Room, 1;
Monday or Tuesday, 1n, 2;
‘On Being Ill’, 1n
Workers Educational Association, see Southall lectures;
Sydenham lectures
Wren, Sir Christopher, 1
Wycombe Grammar School, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Wylly, Col. H. C., 1n
Wyndham, George, 1n, 2n
‘Wyndham Lewis’, 1n
Xenophon, 1
Yeats, William Butler, 1n;
TSE hopes to meet up with, 1, 2;
and Abbey Theatre, 1n;
and Catholic Anthology, 1;
and psychical research, 1;
VHE on, 1;
and Dial, 1;
and Sturge Moore, 1n;
TSE desires Criterion contribution from, 1, 2;
on TSE’s poetry, 1;
TSE meets, 1, 2;
‘A Biographical Fragment’, 1;
The Player Queen, 1
Yorkshire lectures, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Yorkshire Post, 1
Zabarella, Giacomo, 1n, 2, 3
Zimmern, Alfred, 1n
1 TSE aged about three, holding Toby
2A The Revd William Greenleaf Eliot, TSE’s grandfather
2B TSE’s birthplace, 2635 Locust Street, St Louis, which no longer exists
3 His parents at different ages
4A Ada with Henry
4B Henry with TSE
4C ‘A baby face with golden promise fraught.’ TSE aged about four
5 Daguerreotype of TSE with his sister Margaret
6 With his Irish nursemaid, Annie Dunne, c.1895
7A With his mother at East Gloucester, 1895
7B In the schoolyard at the Mary Institute, St Louis, 1896
8A On the porch at Eastern Point, 1896
8B With T. L. McKittrick, a future President of the World Bank, 1896
9A With his Hinkley cousins and their nannies on the beach at East Gloucester, 1896
9B Eleanor and Barbara Hinkley with TSE in 1897
10A Charlotte, the sister who painted his portrait
10B His sister Marian
10C At the front gate of 2635 on the morning after the cyclone of 27 May 1896, with his mother and, left, cousin Henrietta and sister Margaret. Marian is hidden
11A With his father, 1895
11B And in 1898
12 TSE in his bedroom at St Louis, c.1900
13A With his cousins Abigail, Martha and Frederick Eliot
13B At the piano, c.1899
13C One of his father’s cat drawings
14A His mother’s bedroom at Locust Street
14B Interior of the house at Eastern Point
15 Charlotte’s oil portrait (18 x 23 in) c.1900–1. TSE is reading a volume of his red Shakespeare set, which remains in his library
16 Aged about twelve
17A The view from the Eliot home at Eastern Point
17B TSE
17C Henry, 1895
18A 1907
18b c.1908
C On other occasions
19A Henry (who is taking the photograph) with his parents at the breakfast table, 4446 Westminster Place, St Louis
19B Henry
19C TSE in 1910
20 Sailing off the Dry Salvages
21A TSE in the Elsa
21B At the helm with a friend (probably Harold Peters)
22 Jean Verdenal, January 1915
23 His mother at her bedroom desk (see letter of 30 December 1917)
24 Etching of Vivien Haigh-Wood as a child, by her father, which she gave to Enid Faber on 23 March 1933
25A Vivien and TSE at 18 Crawford Mansions, 1916
25B In the dining room at Crawford Mansions, July 1916
26 Tom and Vivien, c.1920
27 TSE with Ottoline Morrell at Garsington, c.1920
28A TSE with Maurice Haigh-Wood, Bosham, Sussex, 26 August 1916
28B At the door of South View, Bosham, 1916
29A Vivien, Jeremy and Barbara Hutchinson (on wall). TSE, St John Hutchinson (‘Jack’), Sacheverell and Osbert Sitwell, at West Wittering, Sussex, July 1919
29B TSE, Osbert Sitwell, Mary Hutchinson, Jeremy Hutchinson
30 TSE with his mother at Clarence Gate Gardens, summer 1921
31 TSE and Henry at Itchenor, Sussex, 1921
32 Eleanor Hinkley, 1922
About the Author
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
Valerie Eliot has edited T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land, a Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts (1971) and The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I: 1898–1922 (1988; revised 2009) and Volume II: 1923–1925 (2009).
Hugh Haughton is Professor of English at the University of York, author of The Poetry of Derek Mahon (2007) and editor of Poetry of the Second World War (2004). He is the co-editor (with Valerie Eliot) of The Letters of T. S. Eliot (2009).
John Haffenden is Research Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London. He has edited several collections of the works of William Empson, including The Complete Poems (2000).
By the Same Author
THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS
verse
COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962
FOUR QUARTETS
THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS
THE WASTE LAND:
A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
edited by Valerie Eliot
INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE:
POEMS 1909–1917
edited by Christopher Ricks
SELECTED POEMS
plays
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
THE FAMILY REUNION
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
THE ELDER STATESMAN
literary criticism
THE SACRED WOOD
SELECTED ESSAYS
THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM
VARIETIES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY
edited by Ronald Schuchard
TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC
