Arlott, John, 230
Armitage, Simon, 336
Arpeno, Tony, 73
Art of Sylvia Plath, The (essay collection), 279, 351
Arvon Foundation, 325, 385, 476
Arvon International Poetry Competition, 385
Aspinall, John, 493
astrology: TH and Olwyn’s interest in, 2, 15, 27–8, 70, 100–1, 139, 162, 188, 328, 373, 511
Atlantic Monthly (magazine), 124–5
Auden, Wystan Hugh, 125, 127, 168–9, 180, 252–3
Audience: A Quarterly of Literature and the Arts, 145
‘August Evening’ (TH; poem), 408
Aurelio, Josephine C., 2
Australia: Gerald emigrates to, 57, 73, 80; TH visits with father, 359, 363
‘Autumn Nature Notes’ (TH; poem), 513
Avco Embassy Pictures Corporation, 2, 6, 10
‘Badlands, The’ (TH; poem), 149
Bagayogo, Malick, 312
Baker, Kenneth, 482
Baldwin, James, 362
Baldwin, Michael, 268, 543
Ballard, J.G., 368
Baltzell, Jane, 114
Bananas (magazine), 368, 370
Bangladesh, 375–8
Barber, Jill: TH meets in Australia, 361; TH’s affair with, 363–6, 369–70; invited to Edna O’Brien’s, 374; in New York, 484; letters from TH, 553
Bardo Thödol (TH; unfinished oratorio libretto), 155–6, 332
Bark, Anne Voss (ed.): West Country Fly Fishing, 415
Barker, Nicola, 293
Baskin, Leonard: on Faber and Faber as ‘Fagin and Fagin’, 46; TH meets in USA, 139, 438; prints and illustrates ‘Pike’, 145; proposes cover for Meet My Folks, 148; illustrations for Crow, 283, 288–9, 294–5; illustrates Cave Birds, 323; illustrates Season Songs, 326; illustrates Orts, 341; moves to Devon, 373; illustrates Moon-Whales, 387; TH entertains, 401; illustrates A Primer for Birds, 413; illustrates Under the North Star, 413; Complete Prints published, 415; engravings for Capriccio, 450, 497; TH’s essay on, 491; and TH’s collection of SP poems, 502; illustrates Howls and Whispers, 509; sends collection of skulls to TH, 527; and TH’s complicated life, 528
Baskin, Lisa, 438
Baskin, Lucretia, 430
Bate, Gillian, 466–7
Bateson, Frederick, 492
‘Bawdry Embraced’ (TH; poem), 93–4, 135
‘Bayonet Charge’ (TH; poem), 102
‘Be a Dry-Fly Purist’ (TH; poem), 42
Beacon Press (publishing house), 3
Beacon, The (house), Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, 3–4, 32, 272
‘Beacon, The’ (TH; poem), 4, 143, 393
‘Bear, The’ (TH; poem), 422
Becker, Gerry, 209, 210, 213
Becker, Jill, 210, 213–14
Bedales (school), 324
‘Bee God, The’ (TH; poem), 566
‘Bees’ (TH; poem), 414
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 269, 516–17, 522
Bell Jar, The (SP): in Boston libel case, 7–10, 18, 431–9, 545, 550; autobiographical element, 10, 197, 305, 351, 436, 550; as film, 10, 436; TH gives copy to Elizabeth Compton, 221; publication and reception, 234, 351, 444–5; US edition royalties, 287–8, 329; reissued in Britain, 303; US publication and sales, 303–5, 350; writing, 304, 443–4; doubles in, 356–7, 435; lesbian episode in, 356–8; posthumous tax demands on royalties, 381, 413; case settled, 438, 441; TH sees trial in Shakespearean terms, 442–4
Bergman, Ingmar, 303, 333
Bernard, Kenneth, 386
Berryman, John, 179–80, 253
Betjeman, Sir John, 180, 324–5, 417–18, 419
Beuscher, Dr Ruth, 144
‘Beutscher’ (TH; poem), 436
Billyeald, Major and Bertha, 183–4
Birthday Letters (TH): and Boston Deposition, 11; publication, 15, 457, 504, 506–8, 526, 533; on TH-SP marriage, 20–1, 197, 429; qualities, 50; influenced by Graves’s White Goddess, 67; on SP, 101; on TH-SP wedding, 116; on life in Boston, 143–4; on Assia, 186; Hardyesque quality, 255; autobiographical candour, 339; title, 354; sales, 506, 526; origins and gestation, 510–11, 515–19, 522–6, 531; wins Forward Prize, 538; posthumous value, 547
‘Birthday Masque, A’ (TH; poem), 487
Bishop, Elizabeth, 156
‘Black Coat’ (TH; poem), 158, 521–2
‘Black Coat: Opus 131’ (TH; unpublished poem), 109, 112, 314, 325, 515–19, 522, 562–3
Blackman, Charles, 213
Blake, William, 76, 390
Bloodaxe (publishers), 536
Bloom, Harold (‘Hal’), 85
Boddy, Michael, 84–5, 108
Böhme, Jacob, 279
Bonnefoy, Yves, 252–3
Boston, Mass., Willow Street, 3, 143–4, 157, 165
Bottomley, Hilda (née Farrar; TH’s aunt): in Mytholmroyd, 34; marriage and separation, 35; gives animal book to TH as boy, 38; visits Mexborough, 48; visits TH and SP in Devon, 184; takes care of TH’s children during SP’s funeral, 219; TH visits with children, 222; and TH’s proposed move to Heptonstall with Assia, 223; helps TH at Court Green, 224; and father’s death, 360; Wolfwatching dedicated to, 428; attacks Assia, 453; letter to TH on award of OM, 538
Bottomley, Victor (Hilda’s husband), 35, 48
Bowes-Lyon, Fergus, 487
Boyanowsky, Ehor, 421–4; Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts, 558
Boyd, Michael, 500
Bradbury, Malcolm, 502
Bradley, A.C., 460
Bragg, Melvyn, 386, 529
Braithwaite, Edward Kamau, 230
Branson, Richard, 485
Brendel, Alfred, 543
Breughel, Pieter, 473
‘Bridestones’ (TH; poem), 395
Britain: A World by Itself (collective work), 415
British Book News, 227
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): TH’s freelance work for, 65, 169, 195, 201, 233, 244; TH auditions at, 123–4; TH and SP record for, 188
British Columbia, 420, 422, 424, 494
British Gas: sponsors River, 407–8
British Library: TH archive, 555, 557
Broadsheet (student magazine), 99
Brodsky, Joseph, 243, 441
Brontë family, 390
Brontë, Bramwell, 394
Brontë, Emily: TH asked to edit poems, 272, 458; omitted from By Heart anthology, 501; Wuthering Heights, 123, 536
Brook, Peter: TH collaborates with, 256–61, 277, 306–11, 318; and Conference of the Birds, 318, 323; TH on, 402; TH values views on Shakespeare, 461, 464
Brooke, Rupert, 69
Brown, Marty: letters from SP, 125–6, 200
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 504
Browning, Robert, 504
Bryden, Ronald, 260
‘Bull Moses, The’ (TH; poem), 145, 164
‘Bullfrog’ (TH; poem), 164
‘Burning Letters’ (SP; poem), 190
Bushell-Mingo, Josette, 490
Butscher, Edward: Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness, 353, 355, 431; (ed.) Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work, 355–6, 437
Buzan, Tony, 477
By Heart: 101 Poems to Remember (ed. TH), 501
Caikin, Celia (Assia’s sister), 275–6, 286
Calder valley and river, 25, 388–91, 406
‘Calm, The’ (TH; radio play), 175
Cambridge University: TH attends (Pembroke College), 55, 61, 65, 67, 69–80; Archery Club, 72–3; TH changes studies to Archaeology and Anthropology, 75–8; social composition, 78; TH returns to, 84–5, 106
Camps, Tony, 80
Cape Cod, 129, 142
Capote, Truman, 145
Capriccio (TH; cycle of poems), 188, 340, 450–2, 496–7, 521
‘Capriccios’ (TH; poem), 190
‘Capturing Animals’ (TH; broadcast talk), 37, 46, 59
Carey, John, 469–70, 528, 538, 554
Carne-Ross, Donald, 123–4
Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring, 297
Carter, Angela, 374
; ‘Cast, The’ (TH; poem), 523
‘Casualty, The’ (TH; poem), 102
Cat and the Cuckoo, The (TH; children’s poems), 430
Causley, Charles, 385–6, 417
Cave Birds (TH; poems), 323, 327, 332, 395–6
Celan, Paul: ‘Death Fugue’, 451
Chalcot Square, London, 160, 170, 186
Chamberlain, Neville, 48
Charles, Prince of Wales, 268, 476, 483–4, 486, 509, 543, 546
Chatto and Windus (publishers), 367, 387
Cheever, John, 148, 154
Chequer (magazine), 79, 96, 102, 105
‘Chlorophyll’ (TH; poem), 450
Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse, A (ed. TH), 458
Choice of Shakespeare’s Verse, A (ed. TH), 459, 461
Chou Wen-chung, 155, 332
Christian Science Monitor, 293, 489
‘Churn-Milk Joan’ (TH; poem), 395
City of Florence Prize for poetry: awarded to TH, 282
Clearing the Decks (TH; collection), 329
Cleese John, 364
‘Cleopatra to the Asp’ (TH; poem), 458
Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, 203, 209, 510
‘Climbing into Heptonstall’ (TH; poem), 537
Cohen, Marvin, 384
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 12, 64, 261, 491–2, 507; ‘Christabel’, 491; ‘Frost at Midnight’, 199, 217; ‘Kubla Khan’, 303; ‘The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem’, 217; ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, 460, 492
Coleridge Secondary Modern School for Boys, Cambridge, 126, 128
Collected Animal Poems (TH), 495
Collected Poems (SP; 1981), 354, 385
Collected Poems (TH; 2003), 548
Colossus, The (SP; poetry collection), 161, 169, 174, 234
Coming of the Kings, The (TH; plays), 322
Commedia (SP; verse), 445
Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin, 415
Compton, David, 222
Compton, Elizabeth (later Sigmund), 184, 221–2, 245, 296, 356, 548
Conference of the Birds, The (medieval Persian tale), 318, 323, 376
Connaught Hotel, London, 536–7
Conrad, Peter, 334
‘Contusion’ (SP; poem), 237
‘Conversation among the Ruins’ (SP; poem), 112
Cook, Ian, 426, 546
Cooke, Barrie, 193, 246, 276, 399, 405
Coole Park, Ireland, 192
Cope, Wendy, 14
Corke, Hilary, 488
Cornish, Ted, 385, 402, 415
Cosmopolitan (magazine), 305
Countryside Commission: and River, 410
Courier (Mytholmroyd newspaper), 294
‘Court Cards’ (TH; poem), 458
Court Green (house), North Tawton, Devon: TH’s home and life in, 11, 51, 155, 181–5, 200, 224–5, 231, 243–4, 286; TH and SP acquire and occupy, 175–8; visitors, 184, 187; TH drives to and from in day, 207–8; Comptons look after, 222; TH retains, 287; burgled and SP manuscripts stolen, 311; renovations, 317, 470; Carol’s life at, 424
Cox, C.B. (Brian), 71, 251
‘Crag Jack’s Apostasy’ (TH; poem), 29
Craig, Daniel, 548
Craig, W.J., 54
Crane, Hart, 147
‘Cries and Whispers’ (TH; poem), 523
Crimsworth Dene, near Hebden Bridge, 41–4
Critics on Sunday (radio programme), 209
Crookhill estate, near Conisborough (Yorkshire), 57–60
Crosbie-Hill, Janet, 161–2
‘Crossing the Water’ (SP; poem), 410, 501
Crossing the Water (SP; poems), 346
Crossley, Donald, 40–1
Crow (TH; poems): Larkin parodies, 14; and Baskin illustrations, 188–9, 294–5; writing, 246, 249, 252, 255, 288–9, 511; TH reads to Irene Worth, 257; language, 272; and Vasko Popa, 282; dedicated to memory of Assia and Shura, 286, 331, 343; qualities, 286, 327; publication, 288, 459; exposition and meaning, 289–91, 321, 376, 459; and Trickster, 289–90; reception, 291–4; limited editions, 294–5; sales, 294; Sylvia in, 296, 349; TH reads in New York, 302; and Pilinszky poems, 321–2; as epic, 332; and TH’s inner torment, 345; TH expounds in Australia, 362–3; and Shakespeare, 459; TH gives public readings, 459; dramatised by Michael Boyd, 500
‘Crow Hill’ (TH; poem), 164
‘Crow Wakes’ (TH), 294
‘Crown Point Pensioners’ (TH; poem), 392
crows: wing-beat, 285
‘Crow’s Song about England’ (TH; poem), 390
‘Crow’s Song about Prospero and Sycorax’ (TH; poem), 461
Cruttwell, Patrick, 464
Crystal Gazer (SP; poetry collection), 347
Csokits, János, 219, 249–50, 322, 430, 493, 502, 547
Cuba: TH’s fishing trip in, 509
Cummings, E.E., 147
‘Daddy’ (SP; poem): and SP’s view of father and TH, 8, 189, 201, 443, 447; TH reads and publishes, 216, 236–7; power and bitterness, 239–40, 296, 350, 438; Time magazine reprints, 240; Aurelia and, 254; and TH’s Orts, 342; feminists and, 346; and TH’s ‘Snow’, 451
Daily Telegraph, 167, 228
Dalton, Timothy, 364
Dancer to God, A (TH; essay), 92
Daniel, Glyn, 77
Dante Alighieri, 445
Davenant, William, 545
David and Charles (publishers), 407
Davidow, Ann, 198
Davids, Roy, 13, 385, 400
Davie, Donald, 135, 251
Davison, Peter, 103–4, 124, 139, 145–6
Dawe, Des (Frieda’s first husband), 382, 402
‘Day he died, The’ (TH; poem), 542
Day Lewis, Cecil, (ed.) The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen, 236
‘Day of Success’ (SP; story), 369
‘Deadfall, The’ (TH; story), 42
‘Delivering Frieda’ (TH; poem), 512, 514–15
delta (magazine), 79, 88
Dexter, Ted, 72
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 375–7
Diana, Princess of Wales, 488
‘Dick Straightup’ (TH; poem), 164
Dickinson, Emily, 201, 219; TH edits, 242, 458
‘Difference, The’ (TH; poem), 523
Difficulties of a Bridegroom (TH; radio play), 201, 216, 310, 332
Difficulties of a Bridegroom (TH; short stories), 495
‘Do not pick up the telephone’ (TH; poem), 188–9
‘Dogs: A Scherzo’ (TH; radio play), 233
Don and Dearne (school magazine), 56
Doolan, Moira, 37, 173, 210
Doonreaghan, Cashel, Ireland, 244–5
Dostoevsky, Fedor, 356
Douglas, Keith, 235–6; ‘The Sea Bird’ (poem), 236
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 230
‘Dove, A’ (TH; poem), 189
Downer, Jim, 111
‘Dream of Horses, A’ (TH; poem), 180–1
‘Dream of the Lion’ (TH; poem), 486
Dreamfighter, The (TH; collection of ‘Creation Tales’), 495
‘Dreams Like Deer’ (TH; poem), 377
Dublin, 271
Duffy, Carol Ann, 497
Duncan, Anne (née Farrar), 400
Dunn, Douglas, 515
Dunstan, Don, 361
Dusseldorp, Kristina, 374, 428–9
‘Dust As We Are’ (TH; poem), 428
Dyment, Clifford, 191
Dyson, Tony, 71
‘Early August 1959’ (TH; poem), 153
Earth Dances (TH; poems), 495
Earth-Moon (TH; poems), 387
‘Earth-Numb’ (TH; poems), 343, 372
Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People, The (TH; children’s poems), 201, 227, 387
‘Earthenware Head, The’ (TH; poem), 339
Eat Crow (TH), 294, 296, 332
Eberhart, Richard, 148
‘Edge’ (SP; poem), 235, 237, 514
Edinburgh Festival: TH reads poetry at, 244
Eichmann, Adolf, 172
‘18 Rugby Street’ (TH; poem), 108
–9, 215, 523–5
Eliade, Mircea: Shamanism, 234, 250, 262
Eliot, T.S.: professional work, 16; religious faith, 31; TH reads at school, 53; TH idealizes, 92–3; likes TH’s The Hawk in the Rain, 127, 132; congratulates TH on poetry, 145–6; at Faber party, 163; entertains TH and SP, 168–9; poetic style, 179–80; reads Lupercal, 201; speaking voice, 231; death, 252; on impersonality of great art, 331; verse drama, 332; myths and archetypes, 339; Sweeney character, 409; and Fisher King, 412; influence on TH, 464; on English culture, 501; ‘The Death of Saint Narcissus’, 93; Four Quartets, 93; ‘Journey of the Magi’, 322; ‘Little Gidding’, 31; The Waste Land, 89, 93, 239, 293, 486
Eliot, Valerie, 168, 485
Elizabeth I, Queen, 324–5, 462, 488, 538, 541
Elizabeth, Queen Mother: TH fishes with, 4, 483; TH publishes poems for, 420, 486–7; favours Lupercal, 472; TH inscribes book for, 485; stays in London in war, 488; and TH’s recovering from cancer, 502; TH stays near, 516–17; attends TH’s memorial service, 543
Elkington, John: The Poisoned Womb, 426
Ellis, A.E.: The Rack, 352
‘Elm’ (SP; poem), 184
Eltisley Avenue, Newnham village, near Cambridge, 124, 126
‘Emily Brontë’ (TH; poem), 394, 397
Emory University, Atlanta, 500, 555
Empty Space, The (Peter Brook manifesto), 307
Encounter (magazine), 236–7, 296
England: TH on, 229–30
Enright, D.J., 367
Enzensberger, Hans, 252
‘Epiphany’ (TH; poem), 13
‘Error’ (TH; poem), 199–200
Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of, 472
Eugene Saxton Grant: awarded to SP, 178
Euripides: Alcestis, 504, 527, 532–6; The Bacchae, 333
Evans, Matthew, 504–5
Evening Standard, 488
‘Event’ (earlier ‘Quarrel’; SP; poem), 187
‘Evolution of “Sheep in Fog”, The’ (TH; essay), 491
Exeter University: awards honorary doctorate to TH, 415
Faas, Ekbert, 337–8
Faber Book of Fishing (unfinished), 423
Faber Book of Verse for Younger People (ed. TH and Heaney), 386–7
Faber and Faber (publishers): publish The Hawk in the Rain, 127; accept TH’s Lupercal, 153, 167, 201; entertaining, 168; joint publication of TH and Thom Gunn, 179; Susan Alliston works at, 203–4; contract with TH, 235; publish Ariel, 236; await third work from TH, 246; publish Wodwo, 248, 252; publish Crow, 294; publish Season Songs, 326; publish Gaudete, 333–4; publish Moortown, 343; publish The Art of Sylvia Plath, 345; publish Remains of Elmet, 391; publish TH’s Tree Books, 395; agree to publish Devon rivers book, 407; publish Wolfwatching, 428; publish Emily Dickinson selection, 458; delay TH’s Shakespeare anthology, 461; and Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, 467; publish Sacred Earth Dramas, 485; publish The Mermaid’s Purse, 489; announce TH’s death, 541; publish TH’s Collected Poems (2003), 548; see also Monteith, Charles
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