The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I

by Thomas Stearns Eliot, Christopher Ricks

  Charlotte C. Eliot’s biography 597, 1072;

  knew Lincoln 603;

  writes Nunc dimittis 766;

  temperance cause and supporter of the Union 960;

  founder of Mary Institute 1211

  Eliot’s Club: II 216

  Elizabeth I: 677

  Elyot, Sir Thomas: 926; The Governour 620, 933;

  “Tace et fac” 931

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo: 432–433; The Adirondacs 746;

  Blight 1087;

  Brahma 512, 734;

  Experience 1093;

  History 502, 505;

  May-Day 747;

  The Problem 643;

  Self-Reliance 381, 382, 384, 498, 500, 504–505, 1040, 1070;

  The Sphinx 1102;

  Spiritual Laws 739;

  The Visit 379–80

  Empson, William: II 41; “painfully suffering soul” 416;

  TSE and Proust 428;

  “possible Empsonism” II 526;

  Argufying 776;

  Seven Types of Ambiguity 310, 626, 1060, 1213

  English language: and French 460–61; language of the New English Bible 743;

  TSE as American or English writer 886;

  “the best that the English language could do for me” 1011;

  dead words 1016;

  whether moribund 1016–17

  Epstein, Jacob: 1164, II 183

  Euphorion: 1112

  “F. M.”: (see headnote to Index of Identifying Titles for TSE’s prose 1253): II 62; on Woolf 357, 498, 631;

  on Proust 478;

  on Gilbert and Sullivan 394;

  on William Archer 506;

  “cut the cards” 809;

  “exposure of spring” 998;

  Diary of the Rive Gauche 409, 644, 664, 822;

  Fête Galante 814;

  Letters of the Moment 394, 506, 512, 603, 621, 648, 766, 776, 979, 998, 1129, 1181,

  (and “Fresca couplets”) II 367–68;

  Necesse est Perstare 676;

  Night Club 1009;

  Perque Domos Ditis Vacuas 1008, 1013–14, 1167–68

  Faber & Faber: “our literary reputation” 578; Ariel Poems series 757–59, 885, 1057;

  catalogues 757, 843, 885, 896, 959, 985, 995, 1046, 1053, 1055;

  poetry publishing 758, 1058, 1223;

  TSE’s responsibilities 843;

  paranormal titles 982;

  agricultural titles 988;

  Sesame series 996, 1008, 1215, II 296;

  TSE’s fire watching duties 1002;

  Morgan the cat joins firm 1212;

  Book Committee II 45;

  Faber & Gwyer II 77, 136, 366;

  inadequate emoluments II 216.

  See also Crawley, W. J.; de la Mare, Richard; Faber, Geoffrey; Kennerley, Morley; Monteith, Charles; Morley, F. V. (Frank); Wolpe, Berthold; Wolpe, Margaret

  Faber, Enid: II 38–40, 53, 221, 227, 622

  Faber, Geoffrey: letters from TSE 660, 743, 807, 843, 850, 954, 972, 1058, 1223; comments on Four Quartets 964, 969–75, 987, 999;

  Swift 1024;

  knighthood 1215–17;

  Hampstead residence 886, 1209;

  epistle in heroic couplets 1211–12;

  call to the Bar 1217;

  All Souls, Oxford 1217, II 216;

  “genially tolerant” as chairman of Faber & Faber II 39;

  editor of John Gay II 218;

  Latin poet II 232;

  “An Answer to the Foregoing Poem” II 214;

  The Buried Stream 1063;

  Nobody knows how I feel about you II 224;

  The Pattern of Freedom 502, 873

  Faber, Tom: II 39, 57; “a promising youth” II 214

  Fabre-Luce, Jenny (Mme. Roland de Margerie) II 210, 235

  Fawkes, Guy: 716, 718, 719

  Ferrar, Nicholas: 607, 989, 990, 1000

  Ficke, Arthur Davison: defends TSE against charge of plagiarism 430

  film: see cinema

  Fireside: childhood magazine 497, 522, 693, 842, 1109, 1118, 1163, II 40, 150–51

  Firuski, Maurice: buys TSE drafts from Aiken II 580–81

  FitzGerald, Edward: 470, 473–74, 511; Agamemnon 475;

  The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 392, 619, 957, 1064, 1115, 1125

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott: jazz age 788–89; The Great Gatsby 788–89;

  This Side of Paradise 611

  Flanagan, Hallie: 784, 813, 839; première of Sweeney Agonistes 800–803, 810

  Flaubert, Gustave: Bouvard et Pécuchet 1087;

  Madame Bovary 389, 411, 444, 624–25, 1134–35

  Fletcher, John Gould: 893; advocate of TSE 366;

  The Red Gates 493, 673

  Flint, F. S.: 391, 425, 465, 518

  Ford, Ford Madox: 436, 488; Antwerp 915

  Ford, John: The Broken Heart II 265; The Lover’s Melancholy 1025;

  ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore 423

  Forster, E. M.: on The Waste Land 577; Abinger Harvest 592;

  Howards End 605, 679;

  The Longest Journey 636

  fortune-telling: 498, 610–11, 802, 809. See also astrology.

  Foster, Jeanne Robert 557, 560–63, 584–85, II 363–64

  Foster, Stephen C.: “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair” 384–85

  Fox Club (Harvard): II 72, 566

  France, Anatole: 457, 1082; Convictions 517

  Franck, Henri: 457

  François, Duc de La Rochefoucald: see La Rochefoucauld, François, Duc de

  Frankau, Gilbert: One of Us 638, 642, 650, 658

  Frazer, James: 435, 661; ed. of Apollodorus 663;

  The Golden Bough 72, 453, 589, 590–91, 601, 610–12, 618–19, 720, 722, 785, 876, 915, 1135, 1156, 1176, 1178, 1190

  Freeman, E. A.: 428

  Freud, Sigmund: 578, 591, 1037, 1149

  Frost, Robert: 355, II 172; TSE toast to 365;

  “universality” 851;

  The Road Not Taken 909

  Fry, Roger: 462, 569, 644–45; Vision and Design II 156, 347

  Fuller, B. A. G.: visited by Russell 435; The Problem of Evil in Plotinus 537

  Fuller, Thomas: Scripture Observations 637

  Gallup, Donald: publishes Pound’s translation of Dans le Restaurant 526; discovery of drafts of The Waste Land and March Hare 584–85;

  TSE’s forms of address 845;

  assists Hayward with Poems Written in Early Youth 1066;

  proposes printing of A Practical Possum 1202

  Gardiner, Stephen: 480

  Gardner, Isabella Stewart: 443, 1164; Museum 402;

  correspondence 410

  Gascoigne, George: The Complaynt of Phylomene 602, 628

  Gascoyne, David: II 47

  Gaskell, E. C.: Cranford 397

  Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri: 364, 1164

  Gauguin, Paul: 813, 1128

  Gautier, Judith: 385

  Gautier, Théophile: 487, 517; influence on TSE 458;

  Apollonie 436–7;

  L’Art 538;

  Bûchers et tombeaux 530;

  Carmen 532;

  Chinoiserie 1150;

  Clair de lune sentimental 447, 602;

  Fantaisies d’hiver 646;

  L’Hippopotame 522;

  Nostalgies d’obélisques 1102;

  La Nue 377;

  Tristesse en mer 448–49;

  Variations sur le carnaval de Venise 488, 495

  Gay, John: II 218; The Elephant and the Bookseller II 219

  Gerstäcker, Friedrich: Germelshausen 940

  Gibbon, Edward: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 643

  Gide, André: 459, 528

  Gilbert, W. S.: The Ape and the Lady 502; The Bab Ballads 1113, II 43;

  The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo 821;

  The Mountebanks 1119;

  Thespis 1117

  Gilbert, W. S. and Arthur Sullivan: 394; The Gondoliers 1083;

  Ruddigore 398, 1127;

  Iolanthe 815;

  The Mikado 111
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  godchildren: see Faber, Tom; Tandy, Alison; Morley, Susanna; Roberts, Adam Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: on serenity 744; Epirrhema 405;

  Faust 1112

  Goldsmith, Oliver: An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature II 213, 214; She Stoops to Conquer 506;

  The Vicar of Wakefield 75, 668

  Goupil Gallery: 1164

  Gourmont, Remy de: 457; La Culture des idées 629, 1086;

  Litanies de la rose 422;

  Physique de l’amour 483, 644, 666–67, 1101, 1121

  Graham, R. B. Cunninghame: 765

  Graves, Robert: 545;

  “reading of poets” II 253

  Gray, John: Claire de Lune 1109; Poem 1090;

  Saint Sebastian: On a Picture 538, 1143;

  Sonnet: Translated from Paul Verlaine 1076;

  The Twelve Precious Stones 1172

  Gray, Thomas: The Bard 1098; Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 663, 1049, 1153, 1199, II 197;

  Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College 1097;

  Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat II 47, 57

  Green, T. H.: Prolegomena to Ethics 1084, 1088, 1126

  Gregory, Eric: prints Noctes Binanianæ II 207

  Grierson, Herbert: 445, 484

  Grieve, C. M.: see MacDiarmid, Hugh

  Gunn, Neil M.: II 174

  Haigh-Wood, Maurice: 1167

  Hale, Emily: 903–904, 1199, 1212; correspondence with TSE 514;

  TSE visits in New Hampshire 851;

  assists Mrs. Perkins with lecture II 603

  Hardy, Thomas: “blind to the merits of” 355; and suppression of After Strange Gods 849, 1078;

  The Abbey Mason 376;

  The Darkling Thrush 1076

  Harris, Charles K.: “After the Ball” 394

  Harris, Joel Chandler: The Stories of Uncle Remus II 37; Brer Rabbit II 37, 288

  Harrison, Jane Ellen: 687, 1052

  Hart-Davis, Rupert: II 466; records with TSE II 234;

  The Waste Land copied out by TSE for auction II 369, 466

  Harte, Bret: II 65

  Harton, F. P.: 922

  Harvard University: reading the dead 355; Charles Eliot Norton lectures 396, 848;

  TSE’s doctorate 434, 1148;

  Bertrand Russell at 435–36, 507;

  philosophy 449;

  Sheldon Fellowship 459;

  conversations with Matthiessen 487;

  Laodicean Club 523;

  gifts from TSE 590, 995, 1194;

  fortune-telling games 598;

  dances 599;

  Fox Club 1074;

  Temperance Society 1075;

  Commencement 1092;

  Harvard Advocate 443, 539, 750, 752, 824, 1076, 1083, 1101, 1102, 1150

  (TSE as an editor 1064;

  TSE special issues 1064);

  Harvard Crimson 435, 997;

  Harvard Lampoon 1073

  COURSES: “Florentine Painting” (Forbes) 433, 538, 1143; “The Literary History of England and its relations to that of the Continent” (Schofield) 440;

  “Architecture, sculpture and painting in Egypt, Assyria, and Greece” (Chase) 451;

  “The Philosophy of History” (Santayana) 484, 725;

  “Philosophy 10” 540;

  “The Roman Novel: Petronius and Apuleius” (Moore) 593;

  in German 608;

  “Elementary Sanskrit” (Lanman) 641, 976;

  “Philosophical Sanskrit” (Woods) 540, 641, 976, 1160;

  Greek Literature (Parker and Cary) 663;

  “Seminary in Metaphysics” (Bakewell) 695;

  “Seminary in Psychology” (Munsterberg) 1085

  FRIENDS: see Aiken, Conrad; Seeger, Alan; Thayer, Scofield; Spencer, Theodore; Tinckom-Fernandez, W. G.

  TEACHERS: see Babbitt, Irving; Lanman, C. R.; Royce, Josiah; Schofield, William Henry; Woods, James Haughton

  Hatch, Roger Conant: II 561

  Hawker, Robert Stephen: 1149

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “acutely sensitive to the situation” 407; “genius for titles” 432;

  The Blithedale Romance 405, 410, 424, 453, 665, 1027, 1092, 1094, 1129;

  Buds and Bird Voices 1086;

  The House of Seven Gables 472;

  The Marble Faun 442–43, 606;

  Mosses from an Old Manse II 64;

  The Scarlet Letter 472, 634, 1002, 1097, II 64;

  Tanglewood Tales 1073

  Hayward, John: 428; annotations to French editions of The Waste Land and Four Quartets 349, 588, 900;

  flat shared with TSE 474;

  Bina Gardens 506,

  Cambridge invitations 509;

  spoof correspondence with TSE 519, 636;

  collection of TSE materials 594, 691, 897, 962, 981, 1066, 1215;

  TSE encourages to write a Recherche du temps perdu 666, 951, 1225;

  gives TSE Andrewes’s Preces Privitatae 761;

  London Letter in New York Sun 761, 780, 803, 827, 883;

  edits selections from TSE 849;

  “Tarantula’s Special News Service” 885;

  objects to title “Kensington Quartets” 893;

  acknowledgements in Four Quartets 898;

  comments on East Coker 929–57;

  Hayward’s Queries about The Dry Salvages 963–87;

  muscular dystrophy 972;

  composition of Little Gidding 990–95;

  comments on Little Gidding 999–1044;

  editions of Donne and Swift 1002;

  edits Poems Written in Early Youth 1066, 1068;

  on The Death of Saint Narcissus 1155;

  The cowlover’s retort 1199;

  sent A Proclamation 1200;

  drawings for Practical Cats II 47–49, 53;

  hosts dinners II 207;

  Love’s Helicon (ed.) II 210, 268;

  Mon Faust (Valéry) II 231;

  Penguin Book of English Verse (ed.) 623

  Hebert, Gabriel: typescript of East Coker II 493

  Hegel, G. W. F.: “Erhebung” 917; Lectures on the Philosophy of History 505, 908, 1113, 1115;

  The Phenomenology of Mind 745–46

  Hemingway, Ernest: “writer of tender sentiment” II 59

  Henderson, Alice Corbin: assistant editor of Poetry 367–68, 557–58, 772, 1163

  Henley, W. E.: In Hospital 377, 394–95, 692; To W. R. 682

  Henry, O.: The Trimmed Lamp 1075

  Heraclitus: 905–907, 920, 928, 978, 1003

  Herbert of Cherbury, Edward: 928–29

  Herbert, George: 954; visits Little Gidding 989;

  Affliction 752, 1157;

  Christmas 978;

  The Church-Porch 947;

  The Collar 1192;

  Death 841, 847;

  The Elixir 1092;

  The Flower 1092;

  Outlandish Proverbs 621, 767;

  Repentance 744;

  The Sacrifice 778, 781;

  Whitsunday 1038

  Herodotus: 610

  Herrick, Robert: Another Grace for a Child 841; A Christmas Carol 999

  Heygate, W. E.: 651

  Heywood, Thomas: 420; The English Traveller 616;

  A Woman Killed with Kindness 420, 700

  Hill, Rowland: 525

  Hinkley, Eleanor: sent The Jim Jum Bears II 609

  Hobbes, Thomas: 920; Leviathan 1151

  Hodgson, Aurelia: 838, 843, 846, II 40

  Hodgson, Ralph: 838–39, 841–42; fails to draw for Practical Cats II 48;

  The Birdcatcher 843;

  The House across the Way 545;

  The Journeyman 531

  Hofmannsthal, Hugo von: 804–805

  Hogarth Press: printing and binding of Poems (1919) II 337–38; distributes Commerce II 136.

  See also Woolf, Leonard and Woolf, Virginia

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell: Medical Essays 419

  Homer: Iliad: 1171; “greatest war poem of Europe” 1051;

  XXXIII – 1172;

  Odyssey I – 919, 1049;


  II – 1137;

  III – 1108;

  V – 1151;

  VI – 501;

  IX – 501;

  X – 1073;

  XI – 667;

  XII – 1101;

  XIX – 661;

  XXIV – 919

  Hood, Thomas: 524; Lines in a Young Lady’s Album 1100;

  Faithless Nelly Gray 1107

  Hope, Laurence (Adela Nicolson): Kashmiri Song 1145

  Hopkins, Gerard M.: II 458; Barnfloor and Winepress 949;

  The May Magnificat 929–30

  Horace: Epistles 1083; Odes 492, 695, 980, 1196

  Hoskins, John: 485

  Housman, A. E.: The Amphisbæna 310; Last Poems 1002, 1049;

  Oh who is that young sinner 659;

  R.L.S. 663;

  A Shropshire Lad 616, 832, 999, 1091, II 185, 217

  Howells, W. D.: Forlorn 1142; Pastels in Prose Introduction 404;

  Lexington 668

  Hulme, T. E.: “I can’t think of anything as good as two of his poems since Blake” 448; Above the Dock 447;

  A City Sunset 425;

  Poem: Abbreviated from the Conversation of Mr. T. E. H. 1168;

  Speculations 448, 707, 738