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T. S. Eliot the Poems, Volume 2

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by T. S. Eliot


  Matthew 65;

  (Apocrypha) 1 Maccabees 228

  Blake, William: 376, 458; Milton 181;

  The Tyger 143

  Bolo: derivations of name 247–48

  Bottome, Phyllis: 223

  Bowen, Elizabeth: 235

  Bowra, Maurice: 198

  Brace, Donald: 421, 429

  Browne, E. Martin 54, 70, 179, 469

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: A Musical Instrument 258

  Browning, Robert: 291; How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix 266;

  The Flight of the Duchess 594;

  Meeting at Night 594;

  Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 281

  Buber, Martin: “Great Man” 156

  Burns, Robert: “modest claim” as writer of songs 172; Auld Lang Syne 174;

  Oh Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast 173;

  Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation 195;

  Tam o’Shanter 173, 174;

  Tam Sampson’s Elegy 174;

  The Twa Dogs 174

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord: Beppo 283; Don Juan II – 274;

  XI – 66

  Caetani, Marguerite: 417; commissions translation of Anabase 135–37, 146;

  Commerce 136;

  Ash-Wednesday 422

  Campbell, Roy: 199

  Carmichael, Alexander: Carmina Gadelica 172

  Carroll, Lewis: 39, 151; The Hunting of the Snark 60;

  Jabberwocky 59, 60, 144, 180;

  Sylvie and Bruno 151;

  Through the Looking-Glass 214, 268, 275;

  The Walrus and the Carpenter 183, 278

  Catholic Anthology: “has not done very well, in spite of the name of Yeats” 252

  cats: Asparagus see Gus; Big Bravo 40, 57;

  Bustopher Jones 71;

  Carbucketry 52;

  Dick Whittington’s 70, 165;

  Dirghakarna 38;

  Dolabella 54;

  Ermyntrude (formerly Gertrude) 54;

  Great Rumpuscat 65;

  Grizabella 52, 624;

  Growltiger 44, 58;

  Gus 49, 56;

  James Buz-James 74;

  Jellicle 38, 43, 44, 54, 57, 61;

  Jellylorum 55;

  Lilliecat 51–52;

  Macavity 66–68;

  Mirza Murad Ali Beg 52, 57;

  Mister Mistoffelees 65;

  Morgan 43, 75–76, 639–41;

  Mungojerrie 62;

  Noilly Prat 52;

  Old Deuteronomy 63;

  Old Gumbie 40, 57;

  Pettipaws 74;

  Porpentine 40, 52;

  Pouncival 52;

  The Practical Cat 38, 40;

  Rumpelteazer 62;

  Rum Tum Tugger 60–61;

  Sillabub 52;

  Skimbleshanks 72–73;

  Tantamile (also Tantomile) 52;

  Tumblecat 40;

  Wiskuscat 52;

  see also headnote to The Naming of Cats.

  Cats (musical): 50–53

  Chaplin, Charlie: 203, 253

  Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Canterbury Tales Prologue 227

  cheese: 168–69; Society for the Preservation of Ancient Cheeses 213;

  “rather fine Red Cheshire” 213

  Chesterton, G. K.: 64

  clubs: Harvard 72; London 71–72.

  See also Eliot’s Club

  Clutton-Brock, Arthur: deprecated 256

  Cobden-Sanderson, Richard: 366

  Cobden-Sanderson, Sally: 238–39; verse envelopes addressed to 157–58

  Colefax, Sibyl: 516; organises reading 253

  Coleridge, S. T.: Dejection 223; Kubla Khan 160;

  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 228, 261;

  Sibylline Leaves 217

  Conan Doyle, Arthur: The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans 69; The Adventure of the Naval Treaty 69;

  The Final Problem 66–69;

  The Musgrave Ritual 67;

  Spiritualists and the Hidden Hand 68

  Cousens, Hilderic: 183

  Crawley, W. J.: 46, 202

  Curwen Press: 421, 453

  Dante: Sayers translation 197

  Davies, Geoffrey: 183, 190

  Davies, Hugh Sykes: 47

  Day Lewis, C.: 199, 297, 466

  de la Mare, Richard: 45, 58, 135, 201, 421, 424, 437, 486; Noctes Binanianæ 209–10

  Dickens, Charles: Our Mutual Friend 61; Pickwick Papers 73, 74;

  TSE’s “Pickwick Paper (Advanced)” 48, 59

  Dobrée, Bonamy: 58, 71, 238–39; on Anabasis translation 141, 144, 145;

  on Bolovians 247;

  Difficulties of a Statesman typescript 454;

  Improper Rhymes 257–69

  dogs: Pollicle 41–43, 162; “book of Consequential Dogs” 52;

  “a simple soul” 74

  Dunbar, William: Lament for the Makers 172

  Eliot, Henry Ware, Jr.: leaves TSE a new typewriter 360; gifts to Harvard 150–51;

  The Rumble Murders 39–40

  Eliot, Henry Ware, Sr.: 40, 272

  Eliot, Vivien: drafts of The Waste Land 361

  Eliot’s Club: 216

  Empson, William: 41; “possible Empsonism” 526

  Epstein, Jacob: 183

  “F. M.” (see headnote to Index of Identifying Titles for TSE’s Prose, I 1253): 62; Letters of the Moment and “Fresca couplets” 367–68

  Faber & Faber: Book Committee 45; Faber & Gwyer 77, 136, 366;

  inadequate emoluments 216;

  Sesame series 296

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

  Faber, Geoffrey: “genially tolerant” as chairman of Faber & Faber 39; Estates Bursar of All Souls 216;

  editor of John Gay 218;

  Latin poet 232;

  “An Answer to the Foregoing Poem” 214;

  Nobody knows how I feel about you 224

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

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

  Fireside: childhood magazine 40, 150–51

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

  Ford, John: The Broken Heart 265

  Foster, Jeanne Robert: sent typescript Q of The Waste Land 363–64

  Fox Club (Harvard): 72, 566

  Frost, Robert: 172

  Fry, Roger: Vision and Design 156, 347

  Gascoyne, David: 47

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

  Gilbert, W. S.: Bab Ballads 43

  godchildren: see Faber, Tom; Tandy, Alison; Morley, Susanna; Roberts, Adam

  Goldsmith, Oliver: An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature 213, 214

  Graves, Robert: “reading of poets” 253

  Gray, Thomas: Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat 47, 57; Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard 197

  Gregory, Eric: prints Noctes Binanianæ 207

  Grieve, C. M.: see MacDiarmid, Hugh

  Gunn, Neil M.: 174

  Hale, Emily: assists Mrs. Perkins’s lecture 603

  Harris, Joel Chandler: The Stories of Uncle Remus 37;

  Brer Rabbit 37, 288

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

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

  Harte, Bret: 65

  Hatch, Roger Conant: 561

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel: Mosses from an Old Manse 64; The Scarlet Letter 64

  Hayward, John: drawings for Practical Cats 47–49, 53; hosts dinners 207;

  Love’s Helicon 210, 268;

  Mon Faust (Valéry) 231

  Hebert, Gabriel: typescript of East Coker 493

  Hemingway, Ernest: “writer of tender sentiment” 59

  Hinkley, Eleanor: The Jim Jum Bears 609

  Hodgson, Aurelia: 40

  Hodgson, Ralph: fails to draw for Practical Cats 48

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

  Hopkins, Gerard M.: 458

  Housman, A. E.: A Shropsh
ire Lad 185, 217

  Hutchinson, Mary: 422–23; envelope verses 156, 157, 160

  Inventions of the March Hare Notebook 302–304

  Irving, Washington: Tales of a Traveller 56

  James, Henry: The Sense of the Past 68

  Jennings, Richard: 235, 497

  John of the Cross, St.: 449

  Johnson, Jack: 201

  Johnson, Samuel: The Battle of the Pygmies and Cranes 64–65

  Joyce, James: “somewhat sabbatarian mind” 248; Ulysses episodes II (Nestor) 56;

  IX (Scylla and Charybdis) 57;

  XIV (The Oxen of the Sun) 58

  Junius: 449

  Kauffer, E. McKnight: 207, 235, 422

  Keats, John: Ode on a Grecian Urn 223; Ode to a Nightingale 221–22

  Kennerley, Jean: 188–89

  Kennerley, Morley: 75, 189

  Kipling, Rudyard: 57; Captains Courageous 281;

  The Craftsman 61;

  The Jungle Book 223–24;

  The Long Trail 52, 73;

  La Nuit Blanche 68;

  The Outsider 251;

  The Song of the Banjo 68;

  Toomai of the Elephants 223–24

  Layton, Turner and Clarence “Tandy” Johnstone (duo): 224

  Lear, Edward: Nonsense Botany 38; The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 61, 62

  Lewis, P. Wyndham: One-Way Song 288

  Leyris, Pierre: and Noctes Binanianæ 230, 297

  Liveright, Horace: publication of The Waste Land: 363, 365–67

  Lockhart, J. G.: 207

  London: Bina Gardens 207, 230–31; Russell Square 75–77, 198, 641;

  St. Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road 186, 216, 626;

  Tottenham Court Road 615

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth: The Divine Tragedy 56; The Village Blacksmith 147, 279

  Macaulay, Thomas Babington: Lays of Ancient Rome 59–60

  MacDiarmid, Hugh: “good deal of vigour” 172

  Macmurray, John: 181

  Mairet, Philip: 183, 501

  Man in White Spats, the: 53–54 Mardersteig, Giovanni: edition of Four Quartets 298;

  edition of The Waste Land 298;

  emends quotation from Dante 300

  Marlowe, Christopher: Dr. Faustus 66, 142, 219

  Marvell, Andrew: The Nymph Complaining for the death of her Faun 223

  Marx, Groucho: 203

  Menasce, Jean de: translates parts of Ash-Wednesday 421–23

  Menninger, Karl: 222

  Meredith, George: Lucifer in Starlight 60

  Milton Academy: 68

  Milton, John: Areopagitica 288; Lycidas 52;

  On the Lord General Fairfax 226;

  Paradise Lost 70, 227;

  Paradise Regained 63;

  Sonnet 8 (When the assault was intended to the City) 227;

  Sonnet 16 (On his Blindness) 217

  Mirrlees, Emily (Mappie): 76, 174

  Mirrlees, Hope: 75, 174, 198

  Morley, F. V. (Frank): 219; and Noctes Binanianæ 207–209, 220, 268, 286–87;

  Pike’s Farm 167;

  moves to Connecticut 208;

  “push and initiative” 219;

  US edition of Four Quartets 483–84;

  The Mark of the Spider is 666 208;

  My One Contribution to Chess 219

  Morley, Susanna: 39

  Morrell, Ottoline: and The Hollow Men 417; and Ash-Wednesday 422

  Nichols, Robert: 56; “reading of poets” 253

  nonsense: nonsense words 61

  Noyes, Alfred: 180–81

  nursery rhymes: Mother Goose 197; “Boys and girls come out to play” 61, 163;

  “Mary had a little lamb”, 72;

  “Michael Finigan” 264;

  “One finger one thumb” 62;

  “Robin and Richard were two pretty men”, 201;

  “Sing a song of sixpence” 277;

  “With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes” 169

  Page, Patricia Shaw: 165

  Piper, John: 221

  Poe, Edgar Allan: To Helen 228

  Pope, Alexander: 368, 385; The Dunciad 213, 288;

  An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 227;

  The First Book of Statius His Thebais 60

  Possum: “feigning death” 37; “very unpleasant odour” 37;

  possible title for Criterion 37;

  “Old Possum’s Book of ‘Flowers shown to the Children’” 38

  Pound, Dorothy: 37

  Pound, Ezra: annotation on drafts of The Waste Land 359–62; Improper Verses 253–56;

  “Podesta” 256

  practical jokes: 38–39

  Pringle, Alan: 46

  Prokosch, Frederick: “seems a very amiable person” 463; Butterfly Books (and fakes): A Duck in the Park 459;

  Lines to a Persian Cat (decorated manuscript) 458;

  Rannoch, by Glencoe 466;

  Old Man’s Song 467;

  Two Poems 463–64;

  Words for Music 463

  publishing: “sordidly corrupt activity” 216; Jonathan Cape 226;

  Victor Gollancz 226;

  Penguin 63, 197, 228, 297;

  Publishers’ Association 226;

  Swan Sonnenschein 286.

  See also Faber & Faber; Liveright, Horace

  pubs: Bell 59; Bricklayer’s Arms 65;

  Doves 157;

  Fox and French Horn 64;

  Lion 59;

  Wellington Arms 65

  Quinn, John: makes Q typescript of The Waste Land 363

  Read, Herbert: Surrealism 47; The Green Child 47;

  The Knapsack (ed.) 66

  Reckitt, Maurice B.: 183

  Ridler, Anne: 45; types Noctes Binanianæ 208, 210;

  selection of poems in TSE’s Sesame volume 296

  Roberts, Adam: 39

  Rowse, A. L.: 159

  Sadler, Michael: drafts of Marina 437

  Salter, Arthur: 159

  du Sautoy, Peter: 67, 355

  Sayers, Dorothy L.: 197

  Scott, Walter: Bonnie Dundee 200; The Lay of the Last Minstrel 70;

  Proud Maisie 173;

  When the Blue Bonnets Came Over the Border 65

  Scottish literature: 172–73

  Shakespeare, William: Antony and Cleopatra 267; As You Like It 227, 265;

  Coriolanus 228, 290;

  Cymbeline 61, 195;

  Hamlet 69, 71, 143, 181;

  Henry VIII 227;

  King Lear 71;

  Macbeth 141, 227, 313;

  Measure for Measure 449;

  The Merchant of Venice 71;

  Richard III 227;

  Sonnet 126

  (“O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power”) 289

  Shaw, Martin: 37–38; The Builders 598

  Signet, The: 72; manuscript of Marina 433

  Sitwell, Edith: “reading of poets” 253

  Sitwell, Osbert: “reading of poets” 253

  Smart, Christopher: “real feeling for cats” 57

  Spender, Stephen 198–99, 216

  Stead, William Force: discovers Smart’s Jubilate Agno 57; Ash-Wednesday typescript 422

  Swift, Jonathan: 218; Gulliver’s Travels 273;

  The Humble Petition of Frances Harris 186

  Tailhade, Laurent: 243

  Tandy, Alison: 39, 57, 62, 63, 66, 72; TSE offers to help evacuate from London 39

  Tandy, Geoffrey: 39–40, 66, 69; broadcasts of Practical Cats 43–44

  Tandy, Polly: 39–40, 43, 61

  teeth: “plastic” 214

  Tennyson, Alfred: Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height 146; Crossing the Bar 142;

  The Eagle 146;

  Idylls of the King 227;

  Leonine Elegiacs 196;

  Maud 213;

  Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington 288;

  Of old sat Freedom on the heights 145;

  The Poet 143;

  The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet 59, 255;

  Will 146

  Thayer, Scof
ield: 364; typescript of The Waste Land 364–65;

  and The Hollow Men 417–18

  Trevelyan, Mary: 65, 187, 201

  Turner, W. Mc. (Francis): sent manuscript of Little Gidding for Magdalene College Library 511; stuffs manuscript in a drawer 512

  Unitarianism: xi, 58

  Unwin, J. D.: 222

  Valerie’s Own Book: 304–305

  Villon, François: La Belle Heaulmière 52

  Washington, Booker T.: 38

  Watson, James Sibley: typescript of The Waste Land 362–65

  Watts, Isaac: 74

  Webster, John: The Duchess of Malfi 594

  Wesley, Charles: 268; Gentle Jesus 176, 253

  Wilde, Oscar: on Dickens 70

  Williams, Charles: exchange of poems 179–81

  Wilson, John: Noctes Ambrosianæ 207

 

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