Young Eliot (102 page)

Character and characteristics
: anxiety about masculinity; anxiety about sexuality; appearance; childhood anxieties about the body; critical judgements of others; editorial astuteness; interest in natural science; interest in ragtime and music hall; language proficiency; love of childish jokes; musical tastes; nostalgia for America; plays chess; punctiliousness; self-consciousness about ears; sexual gaucheness; sexuality; shyness; speaking voice/speech

Health
: assessed for military service; breathing and nasal problems; headaches and sciatica; hernia and wearing of a truss; links between illness and creativity; lung problems; minor ailments; mother's anxiety for; ‘nervous sexual attacks'; nervous strain; neuralgia; ‘neurasthenic'; operation on his nose; rheumatism; scarlet fever; suffers from ‘cerebral anaemia' in Munich; treatment by Dr Vittoz for nervous problems; weight loss

Literary influences
: Aiken, Conrad; Andrewes, Lancelot; Aristophanes; Arthurian myths and the Grail quest; Augustine, St; Baudelaire, Charles;
Bhagavad Gita
; Browning, Robert; Burns, Robert; Byron, George Gordon, Lord; Carroll, Lewis; Cocteau, Jean; Conan Doyle, Arthur; Conrad, Joseph; Dante; Davidson, John; Dickens, Charles; Donne, John; Dryden, John; Fitzgerald, Edward; French Symbolists; Gautier, Théophile; Goldsmith, Oliver; Gourmont, Rémy de; Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Heraclitus;
The Ingoldsby Legends
; James, Henry; Jonson, Ben; Joyce, James; Keats, John; Khayyám, Omar; Kipling, Rudyard; Kyd, Thomas; La Rochefoucauld, François de; Laforgue, Jules; Lear, Edward; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Lowell, James Russell; Mallarmé, Stéphane; Malory, Sir Thomas; Marvell, Andrew; Maurras, Charles; Milton, John; Nerval, Gérard de; Ovid; Petronius; Philippe, Charles-Louis; Poe, Edgar Allan; Pope, Alexander; Pound, Ezra; Reid, Mayne; Renaissance drama; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Shakespeare, William; Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Spenser, Edmund; Stendhal; Stevenson, Robert Louis; Stoker, Bram; Swinburne, Algernon Charles; Tennyson, Alfred, Lord;
Upanishads
; Verlaine, Paul; Virgil; Wagner, Richard; Webster, John; Xenophon

Religious influences
: early reading about non-Christian religion; fascination with martyrdom; interest in Buddhism and Eastern thought; interest in Catholicism; interest in mysticism; Puritan family influence; religious anxiety; and scepticism; Unitarian background

Views and comments
: on academic life; admiration for Ezra Pound's poetry; anti-Semitism; on being American in England; on Bertrand Russell; on Browning; on the composition of poetry; on Cubism; on difficulty in poetry; on the English; on English literary life; on English women; francophilia; on Henry James; on his early commitment to poetry; on his literary success; on his marriage; on his New England ancestry; on his responsibility towards Vivien; on his sense of displacement; on the influence of his grandfather; on James Joyce's
Ulysses
; on Katherine Mansfield; on marriage; on national cultural identity; and Norbert Wiener's ‘Relativism'; on Paris; on studying Indian philosophy; on Virginia Woolf; on war; on writing
The Waste Land

Poetic works: see separate entries for
‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and
The Waste Land
; ‘Ballade pour la grosse Lulu' (
1911
); ‘The Boston Evening Transcript'; ‘Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar'; ‘The Confidential Clerk'; ‘Conversation Galante'; ‘A Cooking Egg'; ‘Dans le Restaurant'; ‘The Death of Saint Narcissus'; ‘The Death of the Duchess'; ‘Eeldrop and Appleplex' (short story); ‘Entretien dans un parc';
Four Quartets
; ‘Gerontion'; ‘The Hippopotamus'; ‘The Hollow Men'; ‘Hysteria'; ‘Interlude in London' (
1911
); ‘La Figlia Che Piange'; ‘Le Spectateur' (later retitled ‘Le Directeur'); ‘The Love Song of St Sebastian'; ‘Lune de Miel'; ‘Marina'; ‘Mélange Adultère de Tout'; ‘Morning at the Window'; ‘Mr Apollinax'; ‘Mr Eliot's Sunday Morning Service';
Murder in the Cathedral
; ‘Nocturne' (
1909
); ‘Ode on Independence Day, July
4
th
1918
'
232
; ‘Opera' (
1909
); ‘Petit Epître'; ‘Portrait of a Lady'; ‘Preludes'; ‘Reflections on
Vers Libre
' (essay); ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night'; ‘Song to the Opherian'; ‘Spleen'; ‘Suppressed Complex'; ‘Sweeney Agonistes'; ‘Sweeney Among the Nightingales'; ‘Sweeney Erect'; ‘Tristan Corbière'; ‘The Triumph of Bullshit'; ‘Whispers of Immortality'

Prose works
:
Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
(
1918
); ‘The Lesson of Baudelaire'; ‘London Letters' (written for
Dial
magazine);
The Sacred Wood
;
Selected Essays
(
1932
); ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent'; ‘Ulysses, Order, and Myth'

Eliot, Valerie (
née
Fletcher)

Eliot, Vivien (
née
Haigh-Wood): characteristics and background; engagement with Charles Buckle; relationship with Scofield Thayer; meets TSE; marries TSE; belief in TSE's literary genius; persuades TSE to stay in England; ‘honeymoon' in Eastbourne; relationship with Bertrand Russell; takes dance lessons; fears for TSE joining up; corresponds with TSE's mother; attempts career as an actress; spends time in a nursing home; unwillingness to travel to America; and
The Waste Land
; meets TSE's mother; makes appointment for TSE with nerve specialist; proposes name for
Criterion
; Aldous Huxley on; Bertrand Russell on; Lady Ottoline Morrell on; Virginia Woolf on

Ill-health:
childhood tuberculosis; colitis; dental work; doctors unable to diagnose; exhaustion, insomnia, mental strain; eye problems; falls ill immediately after marriage; fever; laryngitis; manipulative use of; migraines; mood swings as a girl; nervous complaints; neuralgia; physically undeveloped; rheumatism; treatments for; TSE blames himself for; TSE's mother gives advice on; Aldous Huxley on; Henry Eliot on

Eliot, William Greenleaf (TSE's grandfather)

Elkin Matthews (publisher)

Ellmann, Richard

Ellwood, Charles Abraham

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

English Review
(journal)

Epstein, Jacob

Epstein, Jean,
La Poésie d'aujourd'hui

Etchells, Frederick

Eucken, Rudolf Christoph

Fabian Society

Fauchois, René

Finck, Hermann

Fitzgerald, Edward,
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Flaubert, Gustave

Fletcher, Graham Bruce

Fletcher, John Gould

Flint, F. S.

Fokine, Mikhail

Forbes, Edward Waldo

Ford, Ford Madox (Ford Hermann Hueffer)

France, Anatole

Franke, Kuno

Frazer, J. G.;
The Golden Bough

Freud, Sigmund

Frost, Robert

Fry, Roger

Fuller, Benjamin Apthorpe

Gardner, Isabella Stewart

Garsington, Oxfordshire

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri

George V, King of England

Gertler, Mark

Gide, André

Gilbert, Charles

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gold, Matthew

Goldsmith, Oliver

Goossens, Eugene

Gordon, Lyndall

Gosse, Sir Edmund

Gourmont, Rémy de

Gozzaldi, Amy de

Grant, Duncan

Graves, Robert

Griffin, Nicholas

Haigh-Wood, Charles

Haigh-Wood, Maurice; war experiences

Haigh-Wood, Vivien:
see
Eliot, Vivien (
née
Haigh-Wood)

Hale, Edward Everett

Hale, Emily: background and upbringing; in the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club; TSE falls in love with; writes to TSE; TSE sends roses to; TSE still in love with when he marries Vivien; TSE asks Eleanor Hinkley for news of; TSE writes to

Hall, Dick

Hallowell, Robert Canby

Happich family

Hargrove, Nancy

Harris, W. T.

Harvard University; Fogg Museum; Harvard faculty; Harvard Union

Hatch, Roger Conant

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Held, Anna

Heraclitus

Herbert, George

Hesse, Hermann

Hinkley, Barbara

Hinkley, Eleanor (TSE's cousin): summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts with TSE; neighbour of TSE in Cambridge, Massachusetts; interest in drama; introduces TSE to Emily Hale; TSE's correspondence with

Hocking, William Ernest

Hoernlé, R. F. A.

Hogarth Press

Holt, Edwin B.

Homer, Winslow

Horne, Edward Hastings

Horne, John Van

Hosmer, James Kendall

Howarth, Herbert

Hueffer, Ford Hermann:
see
Ford, Ford Madox

Hugo, Jean

Hulme, T. E.

Hume, David

Huneker, James

Hunt, Edward Eyre

Huntington, E. V.

Husserl, Edmund

Hutchinson, Barbara

Hutchinson, Jack

Hutchinson, Jeremy

Hutchinson, Mary: at Bosham, West Sussex; relationship with Clive Bell; relationship with TSE; admires
Prufrock and Other Observations
; friendship with Vivien Eliot; TSE publishes short story by; supplies TSE's address to Virginia Woolf; sexuality; on TSE; and Ezra Pound's ‘Bel Esprit' scheme; on
The Waste Land

Huxley, Aldous; on Vivien Eliot

Huxley, Julian

Huxley, Juliette

Huysmans, Joris-Karl

Imagism

Inge, W. R.

International Journal of Ethics

James, Henry

James, William

Janet, Pierre

Jepson, Edgar

Jerome, Jerome K.

Joachim, Harold

Johnston, J. A. H.

Jones, David

Jones, Jane

Jones, Stephen

Jonson, Ben

Joplin, Scott

Jourdain, Philip

Journal of Speculative Philosophy

Joyce, James; TSE's admiration for; meets TSE in Paris; TSE on;
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
;
Ulysses

Julius, Anthony

Kant, Immanuel

Kaufmann, Julia Juvet

Keith, Elmer

Kelly, E. H.

Keynes, John Maynard

King, Henry

King, Willie

Kingsley, Charles

Kipling, Rudyard

Kite, Thomas Brown

Kittredge, George Lyman

Knopf, Alfred A. (publisher): publishes TSE's booklet on Ezra Pound; turns down
Prufrock and Other Observations
; turns down book of prose criticism; publishes
Poems
(1920); publishes
The Sacred Wood
; turns down opportunity to publish
The Waste Land

Kyd, Thomas,
The Spanish Tragedy

La Rochefoucauld, François de

La Rose, Pierre

Laforgue, Jules

Lake, Frederick Clinton

Lambert, Gerard

Langfeld, Herbert Sidney

Lanman, Charles Rockwell

Larbaud, Valéry

Larisch, Marie

Lawrence, D. H.

Lear, Edward

Léautaud, Paul,
Poètes d'Aujourd'hui

Lesourd, Homer W.

Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien

Lewis, Wyndham: and
Blast
magazine; first impression of TSE; unwillingness to publish ‘offensive' material; exhibits in the Second London Group Exhibition (1915); TSE socialises with in London; planned New York Vorticist exhibition; serves in the First World War; sexually explicit story published in the
Little Review
; TSE's admiration for; TSE arranges contribution to the
Athenaeum
; and
Tyro
magazine; meets James Joyce in Paris with TSE; holidays in France with TSE; TSE's friendship with; TSE shows
The Waste Land
to

Lionberger, Isaac H.

Lionberger, Margaret

Lippi, Fillippo

Lippman, Walter

Literary World
(journal)

Little, Clarence

Little, Leon Magaw

Little Review
(Chicago journal)

Liveright, Horace

Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury

Lloyd, Marie

Lloyd George, David

Lockwood, Ellen Dean

Loeb, James

Loisy, Alfred

London Library

Long, Haniel

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Loti, Pierre

‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The': TSE completes while in Munich (1911); TSE shows to Conrad Aiken; TSE reads aloud to the ‘Coterie' (Oxford poetry reading group); published in
Poetry
magazine (1915); published in
Prufrock and Other Observations
; read aloud by Katherine Mansfield;

Themes and influences
: anxieties about masculinity; Arthur Symons and Laforgue; Charles-Louis Philippe's
Bubu de Montparnasse
; criticism of James Huneker; fog imagery in; influence of Laforgue;
The Ingoldsby Legends
; ‘Interlude in London'; Jean Verdenal; name taken from St Louis Prufrock Furniture Co.; Oscar Wilde's
Salomé
; ‘Pervigilium Veneris'; poetic form; Seeger's translation of Dante's
Inferno
; sense of age; title anticipated by Longfellow's ‘The Courtship of Miles Standish'; TSE's study of Italian art

Lovejoy, A. O.

Lowell, Abbott Lawrence

Lowell, Amy

Lowell, James Russell

Lugano, Switzerland

Lynd, Robert

MacAvity, Ronald A.

MacCarthy, Molly

MacDiarmid, Hugh

Mackenzie, Compton

MacVeagh, Rogers

Mahler, Jacob