Index
abjection 26, 50, 52, 59, 61, 64, 70–73, 79, 84, 86, 90, 105, 110
Aeschylus 61
After Strange Gods: A Primer of Modern Heresy 29, 30, 90–91, 114
Aiken, Conrad 5
Alain-Fournier 4
Aldington, Richard 8, 63
Alfred Knopf Ltd. 8
Alldritt, Keith 95
American South 22
Anaximander 38
Andrewes, Lancelot 56, 82, 108
“Animula” 80
anthropology 27, 28
Ariel poems 80
Aristotle 28, 38
Arnold, Matthew 19, 31, 101, 108
Ash-Wednesday 26, 44, 56, 79, 80, 82–88
Auden, W. H. 89, 93
auditory imagination 101–102
“Aunt Helen” 44, 45
Babbitt, Irving 28
Barth, Karl 100, 102
Baudelaire, Charles 3, 23–24, 41, 108
Becket, Thomas à 16, 88, 107
Belgium 4
Bergson, Henri 3, 28
Bethlehem 80–81
Bhagavad Gita 104
Blake, William 73
Blast 26
Bloomsbury 52
Book of Common Prayer 69, 82
Boas, George 90
Boston 2, 4, 15, 18, 24, 25, 27, 39, 40, 42, 43
Bradley, F. H. 4, 27
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 73, 78
Brooke, Rupert 77
Brooks, Cleanth 111
Browning, Robert 40
Bubu de Montparnasse 24
Buddha 67
“Burbank with a Baedeker” 30, 60
“Burnt Norton” 18, 19, 28, 92, 96–102, 105, 106
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 23, 48, 51
Canterbury, Archbishop of 91
Carlyle, Thomas 19
Carthage 78
Cats 107
Cavalcanti, Guido 82
cave paintings 35
Channing, William Ellery 28
Charles I, king of England 93
Charles II, king of England 19
Chaucer, Geoffrey 36, 76, 78
Chipping Camden 88
Church of England 13, 14, 17, 18, 26, 42, 60, 69, 79, 80, 88, 91, 111
Civil War, American 22
Civil War, English 19, 39, 93
classicism 32, 33, 36, 93, 94–95, 113
Clough, Authur Hugh 49
Cocktail Party, The 18, 89, 107
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 32
Collected Poems, 1909–1935 18
confessional mode 105–107
Confidential Clerk, The 18, 89, 107
conservatism 22, 29, 31, 63, 111, 114
“Conversation Galante” 41–42
“Cooking Egg, A” 59
Corbière, Tristan 3, 108, 109
Crashaw, Richard 83
Criterion, The 9–10, 11, 12, 29, 63, 91, 111
Cromwell, Oliver 39
cultural criticism 29
Dada 79
Daily Mail 9
Daniel, Arnaut 86
“Dans le Restaurant” 64
Dante Alighieri 23, 32, 33, 34, 51, 73–74, 82, 85, 86–87, 99, 104, 106, 108
Dawson, Christopher 92
Descartes, René 57, 70
Dial, The 11
Dickens, Charles 19
dissociation of sensibility 39
Donne, John 33, 51, 54, 55, 83, 108
Doolittle, Hilda (H.D.) 25, 32
drama 16, 88, 107
dramatic monologue 49–50, 51, 56, 80, 82, 96, 112
“Dry Salvages, The” 18, 92, 100, 103, 104, 106
Duncan, Ronald 89
Durkheim, Emile 28
East Coker 1, 2
“East Coker” 18, 92, 96, 98, 102, 103–104, 105, 106
Ecclesiastes, Book of 69
Edwards, Michael 53
Egoist, The 8
Egoist Press 7
Elder Statesman, The 18, 89, 107
Eliot, Ada 16
Eliot, Charlotte 9, 16, 23, 63
Eliot, George 19
Eliot, Marian 9
Eliot, T. S.
anti-Semitism 60, 107, 114–115
banker 7–8
book reviewer 6
conversion 13–14, 26–27, 78, 79, 80, 81
depression 8, 20–21, 62
family 2, 9
financial worries 6
life at Harvard 2–3
New England aristocracy 29
Nobel Prize 19, 116
Order of Merit 19
original sin 68
philosophy 37–39
prose style 7, 27
sage 7, 19, 116
speech 2, 40, 82
success of The Waste Land 78–79, 108, 109
teacher 6, 7
Valerie Fletcher, marriage to 18, 20
Vivien Haigh-Wood, marriage to 5–6, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 62, 79
ill-health of 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 63
Elizabethan England 23, 30, 67, 103
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 28
Enlightenment 27, 42, 68, 73, 102
Eschenbach, Wolfram van 65
Europe 3–4, 22, 39, 74, 113, 115
European Union 116
Ezekiel, Book of 69
Faber, Geoffrey 12
Faber and Faber 12, 18, 20, 92, 111
Faber and Gwyer 12
Family Reunion, The 18, 89
fascism 10, 19, 30, 63
Ferrar, Nicholas 19, 93
First World War 4, 8, 23, 25, 26, 63, 65, 66, 69, 71, 79, 107, 115
Fisher King 69, 78
Fitzgerald, Edward 23
Flaubert, Gustave 100
Fletcher, Valerie 18, 20
For Lancelot Andrewes 27, 30
Four Quartets 18, 19, 28, 51, 56, 81, 84, 86, 92–107, 115
Frazer, J. G. 28
Fry, Christopher 89
“Function of Criticism, The” 66
Gardner, Helen 111
Gauthier, Théophile 8
Gay, Peter 48
Geoffrey of Monmouth 65
George VI, king of England 19
“Gerontion” 8, 30, 56–59, 63, 67
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 93
“Goethe as the sage” 93
Gourmont, Remy de 25, 32
Grand Tour 3, 4
Grande Meaulnes, Le 4
Great Britain 2, 13, 14, 15, 22, 25, 30
Greene, Graham 84
Gunn, Thom 20
Gwyer, Richard 12
Haigh-Wood, Maurice 14, 15
Haigh-Wood, Vivien 5, 6, 17 see also Eliot, T. S
Hale, Emily 16–18
Hamlet 51
“Hamlet and his Problems” 34, 62
Harrison, Jane 28
Harvard University 2, 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 40, 43, 65, 77, 89, 95
“He Do the Police in Different Voices” 8, 10, 63
Hegelianism 28
Heidegger, Martin 38, 41
Heraclitus 28, 38, 96–97, 98
Herbert, George 83
Hesiod 51
“Hippopotamus, The” 60
history 35, 57, 102–105
Hitler, Adolf 18, 91
Hogarth Press 8, 12
“Hollow Men, The” 27, 55–56
Holocaust 91, 114
Holy Grail 64
Homer 35
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 59
Hughes, Ted 20
Hulme, T. E. 25, 32
Husserl, Edmund 28
Hutchison, Mary 68
“Hysteria” 86
Idea of a Christian Society, The 65, 88, 91, 92, 103
imagination 32
Incarnation 27, 31, 84, 85, 87, 97
International Journal of Ethics 7
Isherwood, Christopher 89
Italy 4
James, William 28
Joyce, James 7, 8, 10, 25, 32, 36, 63, 113
Joachim, Harold 4, 28
John the Baptist 51, 52
“Johnson as Poet and Critic” 93
“Journey of the Magi” 56, 80, 81–82
Julian of Norwich 105
Julius, Anthony 114
Keats, John 101
Kenner, Hugh 53, 113
Kipling, Rudyard 23, 30
Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley 40
Kristeva, Julia 51, 61
“La Figlia Che Piange” 45
Laforgue, Jules 3, 24, 41, 49, 50, 51, 85, 108
Langbaum, Robert 49
language 40–42, 53, 55, 56, 74–77, 78, 94–95, 97, 99–102, 113
American 23, 40
Indo-European 78
Sanskrit 78
Lanham, Charles 28
Larisch, Marie 69
Larkin, Philip 20
Lausanne 11, 26, 62, 79
Lazarus 51
Leavis, F. R. 33, 111
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien 28
Lewis, Wyndham 7, 8, 25, 26, 32, 36, 79
liberalism 35, 59, 66, 68, 73, 91, 103
“Little Gidding” 18, 19, 86, 92, 94, 95, 100, 102, 103, 104, 106
Litvinoff, Emmanuel 114
Liveright, Horace 11
Lloyds Bank 7, 9, 10, 12, 20
logos 97, 101
London 3, 4, 8, 11, 42, 63, 78, 109
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The” 5, 26, 44, 48–55, 57, 86, 107, 108
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Observations, The 7, 41, 43, 109
“Love Song of St. Sebastian, The” 24
Ludwig II, king of Bavaria 69
“Lune de Miel” 60
Mairet, Philip 92
Mallarmé, Stéphane 94, 98
Mannheim, Karl 92
Marburg University 4
Margate 10
“Marina” 80, 81
Marlowe, Christopher 33, 47
Marvell, Andrew 51
Mathiesson, F. O. 111
Maurras, Charles 31
Meinong, Alexis 28
“Mélange Adultére de Tout” 60
“Metaphysical Poets” 33
metoikos 9
Michelangelo 51
Miller, James E. 115
Milton Academy 2
Milton, John 33, 34, 108
“Miss Helen Slingsby” 42
“Mr. Appollinax” 43, 45
modernism 32, 36, 59, 108, 109, 111, 113
modernity 12, 35, 50, 54, 57, 68, 108, 110, 112
Monroe, Harriet 26
Montefeltro, Guido de 51
Moot circle 91–92
More, Paul Elmer 13
Morrell, Lady Ottoline 4, 11, 63
Morris, William 94
Müller, Max 28
Munich 3, 69
Munich Crisis 18, 91
Munro, Harold 5
Murder in the Cathedral 16, 18, 88–89, 107
Murry, Middleton 92
mysticism 15–16, 19, 23, 28, 38, 72, 81, 83, 84, 98, 99, 111
myth 10, 28, 43, 63, 65, 69, 73, 110
new criticism 36, 108
Newman, John Henry 79
New Statesman 7
New York 8
Niebuhr, Reinhold 92
Nietzsche, Friedrich 38
Nightingale, Florence 52
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture 19, 29, 30, 32, 91, 92, 103
Oakeshott, Walter 92
objective correlative 34, 62–63
occult 64
Oldham, J. H. 92
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 9, 107
Orwell, George 95
Oxford University 4, 5, 12, 13, 25, 79
Page-Barbour lectures 89, 90
Paris 3, 11, 15, 24–25, 28, 63
Parmenides 38
Peter, John 115
Philippe, Charles-Louis 24
Phoenicia 78
Plato 38
Poems 1920 8, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 64
Poetry (Chicago) 26
Poetry Bookshop 5
Polanyi, Michael 92
Polonius 51
“Portrait of a Lady” 25, 45, 46–48, 86
Pound, Ezra 5, 8, 11, 19, 21, 25, 32, 36, 59, 62, 64, 77, 113
“Preludes” 26
provincialism 2, 40
Puritans 14, 42
Quinn, John 11
racism 22, 30, 60, 90, 114
Reformation 39
Renaissance 33, 34, 54, 65, 73
Restoration England 42
“Rhapsody on a Windy Night” 26, 44
Richards, I. A. 111
Ridler, Anne 89
Rock, The 88
Roman Catholic Church 13
Romans, Epistle of Paul to the 100
Romanticism 31, 32, 34, 35, 46, 49, 76, 108, 113
Rothermere, Lady 9, 11, 12
Royce, Josiah 28
Ruskin, John 19
Russell, Bertrand 4, 5, 6, 7, 28, 43
Sacred Wood, The 7, 49, 62, 73
St. Augustine 67
St. John of the Cross 99
St. Louis 2, 10, 18, 22, 30, 39, 40
St. Michael's parish church 1, 21
Santayana, George 28
satire 76–77
Schiff, Sidney 9
Schleiermacher, Friedrich 28
Second World War 18, 19, 71, 91, 92, 114, 115
Shakespeare, William 33, 34, 35, 41, 72, 81, 82
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 54
Slater, Montagu 89
slavery 23
Smith Academy 2
Socrates 38
“Song for Simeon, A” 80
Sorbonne 3
Spencer, Herbert 28
Starnbergersee 69
Stead, William Force 13
Strachey, Lytton 52
Strauss, Leo 91
Stravinsky, Igor 10, 93
Surette, Leon 65
Sweeney Agonistes 16, 30, 88
“Sweeney Among the Nightingales” 61, 64
Swinburne, Algernon 108
symbolism 8, 24, 98
Symons, Arthur 3, 24
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 53, 108, 115
Thayer, Scofield 5, 11
Thirty-Nine Articles 82
Times Literary Supplement 6
tradition 15, 29, 30–31, 35–36, 73–74, 103, 108
“Tradition and the Individual Talent” 31–35, 73, 74, 103
Treaty of Paris 63
Tylor, E. B. 28
Upanishads 104
Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, The 15, 63, 89, 94, 95, 101, 102
via negativa 99
Virginia, University of 89
Vaughan, Henry 83
Verdenal, Jean 4
Vidler, Alec 92
Vienna 69
Vittoz, Roger 11, 26, 63, 79
Vorticism 25
Wagner, Richard 67, 69, 71
Waste Land, The 5, 8, 9, 10–12, 16, 26, 27, 30, 36, 43, 51, 52, 55, 59, 61, 62–79, 81, 84, 86, 93, 107, 108, 109, 110, 115
Waugh, Evelyn 79, 84
Weaver, Harriet Shaw 7
Westminster Abbey 21
Weston, Jessie L. 64–65, 69
“What is a Classic?” 93, 94
Whibley, Charles 12
Williams, William Carlos 113
Wilson, Woodrow 109
Woods, J. H. 28
Woolf, Leonard and Virginia 8, 12
World Council of Churches 91
Wordsworth, William 94
Wyndham, George 49
Yeats, W. B. 100, 101


