`Index`

Page numbers referring to letters are in bold.

Abbe, George, 318
Academy of American Poets, 490, 539, 543, 545, 547
Accent, 114, 173, 193
Ackerman, James S., 395, 596
Adams, Henry, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, 106
Adams, Joseph Quincy, Jr., 168, 182
Adams, Léonie, 231, 233
Æ (George Russell), Selected Poems, 25
Aeschylus, 176
Agee, James, 350
Agenda, 524
Aiken, Conrad, 96, 277, 278, 293, 298–299, 323, 353, 388, 431, 436, 437, 447, 451, 476, 480, 483, 502, 503, 505, 511, 514, 554, 567, 612, 616
Albright, William F., From the Stone Age to Christianity, 386
alcohol: alcohol use, 37, 47, 48, 55, 209, 242, 264, 269, 270, 276, 278, 289, 292, 299, 303, 347, 363, 393, 508, 510, 518, 528, 552, 560, 572, 585, 588, 607; sobriety, 267, 278, 552, 572, 579, 595, 597, 598, 601, 616, 621; treatment for alcoholism, 559, 560, 570, 579, 580–581, 582, 583–584, 585, 586. See also Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 591, 614, 616, 617, 618
Allen, Charles, “Ethnology,” 194
Allen, Joseph, Latin Grammar, 299
Allott, Kenneth, “Two Americans,” 59–60
Alvarez, Al, 379, 380, 415, 417, 418, 419, 447, 451, 454, 456, 463, 477, 479, 483, 484, 502, 503, 505, 529, 544, 553, 573, 588, 613
American Review, The, 193, 195, 455
American Scholar, The, 194, 380
Ames, Elizabeth, 255, 256, 259, 264–265, 265, 335, 411, 417, 560
Ames, Van Meter, 255, 256, 259, 264–265, 265, 335, 411, 417, 515, 560, 609
Amis, Kingsley, 399, 589
Amory, Cleveland, 375
Anders, H. R. D., Shakespeare’s Books, 176, 596
Andersen, Wayne, Gauguin’s Paradise Lost, 598
Anderson, Hedli, 268, 290, 292
Andrewes, Lancelot, 596
Angold, John Penrose, 190, 191, 199
Anton, Ferdinand, Ancient Mexican Art, 576
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 481, 517
Appleton, Sarah, 294, 312–313, 619
Aragon, Louis, 157, 159, 165
Arendt, Hannah, 250
Arno, Peter, 371
Arnold, Matthew, 540
Asher, Aaron, 430, 477
Astrachan, Sam, An End to Dying, 323
Atherton, Jane, 22, 23, 26, 39, 41
Atlantic Monthly, The, 262, 524, 571, 573
Auden, W. H., 27, 46, 52, 54, 62, 65, 75, 80, 106, 138, 150, 165, 208, 217, 279, 285, 312, 324, 346, 385, 419, 432, 448, 449, 450, 473, 474, 489, 505, 526, 569–570, 589, 613
Auerbach, Erich, 236, 386
Augustine, St., 103, 293, 313, 592
Austen, Jane, 246–247, 251, 314, 365, 454

B. H. Blackwell, 315, 369, 563, 596
Babel, Isaac, 365, 588
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 127
Bacon, Francis, 23
Baedeker, Karl, 105
Bailey, Benjamin, 263–264
Baker, Howard Wilson, 119, 131, 140
Baker, Oliver, In Shakespeare’s Warwickshire and the Unknown Years, 403
Bald, R. C., John Donne: A Life, 589
Baldwin, James, 459
Baldwin, Thomas Whitfield, 176, 563
Bales, Peter, The Art of Brachygraphie, 174, 178
Baraka, Amiri, 613
Bargebuhr, Frederick, 286
Barnard, Mary, 97, 109, 112, 121
Barrett, William, 197
Barrie, J. M., 44
Bartlett, Samuel, 11, 14, 15
Barton, Patrick, 48, 56, 72, 145, 606
Bartram, William, 164
Basham, Arthur Llewellyn, The Wonder That Was India, 590
Basler, Roy, 427, 609, 612
Bateson, Frederick Wise, The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 257
Baudelaire, Charles, 229, 236, 517
Baum, L. Frank, 350
BBC, 306, 379, 380, 381, 388, 417, 432, 439, 440, 441, 444, 445, 446, 451, 456, 472, 486, 487, 488, 544, 545, 547, 548
Beamish, Rae, 70
Beatty, Morgan, Your Nation’s Capital, 324
Beckett, Samuel, 604
Bede, 596
Beer, Alice Baldwin, 213, 214
Beer, Thomas, 213, 218, 221, 412, 413
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 127, 129, 132, 136, 137, 139, 321, 379, 386, 562, 567, 578, 589
Bell, Marvin, 599, 600
Bellow, Saul, 275, 280, 288, 291, 295, 303, 323, 325, 328, 333, 334, 346, 351, 352, 354, 360, 364, 381, 399, 404, 417, 418, 422, 424, 428, 430, 434, 435, 439, 440, 446, 459, 460, 467, 476, 481, 491, 495, 498, 509, 518, 521, 528, 543, 551, 558, 560, 571, 579, 586, 598, 604, 609, 616, 623; in The Dream Songs, 481, 496, 509–510, 551; editing The Noble Savage, 375, 381, 382, 400, 404, 419, 437, 525
Bendiner, Robert, 100
Benn, Gottfried, 509–510
Bennett, Jean, 37, 38, 41, 48, 50, 122, 123, 126, 136
Bentley, Gerald, 257, 274, 402
Benton, Walter, 170
Bentzon, Thérèse, 222
Berg, Stephen, Naked Poetry, 530
Berlind, Bruce, 215, 236, 382
Berlioz, Hector, 127
Berndt, Susan Galliher, 527
Berne, Eric, Games People Play, 603
Berry, John, 191
Berryman, Ann. See Levine, Ann
Berryman, Eileen. See Simpson, Eileen
Berryman, John
POETRY
“American Lights, Seen From Off Abroad,” 356, 357, 431; “Another New Year’s Eve,” 588; “The Animal Trainer” (1),” 148; “The Animal Trainer (2),” 148; “Apollo 8,” 555; “The Apparition,” 649n84; “The Cage,” 233; “At Chinese Checkers,” 96, 171, 337; “The Ball Poem,” 149, 202, 224; “Beethoven Triumphant,” 567; Berryman’s Sonnets, 204, 533, 534, 535, 538–539, 543, 547, 548, 549, 555–556, 564, 569, 573, 606, 607; “From The Black Book,” 233, 234; “Boston Common,” 141, 149, 150, 154, 165; “Canto Amor,” 173, 202, 205, 224, 225, 616; “The Captain’s Song,” 206; “Caravan,” 50, 53, 55; “Ceremony and Vision,” 54, 56, 64; “Che,” 588; “Conversation,” 70, 114, 165; “Crisis,” 587; “Cradle Song,” 145; “Death Ballad,” 569, 571, 573; Delusions, Etc., 584, 587, 595, 602, 605, 610, 611, 614, 619; “Desires of Men and Women,” 83, 114, 173; “The Disciple,” 71, 149, 202; The Dispossessed, 207, 209, 212, 219, 224, 226, 227, 232, 234, 237, 238, 244, 274, 309, 310, 548
The Dream Songs, 378, 471, 534, 549, 557, 586, 597, 607; “Author’s Note,” 537; composition, 322, 332, 349, 350, 352, 355–356, 358, 368, 374–375, 381, 388, 392, 402, 446, 448, 453, 456, 458, 459, 461, 475, 492, 506, 509, 519, 532, 535; dedications, 451, 454, 455, 462, 465, 482, 491, 495, 534, 537, 554; explanation, 366, 457, 513, 516, 527, 540, 551, 590–591; publication of parts, 372–373, 379, 381, 382, 404, 414, 418, 419, 424, 429, 432, 435, 436, 445, 447, 449, 450, 458, 464, 467, 463, 472, 479, 520, 525; reading, 440, 441, 442, 444, 460; sequencing, 431, 478, 482, 490, 511, 525, 536, 538, 542, 544, 546, 550–551; 77 Dream Songs, 404, 424, 434, 451, 456, 476, 486, 487, 488, 489, 491, 492, 496, 498, 501, 504, 505, 507, 514, 532, 543, 547, 555, 587; translations, 474, 477, 501, 530, 532, 533, 543; DS 1, 492, 591–592; DS 2, 419, 467, 487; DS 3, 437; DS 4, 434, 467; DS 5, 366, 467, 490; DS 6, 437; DS 7, 432; DS 8, 429, 467; DS 9, 437; DS 11, 484; DS 12, 381; DS 13, 418, 437; DS 14, 434; DS 15, 467, 468, 481, 509; DS 16, 432, 502; DS 17, 381; DS 18, 487, 488; DS 20, 418, 429, 435; DS 21, 479; DS 22, 437; DS 23, 351, 431, 443, 464, 486, 487, 490, 496; DS 24, 367; DS 25, 490; DS 27, 432; DS 28, 479; DS 29, 381; DS 31, 479; DS 34, 437; DS 35, 440; DS 36, 432, 439; DS 37–39, 448, 449, 474; DS 40, 474; DS 44, 479; DS 45, 479; DS 46, 381; DS 47, 595; DS 48, 456, 479; DS 49, 417; DS 50, 479; DS 51, 434; DS 52, 432; DS 53, 381, 509, 595; DS 54, 381; DS 55, 452; DS 56, 456, 479; DS 57, 484; DS 58, 437, 454; DS 59, 490; DS 64, 437; DS 66, 482; DS 68, 437, 467, 468; DS 69, 437, 595; DS 70, 462; DS 71, 432, 490; DS 73, 490, 496; DS 74, 437, 490; DS 75, 492; DS 76, 356; DS 77, 595; DS 78, 536; DS 79, 536; DS 80, 503; DS 80–83, 541, 546; DS 84, 540, 595; DS 84–90, 536; DS 90, 531, 595; DS 92, 510; DS 93, 504, 507, 508, 510; DS 94, 510; DS 95, 520; DS 96, 510; DS 97, 507, 520; DS 98, 437; DS 105, 437; DS 117, 8; DS 126, 551; DS 146–159, 534; DS 154, 551; DS 155, 551; DS 172, 540; DS 173, 572; DS 183, 417; DS 210, 572; DS 216, 419, 429; DS 217, 484; DS 225, 497; DS 234, 467, 526; DS 266, 568; DS 286, 315, 537, 554; DS 287, 425; DS 295, 539; DS 296, 94, 113, 304, 316, 318; DS 315, 537, 554; DS 316, 537; DS 371, 544, 545; DS 382, 551; DS 385, 467, 526, 547, 621; uncollected DS (“Baby Teddy”), 442, 486, 490; uncollected DS (“Statesmanlike”) 437; uncollected DS (“The jolly old man is a silly old dumb”), 392, 492
“Ecce Homo,” 586, 589, 594; “Elegy: Hart Crane,” 27; “Elegy for Alun Lewis,” 358; “Eleven Addresses to the Lord,” 617; “The Enemies of the Angels,” 224; “The Form,” 586; “Formal Elegy,” 500, 548; “Heaven,” 568, 587; “The Hell Poem,” 571; “Henry by Night,” 568; “Henry’s Understanding,” 568; “Her & It,” 568, 616; “The Heroes,” 568; His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt, 356, 357–358, 359, 360, 364, 365, 368, 373, 548; His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, 505, 511, 520, 524, 528, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 539, 550, 554, 555, 564, 587; “Homage to Film,” 83
“Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,” 265, 273–274, 277, 285, 290, 306, 328, 350, 352, 354, 379, 396, 407, 416, 424, 451, 522, 605, 607, 620; anthologized, 324, 346, 388, 417, 418, 483; composition, 254, 256, 257, 260, 261, 262, 264, 265, 266, 268, 434, 516, 606; dedication, 294, 298, 313; publication, 269, 272, 276, 297, 300, 301, 304, 305–306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 312, 324, 352, 432, 450, 452, 502, 503; responses, 277, 278, 292, 298, 349, 447, 451, 455, 472, 486, 505–506, 514, 590, 597, 616; translations, 407, 502, 531, 552, 598; Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, 325, 503; Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems, 357, 359, 361, 368, 373, 388
“How Do You Do, Dr Berryman, Sir?,” 601; “Idyl II,” 525; “In & Out,” 587; “Innocent,” 665n468; “King David Dances,” 594, 601; “Letter to His Brother,” 54, 55, 58, 72; “The Lightning,” 209; Love & Fame, 565, 566, 568, 569, 570, 571, 573, 574, 586, 587, 595, 597, 599, 616; “Meditation,” 49, 64, 70, 83; “Meeting,” 568; “Message,” 571; “Mr. Pou & the Alphabet,” 409, 410; “The Moon and the Night and the Men,” 114, 165, 202, 224; “Mpls, Mother,” 576; “The Mysteries,” 370; “Narcissus Moving,” 224; “The Nervous Songs,” 206; “Night and the City,” 48, 49; “Not to Live,” 357; “Note for a Historian,” 52; “Note to Wang Wei,” 357; “Of Isaac Rosenfeld,” 357; “Of Suicide,” 571; “Old Man Goes South Again Alone,” 601; “Olympus,” 571, 573; “On the London Train,” 54; “Opus Dei,” 588, 592, 593, 605, 611, 617, 619, 622; “Orpheus,” 357; “The Other Cambridge,” 568; “The Other Chicago,” 459, 460, 468, 483, 485; “The Pacifist’s Song,” 206; “Parting as Descent,” 171, 173, 202; Poems (1942), 126, 129, 131, 139, 140, 143, 149, 205; Poems 1939–1940. See Poems (1942); “A Point of Age,” 96, 99, 143, 171; “The Possessed,” 53; “A Prayer for the Self,” 577; “A Professor’s Song,” 206; “Regents’ Professor Berryman’s Crack on Race,” 575; “Rembrandt van Rijn obit 8 October 1669,” 559; “The Return,” 52, 53; “Rock-Study with Wanderer,” 165, 224; “Sanctuary,” 54; “Scholars at the Orchid Pavilion,” 273, 397, 416, 424, 471; “Scots Poem,” 357; “The Search,” 572; Selected Poems, 1938–1968, 574, 587, 593, 595, 616, 620, 622; Short Poems, 1099; “Song from Cleopatra,” 49, 83; “The Song of the Bridegroom,” 206; “The Song of the Demented Priest,” 202, 205, 224; “Song of the Man Forsaken and Obsessed,” 206; “The Song of the Tortured Girl,” 206, 593; “The Song of the Young Hawaiian,” 206; “Sonnet 25,” 254, 256, 357; “The Spinning Heart,” 114; “The Statue,” 149, 171, 173, 202, 224; “A Sympathy, A Welcome,” 333, 357, 362, 370; “Tea,” 568; “They Have,” 606; “Toward Statement,” 50; “The Translation” (“Toward Myth”), 49, 50, 53; “The Trial,” 58, 59, 60, 61; Trips to the Interior. See Delusions, Etc. “Venice, 182–,” 357; “Washington in Love,” 561, 564; “Whether There Is Sorrow in the Demons,” 273; “The White Feather,” 139; “The Wholly Fail,” 665n468; “Winter Landscape,” 70, 71, 106, 114, 149, 171, 173, 202, 224; “World-Telegram,” 223, 224; “Young Woman’s Song,” 173, 202; “Your Birthday in Wisconsin You Are 140,” 585
UNPUBLISHED POETRY
“Another New Year’s Eve,” 588; “A’s B [Brooding rather on birthdays],” 322; “Before I obliterate,” 110–112; The Black Book, 234, 273, 296, 357; “Busy in that time & room of pain, can you speak?,” 109–110; “The Councillors,” 70; The Children, 614, 620; “Difficulty & Mystery of Berlin,” 171; “Henry pickt up in Calcutta something or other,” 348; “Henry’s Pencils,” 507, 508; “It’s June in the Wm Cullen Bryant house,” 428–429; “The juggler is a special man—,” 407–408; “Old friend, he swore, I have sent you one,” 537; “On being asked to autograph a book, & refusing,” 157–158; “The Pleasures of Mukerji,” 376–377; “Reply to a Friend,” 49; “Ritual at Arlington,” 33, 34, 45, 67; “A Roofer, to Boydism,” 326; “To a Friend,” 39; “The Song of the Account Executive,” 371, 372; “Survivor,” 52, 56, 64; “Testament from In Here” (“Letter from a Singing man to Saul & Peretz”), 281, 285–286; Thou Art the Man, 588, 599; “Timothy in Ruins,” 70; “Three blue rooms, & one brown,” 374–375; “Twenty-five years to honour one,” 169; “Two Replies on Fame,” 49; “Vigil in the Lakes,” 70; “Wakes me wet, fear,” 310; “Whinger Dinger Diff’s Come-uppance,” 415, 416
PLAYS
The Architect (unfinished), 36, 58; Cleopatra: A Meditation; Mirabeau (unfinished), 273, 572; A Tree, a Tree (unfinished), 323, 325
PROSE
The Arts of Reading, 356, 361, 362, 363, 365, 369, 373, 380, 385, 395; “Auden’s Prose,” 448; Commentary on “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 365, 368, 369; “A Critical Supplement to Poetry,” 233, 234; “Despondency and Madness.” See “Skunk Hour”; “The Development of Anne Frank,” 610; “Epics from Outer Space,” 473; The Freedom of the Poet, 451, 477, 562, 564, 587; “The Freedom of the Don,” 610; “From the Middle to the Senior Generations,” 375; “The Long Way to MacDiarmid,” 293, 316, 318; “The Loud Hill of Wales,” 101; “Lowell, Thomas, &c.,” 423; “Marlowe’s Damnations,” 260; “Neither Here nor There,” 504; “Notes on Poetry: E. A. Robinson and Others,” 25; “One Answer to a Question,” 502; “On Poetry and the Age,” 531; “A Philosophical Poet,” 58; “The Poetry of Ezra Pound,” 221, 222, 224, 225–226, 232; “Randall Jarrell,” 531; Recovery, 597, 599, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 608, 609, 610, 613, 614–615, 617, 619, 623; “The Ritual of W. B. Yeats,” 46; “Satire and Poetry,” 27; “A Scholarly History,” 187; “Shakespeare at Thirty,” 244, 250–251, 302, 403, 468; “Skunk Hour,” 413–414, 415, 425, 456, 478; “Spender: The Poet as Critic,” 448, 475; Statement for “Comments by the Poets,” 165; Stephen Crane: A Critical Biography, 204, 211, 213–214, 217, 218, 220, 221, 223, 227, 234, 237–238, 239–240, 252, 309, 369, 385, 410, 413, 426, 427, 469, 476, 588, 603, 607; reception, 232, 244–245; revision, 369, 413, 426; “Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage,” 483, 497; “Thomas Nashe and ‘The Unfortunate Traveller,’ ” 382, 391; “Through Dreiser’s Imagination the Tides of Real Life Billowed,” 241; “Types of Pedantry,” 23; “Waiting for the End, Boys,” 209
SHORT STORIES
“The Imaginary Jew,” 172, 225, 245, 279, 472; “The Lovers,” 166, 270; “Thursday Out,” 346, 355, 472
TRANSLATIONS
“Job” (unfinished), 329–330; “The Way of the Cross,” 273
UNFINISHED CRITICAL PROJECTS
The Blue Book of Poetry, 571–572, 574, 587; Brooders, 603; “The Care and Feeding of Long Poems,” 476; King Lear, 161–162, 163, 167–168, 174–175, 178–179, 182, 184–185, 204, 225, 235, 273, 280, 564; “The Historical Personality of Christ,” 610; The Life of Jesus Christ, 602–603; “The Old Criticism,” 194; Oxford Book of Sonnets, 208; review of Bishop, Questions of Travel, 541, 546; Sacrifice, 607, 610, 614; Shakespeare biography, 243–244, 245, 250, 253, 263, 272, 273, 274, 296–297, 298, 300, 301, 302, 305, 309, 332, 356, 369, 378, 380, 403, 432, 451, 468–469, 477, 490, 560, 561, 593, 594, 603, 607, 609, 611, 614; Shakespeare Handbook, 356, 361, 369; Shakespeare’s Friend, 272, 402–403, 451, 490, 497; “The SST and Renunciation,” 594, 610; study of William Haughton, 378, 403. See also Shakespeare’s Friend; Yeats memorial volume, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 70
Berryman, John Angus McAlpin, 11, 13, 16, 22, 37
Berryman, Kathleen. See Donahue, Kathleen
Berryman, Martha (JB’s mother), 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 19, 31, 37, 41, 48, 86, 126, 128, 129, 133, 136, 137, 141, 225, 270, 271–272, 273, 274, 275, 295, 339, 340, 343, 347, 360, 378, 383, 451, 476, 485–486, 509, 510, 577, 581, 593, 598, 601, 605, 614, 620, 622
Berrryman, Martha (Martha Mayou), 444, 446, 449, 450, 451, 458, 461, 462, 465, 466, 467, 484, 489, 493, 494, 513, 517, 522, 534, 536, 574, 583, 591, 593, 594, 595, 597, 603, 604, 605, 606, 614, 618, 620, 622
Berryman, Paul, 329, 331, 375, 383, 390, 392–393, 393, 394, 396, 398, 405, 407, 414, 428, 436, 448, 469, 490, 492, 493, 499, 503, 514, 532, 545, 578, 581, 582, 591, 592, 618, 621, 623; education of, 410, 591, 604, 620, 922; poems to, 394, 407, 409, 415–416
Berryman, Robert Jefferson, 12, 16–17, 20, 22, 37, 39, 54, 56, 79, 109, 121, 125, 126, 133, 272, 275, 343, 347, 378, 490, 509, 575, 584, 597, 601, 606
Berryman, Sarah Rebecca, 591, 592, 595, 599, 604, 611, 613, 614, 619, 623
Best, Marshall, 296, 451, 452
Betjeman, John, “Adventures in Poetry,” 379
Bettman, Elisabeth, 264, 278
Bhagavad Gita, 334
The Bible, 198, 367, 370, 385, 562; Chronicles, 591; Exodus, 571; Galatians, 517; Job, 198, 315, 329–330; John, 609; Lamentations, 562; Luke, 562, 589; Mark, 457, 554; New Testament, 176, 302, 315, 321, 349, 387, 563; Numbers, 195; Old Testament, 365, 612; Psalms, 609, 615; 2 Samuel, 588, 599; Zechariah, 262
Birnbaum, Marie, 498
Bishop, Elizabeth, 85, 90, 203, 233, 354, 357, 510, 536, 541, 546, 558, 559, 565, 573, 598, 622
Bishop, John Peale, 52, 54, 55, 62, 74, 75, 76, 77
Blackmur, Helen Dickson, 33, 185–186, 217, 350, 614
Blackmur, R. P., 28, 29, 31, 36, 46, 49, 52, 94, 112, 154, 156, 157, 158, 173, 185–186, 189, 194, 195–196, 211, 216, 219, 221, 231–232, 249, 250, 270, 290, 301, 305, 306, 308, 323, 349, 427, 439, 572, 574, 613, 614
Blake, Peter, Frank Lloyd Wright, 590
Blake, William, 33, 35, 43, 420
Bloom, Allan, 395
Bloom, Edward, 420
Bly, Robert, 360, 505, 613
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 25
Bogan, Louise, 543, 613
Boker, George Henry, 208
Bollingen Foundation, 468
Bonnard, Pierre, 195
Borah, Woodrow, 384, 389, 414
Bosquet, Alain, 365
Botticelli, Sandro, 386
Boudaille, Georges, Gustave Courbet, 598, 603
Bowles, William Lisle, 208
Bowra, Cecil, Primitive Song, 590
Boydell, Brian, 145, 527
Bradley, A. C., 46, 607
Brandeis University, 389–400
Braque, Georges, 267, 612
Brathwait, Richard, Drunken Barnaby’s Four Journeys, 267
Bread Loaf School of English, 407, 408–409, 410, 426–427, 428, 430, 436, 450, 456, 533, 559
Brecht, Bertolt, 307
Brenan, Gerald, A Life of One’s Own, 466, 471
Brenner, Patricia Ann, John Berryman’s Dream Songs, 569
Bridenbaugh, Carl, 62
Bridges, Robert, 138, 152, 203, 208, 452, 456, 519
Bridson, D. G., 456, 487
Bright, Timothy, Characterie, 174, 178
Brinnin, John Malcolm, 127, 147, 276, 327, 338, 465, 522
Broad, Charlie D., 387
Broch, Hermann, 243, 254
Brogan, D. W., 387, 554
Brontë, Charlotte, 230
Brooke, Rupert, 139
Brooke, Tucker, The Shakespeare Apocrypha, 300
Brooks, Cleanth, Jr., 48, 50, 56, 62, 83, 85, 116, 371
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 459
Brooks, Van Wyck, 241, 387, 598
Brown, Francis, 361, 473, 504
Brown, John Russell, Early Shakespeare, 563
Brown, Norman, Life Against Death, 554
Brown, Peter, Augustine of Hippo, 590
Browne, Garech, 595
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 525
Browning, Robert, 188, 563
Brown University, 420–421, 428, 432, 434, 435, 437, 438, 440, 455, 458, 459, 461, 466
Buber, Martin, 386
Buchanan, Scott, 51, 53, 65, 78
Buckman, Gertrude, 78, 85, 96, 129, 210, 304, 308, 523
Budd, F. E., 175
Bukharin, Nikolai, 136
Burke, Kenneth, 456
Burns, Robert, 294
Butler, Nicholas Murray, 28

Cabell, James Branch, 23, 214
Cadoux, Cecil John, The Life of Jesus, 563
Cairns, Huntington, 228
Cambridge University, 29, 34, 39, 42, 45, 48, 50, 51, 63, 64, 72, 96, 98, 149, 163, 186, 205, 244, 245, 269–270, 286, 397, 400, 568
Cameron, Elizabeth, 255, 303, 333, 411
Cameron, James Alister, 255, 256, 287, 303, 333, 411, 434, 471
Campbell, Alexander, The Heart of India, 359
Campbell, Florence Johnston, 72, 79, 116, 118, 120, 147, 150, 151, 337
Campbell, Robert Bhain, 54, 71, 72, 79, 84, 86, 87, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 113, 115, 116–117, 117, 118, 119, 120, 147–148, 150, 151, 173, 202–203, 337–338, 449, 524, 573, 586
Campbell, Roy, 202
Campion, Thomas, 408
Camus, Albert, 194, 250
Canada, 31; Montreal, 30, 32, 533, 574; Quebec, 30; Williamsburg, Ontario, 30
Capell, Edward, Notes and Various Readings, 176
Carlill, H. F., “The Call to a New Britain,” 194
Carrington, Philip, The Primitive Christian Calendar, 368, 457
Carruth, Hayden, 233, 234, 485, 579, 585, 588
Carver, Catharine, 253, 293, 299, 301, 416, 417, 431, 450, 452, 518, 519, 547, 595
Casement, Roger, 440, 545
Cecil, Robert, First Earl of Salisbury, 563
Cecil, William, First Baron Burghley, 563
Cervantes, Miguel de, 302, 305, 346, 578, 605, 610, 614
Chadwick, Henry, The Early Church, 596
Chambers, E. K., 164, 183, 300, 309, 403, 596
Chapin, John, The Book of Catholic Quotations, 324
Chaplin, Charles, 328
Chapman, George, 257, 302
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon, 289
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 25, 33, 175, 188, 395
Cheever, John, 373
Chekhov, Anton, 117, 365, 369, 583
Chiaromonte, Nicola, 255
Chicago Daily News, 483, 485
Christenson, Mary Jane, 106, 116, 118, 120, 121
Churchill, Sir Winston, 210
Ciardi, John, 283, 331, 332, 417
Cienfuegos, Vivian, 504
Clare, John, 208
Clark, Anthony Morris, 358
Clark, John W., 362, 365, 425, 462
Claudel, Paul, 273, 319
Clemens, Cyril, 241
Clemons, Walter, 265, 421, 422, 423
Cloud of Unknowing, The, 596
Cocteau, Jean, 359
Codman, Florence, 82–83
Coffey, Warren, “Wyndham Lewis: Enemy of the Rose,” 463
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 25, 60, 75, 208, 300, 319, 608
Collieson, Frank, 576, 589
Collingwood, R. G., The Principles of Art, 303
Columbia Review, 27, 28
Columbia University, 28–29, 141, 239, 290, 336, 387, 490, 501, 525, 530, 547, 559, 569; JB plans to teach at, 62, 64, 66, 78, 79, 82, 93, 99, 153, 337; JB studying at, 22–24, 25–27, 598
Commentary, 437, 471
Committee on International Exchange of Persons, 244
Commonweal, 310
Cone, Edward Toner, 271, 349, 418
Connolly, James, 545
Conrad, Alfred, 558, 560, 577–578
Conrad, Joseph, 301, 408, 587, 606
Cook, Reginald, 408, 426
Cooke, John, 257
Cookson, William, 524
Cooper, Jane, 277
Cooper, Russell M., 320, 359, 360
Corbière, Tristan, 192, 198, 200, 207, 517
Corday, Charlotte, 605
Corvo, Baron (Frederick Rolfe), 285, 440
Cott, Jonathan, “Theodore Roethke and John Berryman,” 501–502
Coughlin, Charles Edward, 87
Coulette, Henri, 504
Courbet, Gustave, 598, 603
Cousins, Norman, 228–229
Cowley, Abraham, 43
Cowley, Malcolm, 53, 56, 103, 112, 223, 249, 251, 323
Cowper, William, 208
Cozzens, James Gould, 354
Crane, Hart, 27, 31, 32, 35, 103, 136, 202, 387, 464, 483, 616
Crane, Stephen, 169, 171, 190, 215, 218, 223, 249, 272, 323, 334, 365, 369, 380, 381, 385, 420, 478, 497, 555, 590
Crawford, Bryce, L., 402
Creeley, Robert, 587, 613
Criterion, The, 61, 189, 193, 194, 195, 196
Crook, Arthur, 437, 445, 487, 567, 616, 617
Crump, M. Marjorie, The Growth of the Aeneid, 426
Cullman, Oscar, Peter: Disciple, Apostle, Martyr, 313, 321, 386
cummings, e. e., 32, 165, 208, 211, 290, 293–294, 327
Cunliffe, Marcus, George Washington, 370
Cunningham, J. V., 505
Curie, Ève, Madame Curie, 571
Currey, Ralph Nixon, 170, 191, 195
“The Cutty Wren,” 198
Cuyler, Richard M., 18, 20

Dahlberg, Edward, “A Long Lotus Sleep,” 293
Dalberg-Acton, John (Baron Acton), 313, 314
Damon, Samuel Foster, “The Odyssey in Dublin,” 25, 420
Daniel, Samuel, 208
Dante Alighieri, 23, 32, 42, 164, 176, 177, 241, 277, 289, 290, 291, 293, 300, 302, 321, 477, 534
Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 130–131
Davidson, Donald (poet), 58, 62
Davidson, John, 188, 197, 435
Davies, Arthur Powell, The First Christian, 562
Davies, Sir John, 210
Davis, Robert Gorham, “In the Realms of Gold,” 198
Davis, Stuart A., “John Berryman,” 536
Day, Stacey B., 614
Debussy, Claude, 127
Defoe, Daniel, 382
Dekker, Thomas, 300
de la Mare, Walter, 350
Delius, Frederick, 127
Derwood, Gene, 173, 622
Deutsch, Babette, 105, 406
Devlin, Christopher, The Life of Robert Southwell, 323
Devlin, Denis, 527, 529
Dewey, John, 255, 257, 515
Dial, The, 34, 46, 195
di Capua, Michael, 531, 539
Dickens, Charles, 576
Dickey, James, 337, 355, 358, 447, 449, 508, 573, 585, 586
Dickinson, Emily, 33, 34, 368, 565
Dindorf, Karl Wilhelm, 176
Dinsmore, Charles Allen, The Teachings of Dante, 24
Donahue, Kathleen (“Kate”), 409, 417, 423, 431, 433, 439, 440, 444, 446, 457, 462, 467, 468, 471, 476, 487, 503, 508, 509, 510, 513, 520, 522, 524, 530, 535, 537, 538, 547, 555, 557, 582, 586, 588, 592, 593, 594, 595, 597, 599, 605, 614, 615, 617, 620, 622; JB’s work, 424, 461, 483, 484, 491, 495, 540, 604; marriage to JB, 404, 405, 410, 412; as teacher, 572, 577, 583, 591, 604
Donga, Pierre, 34, 36, 38
Donne, John, 25, 33, 34–35, 41, 42, 43, 47, 121, 142, 208, 217
Doráti, Antal, The Way of the Cross, 319, 351
Doughty, Charles Montagu, Travels in Arabia Deserta, 164
Doughty, LeGarde S., 89
Douglas, Jack D., Social Meanings of Suicide, 589
Drake, St. Clair, Black Metropolis, 459
Drayton, Michael, 208
dreams, JB’s, 314–325, 397, 405, 530–531. See also psychoanalysis
Dreiser, Theodore, 241, 334, 604
Drew, Elizabeth A., 408, 441
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden, 208
Dryden, John, 34, 43, 195, 438
du Bellay, Joachim, 197
Duhamel, Georges, “Vues sur Rimbaud,” 194
Durkheim, Émile, Suicide, 589
Duthie, George Ian, 174, 179, 182, 235
“Dying Airman, The” (anonymous), 165, 170, 385

Eberhart, Richard, 65, 332, 357
Eberl, Galen, 494
Ebisch, Walther, A Shakespeare Bibliography, 300
Edel, Leon, 218
Edman, Irwin, 22, 607
Eeman, Beryl, 51, 54, 56, 57, 68, 79, 100, 108, 113, 119, 124, 128, 135, 141, 142, 231, 537, 595
Einstein, Albert, 422
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 258, 270, 351, 486
Eisenstein, Sergei, 46
Eliade, Mircea, Patterns in Comparative Religion, 530
Eliason, Shirley, 289, 301, 306
Eliot, George, 194, 247, 513
Eliot, T. S., 46, 54, 60, 61, 85, 106, 186, 188, 189, 193, 194, 196, 203, 211, 219–220, 223, 241, 257, 296, 321, 342, 385, 386, 408, 426, 427, 435, 463, 464, 498, 527; as publisher, 227, 237, 304, 306, 310
Elliott, George P., A Piece of Lettuce, 504
Ellison, Ralph, 403, 459, 471, 495, 508
Empson, William, 456, 505, 576, 601
Encounter, 418, 429, 432, 434, 436, 437, 446, 455, 501, 541, 573, 581
Encyclopædia Britannica, 11, 135, 321, 386, 396
Engel, Monroe, 441, 446, 454
England: Cambridge, 37, 41, 46, 51, 53, 69; contemplated trip, 95, 99, 100, 103; London, 32, 36, 37, 42, 43, 46, 48, 268, 269–270, 290, 543, 547, 549, 613
Engle, Paul, 47, 272, 274, 281, 288, 291, 305, 324
Epic of Gilgamesh, The, 596
Epstein, Edmund, 382
Erikson, Erik, 592, 605, 609
Erskine, Albert (editor), 84, 126, 131, 385
Esquire, 459, 476
Evans, Arthur and Catherine, “Pieter Bruegel and John Berryman,” 434
Evans, Luther, 228

Faber and Faber, 65, 186, 227, 424, 440, 505, 506, 564, 607; 77 Dream Songs, 378, 404, 434, 451, 462, 488, 502, 505, 506, 525; Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, 304, 306, 308, 310, 313, 352; Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems, 356, 357, 359, 361, 365, 368, 373, 388, 452; Selected Poems, 574, 593, 616, 620, 622
Farrar, John C., 567
Farrar, Straus and Company. See Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. See Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 296, 332, 350, 354–355, 357, 369, 373, 403, 417, 440, 450–452, 455, 469, 496, 498, 511, 543, 547, 557, 558, 586, 602–603, 607; The Dream Songs, 424, 434, 440, 451, 462, 478, 488, 491, 497, 543; Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, 300, 301, 304, 305, 313, 355, 388, 407, 432, 450
Fattorusso, Joseph, Kings and Queens of England and of France, 315
Faulkner, William, 73, 75, 251, 294, 327, 334, 374, 417, 432, 439, 454, 604
Feifel, Herman, The Meaning of Death, 614
Fenichel, Otto, 191
Fernandez, Ramon, “De la critique philosophique,” 34
Fiedler, Leslie A., 385, 435, 552
finances, 13, 153, 241, 271–274, 281, 299–300, 303, 344, 423, 436, 462, 472–473, 478, 493, 535, 592–593, 618, 622; academic institutions, 79, 113, 135, 142, 146, 154–155, 248, 252, 362, 420, 465, 492–493, 495, 496, 522, 558, 559, 562, 574, 610; bequests, 378–379; book publishers, 97, 100, 103, 112, 124, 166, 173, 202, 205, 207, 208, 221, 226, 268, 296, 297–298, 324, 357, 369, 388, 432, 451, 472, 478, 480, 497, 525, 531, 549, 553, 558, 562, 602, 604, 610, 614; and family, 16–17, 18, 37–38, 79, 271, 383, 384, 397–398, 401, 405, 407, 409, 493, 494, 501, 522–523, 584, 601, 605, 614, 622; fellowships and prizes, 95, 161, 276, 333, 389, 435, 445, 451, 460, 462, 463, 483, 485, 499, 540, 543, 545, 552; and friends, 209, 210, 278–279, 280, 285, 297, 301, 355, 623; housing, 144–145, 465, 496; medical expenses, 409, 462, 464, 510; periodicals, 58, 143, 195–196, 233, 234, 240, 243, 250, 332, 475, 487; taxes, 398, 472–473, 478, 508
Fitts, Dudley, 505, 507, 512, 514, 516
FitzGerald, Edward, 125, 188
Fitzgerald, Robert, 211, 212, 248, 262, 266, 267, 269, 270, 272, 275, 278, 284, 299, 323, 331, 344, 404, 423, 429, 447, 451, 456, 458, 461, 465, 466, 488, 506, 511, 512, 513, 516, 517, 520, 526, 574, 577, 620, 622; “Notes on American Poetry after 1945,” 455, 486, 502, 503
Fitzgerald, Sarah, 267, 270, 275, 279, 331, 344, 423, 512, 514, 620
Fitzgibbon, Constantine, The Life of Dylan Thomas, 563
Flaubert, Gustave, 613
Fletcher, John, 257
Flexner, Abraham, 153
Florio, John, The Essayes (Montaigne), 176
Ford, Ford Madox, 190, 203
Ford, Henry, 195
form, poetic: JB’s work, 54, 57, 263, 330, 356, 358, 424, 485, 516, 530, 556, 565, 568; other writers, 31–33, 55, 58, 72, 80, 84, 92–93, 94, 138, 172, 216, 266, 285, 453, 557
Forster, E. M., 427
Fox, Robin, The Law and the Prophets, 612
France, Paris, 36, 37, 38, 41, 42, 43, 45, 267, 268, 269, 339, 489, 583
Franck, César, 139
Frank, Anne, 279, 385, 420, 534, 556, 610
Frankenberg, Lloyd, 327
Fraser, Gordon, 36, 109, 145
Fredericks, Claude, 198, 200, 207, 356, 357, 364, 366, 370, 372, 373, 453, 548
French, R. M., The Way of a Pilgrim, 563
Freud, Sigmund, 295, 300, 315, 329, 386, 387, 459, 554
Friar, Kimon, 205, 338
Frobenius, Leo, 348
Frost, Robert, 32–33, 89, 165, 208, 225, 334, 353, 387, 405, 410, 432, 435, 436, 439, 448, 449, 451, 454, 455, 559, 563, 570; death, 488, 613; Dream Songs about, 448, 449, 450, 474

Gaddis, William, 294
Gandhi, Mohandas, 208, 210
Gardner, Helen, The Art of T. S. Eliot, 427
Gardner, Isabella, 436, 471, 474, 476
Gardner, John W., 594
Garland, Hamlin, 221–222
Garrett, John, The Poet’s Tongue, 589
Garrigue, Jean, 253
Gascoigne, George, 208
Gascoyne, David, 253
Gauguin, Paul, 289, 598
Gauss, Christian, 157, 181, 315
Gay, Karl, 551
Gayda, Virginio, 106
Geffen, Felicia, 507, 508
Gelpi, Albert, 530, 536, 567
Gerard, John, The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest, 309
Ghiselin, Brewster, 234, 373
Gibbon, Edward, 216
Gibbs, Barbara, Poems Written in Berlin, 357, 371
Gibson, William (poet), 208
Gide, André, 192, 295
Gilkes, Lillian, Stephen Crane: Letters, 412
Ginsberg, Allen, 588, 613
Giroux, Robert, 27, 102, 129, 138, 271, 276, 296, 297, 309, 317, 322, 324, 326, 332, 354, 432, 450, 466, 469, 471, 476, 482, 485, 487, 490, 496, 501, 504, 505, 506, 507, 509, 510, 511, 515, 523, 531, 533, 537, 538, 543–544, 547, 548, 550, 553, 554, 566, 569, 571, 575, 580, 586, 602, 603, 604, 609, 614, 622; at Harcourt, Brace & Co., 99, 100, 109, 272, 274, 296; JB’s publisher, 388, 404, 452, 469, 478, 488, 489, 496, 497, 498, 513, 535, 557, 564, 566, 586, 593, 594, 599, 601, 605, 607, 610, 617. See also Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Gittings, Robert, 452
Glassman, Susan, 434, 446, 460, 467, 468, 481, 492, 496, 509
Glikes, Erwin A., Of Poetry and Power, 548
Goddard College (Plainfield, Vermont) poetry symposium, 595, 599, 609, 612, 617
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 149, 426, 563
Gogol, Nikolai, 588
Goguel, Maurice, The Life of Jesus, 315
Golding, Arthur, 188, 211
Gollancz, 304, 305, 306, 308, 310, 313
Goodman, Ezra, 91
Goodman, Paul, 251
Gordon, Caroline, 53, 62, 68, 83, 88, 184, 385
Goya, Francisco de, 195, 321, 386, 612
Graham, W. S., 252–253
Grass, Günter, 504
Graves, Robert, 251, 306, 562
Gray, Thomas, 208
Greece, 550, 552; Athens, 345, 549, 550, 554
Greenberg, Clement, 260
Greenberg, Samuel, 198, 202
Greene, Graham, 309, 315
Greene, Robert, 300, 302
Greenough, James, Latin Grammar, 299
Greg, W. W., 163, 164, 167, 168, 174, 178–179, 182, 183, 184–185, 235, 248, 266, 564
Gregory, Horace, 138, 170
Grierson, H. J. C., 43, 46
Grigson, Geoffrey, 171, 612
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, “The Fisherman and His Wife,” 171
Groddeck, Georg, 562, 563, 592
Guardini, Romano, Prayer in Practice, 590
Guerry, Alexander, 181, 184
Gunn, Thom, 395, 463
Guy of Warwick, 383

Haggard, H. Rider, 399
Haggin, B. H., 127, 133, 135, 137, 234, 260
Hall, Donald, 418, 472, 477
Halliday, E. M., 22, 24, 29, 35, 39, 47, 132, 146, 150, 346, 443, 450, 469
Hamburger, Michael, Modern German Poetry 1910–1960, 590
Hamilton, Ian, “John Berryman,” 553, 617
Handel, George Frideric, 127
Han Suyin [Rosalie Chou], 286
Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 31, 100, 149, 202, 210, 272, 276, 296
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 277, 281, 285, 362, 375, 424, 449, 453, 488, 575, 619
Hardy, Florence, The Early Years of Thomas Hardy, 57
Hardy, Thomas, 58, 59, 72, 86, 146, 160, 165, 170, 207, 208, 286, 622
Harper’s Magazine, 55, 422, 436, 437, 455, 490, 553, 577
Harris, Bernard, Early Shakespeare, 563
Harris, Seymour, “Catholic Higher Education: The Economic Issues,” 463
Harrison, G. B., 370, 563
Harsnett, Samuel, 175–176
Hart, Alfred, 182, 596
Hartt, Frederick, Florentine Art Under Fire, 612
Harvard Advocate, 61, 555, 568, 620
Harvard University, 96, 228, 395, 401, 551; JB reading at, 154, 434, 440, 442, 444, 446, 452, 453, 470, 486, 488, 527, 543; JB teaching at, 97–98, 100, 108, 113, 116, 117, 119, 126, 129, 133, 137, 141, 142, 145, 275, 276, 278, 287, 288, 290–291, 385, 395, 461, 470, 562; precarity at, 129, 135, 146, 151, 153, 154; Widener Library, 113, 131, 141, 185
Hastings, James, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, 596
Hastings, Leslie, 143
Haughton, William, 257–258, 274, 368, 378, 403, 491
Hawes, John T., 361, 362, 368
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 387
Haydn, Joseph, 124, 132, 139, 562
Hayes, Raphael, 92, 96
Haynes, Chris, 204, 305, 573
Hazlitt, William, 25
health, JB’s, 29–30, 31, 87, 95–96, 108, 262, 278, 280–281, 287, 338, 343, 404, 470, 475, 500, 514, 522, 593; eyesight, 20, 159; gastrointestinal disorders, 275, 287, 380, 525, 593, 594; infections, 344, 345–346, 348, 355–356; injuries, 125, 279, 280, 281, 285, 299, 335, 444, 445, 446–447, 448, 449, 451, 460, 461, 470, 546, 556, 558; medication, 86, 355, 371, 376, 421, 458, 503, 504, 506, 508, 509, 511, 513, 514, 519, 522, 546; skin, 18, 499; sleep, 95, 126, 142, 273, 281, 287, 299, 363, 376, 380, 381, 390, 391, 583, 593, 594, 615; teeth, 40, 44, 276, 532; weight, 30, 365, 620, 622. See also alcohol; psychoanalysis
Heath-Stubbs, John, Wounded Thammuz, 138, 139
Hecht, Anthony, 279, 281, 282, 283, 354
Heffers Bookshop, 32, 589
Hemingway, Ernest, 249, 251, 334, 365, 386, 432, 450, 454, 521
Henriques, Robert, 171
Henry Holt (publisher), 55, 67, 162, 186, 205
Henslowe, Philip, 257
Herbert, George, 306
Herbst, Josephine, 392, 436
Herndon, William, Herndon’s Lincoln, 259
Herrick, Robert, 72
Hesse, Hermann, 589
Hildegard of Bingen, 596
Hillyer, Robert, 154, 228–229, 230
Hindemith, Paul, 127
Hitler, Adolf, 125
Hoagland, Edward, 351, 354, 366, 374, 392, 421, 422, 495, 509, 546, 550, 552, 567, 623
Hobbes, Thomas, 23
Hodgson, Aurelia Bolliger, 621
Hodgson, Ralph, 523, 563
Holland, Cecelia, 542
Hollander, John, 622
Homer, 78, 80, 211, 277–278, 307, 312, 321, 519, 572, 574, 576, 620
Hone, Joseph, W. B. Yeats, 139
Hood, Thomas, 208
Hook, Sidney, 471
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 25, 59, 150, 152, 208, 306, 396, 401, 519, 556, 568
Hopkins Review, The, 236
Hopwood Award Committee, 94
Horowitz, David, Shakespeare: An Existential View, 589
Horrell, Joseph, 92, 96
Houk, Raymond, “The Evolution of The Taming of the Shrew,” 175
Houlden, James Leslie, Paul’s Letters from Prison, 596
Hound and Horn, 25, 27, 46, 195, 420
Housman, A. E., 173, 292, 383, 447, 463, 501, 608
Howard, Henry, Earl of Surrey, 208, 210
Howard, Jane, 554, 570, 621
Howe, Irving, 238, 249
Howells, William Dean, 322, 427
Hubler, Edward, “The Verse Lining of the First Quarto of King Lear,” 167
Hudson Review, The, 243, 249, 298, 430, 468, 512, 594
Hughes, Daniel, 440
Hughes, Ted, 543, 576
Huizinga, Johan, 576
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 156–157
Huxley, Aldous, 23, 463
Huxley, Julian, 387
Hyde-Lees, Georgie, 246

Ibsen, Henrik, 321, 365, 369
Ignatius, St., 149
India, 332, 333, 334, 335, 337, 338, 348, 349, 352, 366, 402, 466; Ahmedabad, 345; Cuttack, 359; Delhi, 345; Kolkata, 344, 359; Mumbai, 342–343, 345; Patna, 343; Pune, 343, 344, 346, 466; Varanasi, 343, 344, 346, 350, 466, 467, 559
international travel, JB’s. See Canada; England; France; Greece; India; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Mexico; Spain; Tangier
Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 270, 272, 274, 276, 277–278, 279–280, 282, 284, 288, 290, 291, 292, 302, 305, 396, 422, 456, 599, 600
Ireland, 545, 550; Dream Songs about, 535, 536, 537; Dublin, 476, 484, 485, 489, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 554
Issa, Kobayashi, 352
Italy, 266, 333, 346, 349, 351; Rome, 267, 268
Iwaniuk, Wacław, “Posłowie dla Pani Bradstreet,” 407, 502

Jackson, Charles Reginald, 247
Jaeger, Werner, Early Christianity and Greek Paideia, 563
James, Henry, 94, 106, 136, 153, 321, 367, 375, 381, 385, 420, 426, 427, 463, 623
James, Henry, Sr., 194
James, William, 321
Japan, 333, 349, 352; Kyoto, 335, 339, 341–342, 346, 347, 348, 350; Tokyo, 339–340, 343
Jarrell, Mackie Langham, 476
Jarrell, Mary, 526
Jarrell, Randall, 34, 58, 75, 181, 191, 194, 209, 229, 268, 272, 427, 445, 467, 473, 476, 517, 520, 525, 526, 529, 531, 535, 539, 544, 613, 616
Jay, Eric G., Origen’s Treatise on Prayer, 590
Jeffares, A. Norman, “The Byzantine Poems of W. B. Yeats,” 194
Jerome, St., 589, 596
John of Bordeaux (anonymous), 302
Johnson, Samuel, 34, 70, 74, 138, 563, 596
Jones, Claude, “Stephen Crane: A Bibliography of His Stories and Essays,” 214–215
Jones, David, 473
Jones, Gayl, 599
Jones, Leroi. See Baraka, Amiri
Jonson, Ben, 246, 248, 257
Jouvet, Louis, 46, 489
Joyce, James, 25, 145, 188, 191, 194, 203, 251, 294, 385, 420
Julian of Norwich, 296, 596
Justice, Donald, 282, 288, 294, 300, 305, 308, 311, 354, 378, 600

Kafka, Franz, 78, 192, 329, 420, 606
Kahler, Erich, 198, 206, 236, 243, 254, 315, 350
Kasper, John, 353
Keast, Kay Meredith, 523
Keats, John, 38, 152, 208, 263–264, 438, 452, 456, 540
Kees, Weldon, 283
Kemp, William, 257
Kennedy, Edward, 442–443, 558
Kennedy, John F., 443, 500, 546, 548
Kenner, Hugh, “Bearded Ladies & the Abundant Goat,” 241, 242
Kent, Rockwell, 524
Kenyon Review, The, 73, 180, 184, 193, 430, 436, 526, 566; JB in, 65, 72, 83, 98, 143, 166, 186, 205, 249, 477, 483, 484, 490
Kermode, Frank, 498, 576
Kerouac, Jack, 428
Kessler, Milton, 548
Keyes, Sidney, The Iron Laurel, 138, 139
Khayyam, Omar, 125
Khrushchev, Nikita, 398
Kierkegaard, Søren, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164, 192, 201
Kilmartin, Terence, 418, 445, 479
King, Henry, 55
Kinsella, Thomas, 529
Kinugasa, Teinosuke, Gate of Hell, 308
Kirchwey, Freda, 260
Kirschbaum, Leo, The True Text of “King Lear,” 174
Kitzinger, Sheila, The Experience of Childbirth, 590
Kizer, Carolyn, 429, 435, 444, 448
Klein, Melanie, 591
Klineberg, Otto, “A Science of National Character,” 387
Knight, G. Wilson, 46, 299
Kogan, Herman, 485
Kray, Elizabeth, 539, 544, 548
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 23, 82, 239
Kunitz, Stanley, 268, 394, 406, 417
Kyd, Thomas, 299, 300

La Bruyère, Jean de, Les Caractères, 375
Laevius, 311
Lahey, Gerald F., Gerard Manley Hopkins, 152
Lamb, Charles, 25
Landor, Walter Savage, 463
Lardner, Ring, 447
Larkin, Philip, 379, 596
Lattimore, Richmond, The Iliad of Homer, 574
Laughlin, James, 50, 51, 52–53, 56, 82–83, 85, 90, 94, 97, 100–101, 104, 109, 112, 114, 117, 124, 129, 131, 139, 143, 149, 166, 172, 189, 190, 199, 218, 220, 221, 222, 606; Five Young American Poets, 82, 84, 87, 93, 96, 102–103, 105, 113, 122, 124–125, 149, 186, 202
Lawrence, D. H., 387, 554, 562, 563
Lawrence, T. E., 171
Lawrence, W. W., Shakespeare’s Problem Comedies, 596
Leach, Edmund, Claude Lévi-Strauss, 589
Leal, Juan, Novum Testamentum, 589
Leaney, Alfred, A Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Luke, 589
Leavis, F. R., 46, 194, 427
Ledward, Patricia, 170, 180
Lee, Sidney, Shakespeare’s England, 300
Levertov, Denise, 510, 520, 613
Levine, (Elizabeth) Ann, 299, 307, 310, 319, 322, 325, 339, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 351, 359, 362, 371, 374, 376, 378, 383, 389, 396, 399, 401, 405, 409, 448, 492, 499, 506, 521, 568, 580, 582, 591, 604; divorce from JB, 376; as “Mabel,” 348, 392, 506; marriage to JB, 329, 352, 363
Levine, Philip, 305, 306
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 589
Lewis, C. S., English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, 315
Lewis, Percy Wyndham, 52, 463
L’Hommedieu, Dorothy, Topper and Madam Pig, 324
Library of Congress, 228, 233, 333, 349, 351, 370, 412, 427–428, 435, 440, 445, 455, 488, 609
Life, 547, 548, 598, 606
Lincoln, Abraham, 70, 259–260, 426, 517, 578
Lindsay, Vachel, 560, 693, 1128
Linebarger, J. M., 568, 606
Linson, Corwin Knapp, “Stephen Crane,” 215
Little, Martha May Shaver (JB’s grandmother), 37, 451
Little Review, 189
Litz, A. Walton, Modern American Fiction, 469
Lofting, Hugh, Doctor Dolittle, 279
Lombardo, Linda T., 599, 600
London, Kurt, 65
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 361
Lope de Vega, 195
Lowell, Robert, 58, 181, 185, 186, 191, 195, 201–202, 203, 210, 251, 270, 272, 274, 276, 277, 278, 279, 281, 282, 288, 305, 323, 327, 356, 362, 375, 378, 387, 413, 414, 415, 416–417, 418, 422, 423, 428, 431, 433, 437, 438, 439, 446, 450, 488, 489, 490, 502, 507, 509, 513, 515, 520, 536, 537, 540, 556, 557, 597, 619, 621, 622; advice from, 298, 432, 451, 456, 488; anthologized, 415, 417, 419, 447; mental illness, 285, 548, 573, 575; readings with JB, 494, 495, 496, 497; review of 77 Dream Songs, 507, 510, 511, 512, 513, 515, 516, 521; status as a writer, 209, 354, 396, 423, 434, 448, 455, 464, 517, 544, 603, 613
Lowry, Malcolm, 191, 192, 295
Lubbock, Percy, The Craft of Fiction, 427
Luther, Martin, 295–296, 302
Lyly, John, 300
Lynch, William, 312, 314, 324, 433, 463

Maas, Paul, 164, 168, 182, 184, 185
Mabry, Thomas, 282
Macaulay, Rose, The Towers of Trebizond, 332
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 173, 435
Macdonald, Dwight, 87, 194, 196, 197, 208, 219, 223, 249, 263, 354, 439, 440
Macdonald, Nancy, 196, 197, 209, 219, 223, 249, 250, 263, 305
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 151
MacLeish, Archibald, 52, 54, 138, 170, 229, 428
Macmillan, 53, 55, 62, 65, 66, 67, 70, 195, 207, 474, 607
MacNeice, Louis, 91, 268, 269, 290, 292, 323, 487, 488, 489, 498, 563
Mailer, Norman, 247, 354, 445
Malinowski, Bronisław, 386
Malone, Edmond, 167
Malraux, André, 304, 612
Manifold, John, 208
Mann, Thomas, 192
Maraini, Fosco, Meeting with Japan, 390
Marcuse, Herbert, 590
Marek, George, Beethoven, 589
Maritain, Jacques, 299, 303, 323, 407
Marlowe, Christopher, 257, 258, 260, 299
Marshall, John, 163, 166, 177, 178, 184, 244
Marshall, Margaret, 80, 200, 240, 260
Marston, John, 257
Martinson, Harry, Aniara, 473
Martz, William J., John Berryman, 569, 606
Masaryk, Jan Garrigue, 210
Masters, Edgar Lee, 25, 361
Matisse, Henri, 59, 267
Matthiessen, F. O., 427
Maximilian, Anita. See Phillips, Anita Maximilian
Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 544
Mayewski, Paweł, 407
McCarthy, Harold E., “T. S. Eliot and Buddhism,” 257
McCarthy, Mary, 253, 497
McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees, 163, 183, 370
McNeile, A. H., An Introduction to the Study of the New Testament, 315
Melville, Herman, 387, 604, 605
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, The, 263
Meredith, George, 208, 556
Meredith, William, 432, 434, 438, 457, 473, 476, 481, 489, 497, 511, 517, 525, 527, 533, 534, 535, 536, 542, 544, 550, 553, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 564, 565, 566, 568, 570, 572, 573, 574, 577, 581, 594, 599, 603, 613, 621, 622
Meridian, 400, 413, 426, 427, 451, 477
Merriam, Eve, 104
Merrill, James, 453, 508, 511, 613
Merwin, W. S., 282, 283, 354, 579, 613
Mexico, 562, 564, 572, 574; Mexico City, 573, 575, 580
Michelangelo Buonarotti, 596, 612
Michener, James, 245
Middleton, Thomas, 48
Milano, Paolo, 282
Miles, Josephine, 234, 391, 505
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 255, 592
Miller, Arthur, 328, 334, 346, 421
Miller, Henry, 396
Milne, A. A., 44
Milton, John, 35, 138, 152, 188, 201–202, 208, 253, 321, 413
Mizener, Arthur, 270
Moe, Henry Allen, 219, 231, 402
Moers, Ellen, 590
Molière, 488–489
Montagu, Ashley, 303
Montaigne, Michel de, 43, 300, 421
Monteith, Charles, 451, 502, 505, 539, 587, 595
Moore, Marianne, 165, 211, 457, 505, 536
Moore, Merrill, 208
Moorman, Mary, William Wordsworth, 563
Moos, Malcolm, 609
More, Thomas, 421
Morgan, Frederick, 206, 250, 258, 259
Morley, Thomas, 264
Morrison, Kay Johnston, 436
Morrison, Theodore, 97, 125, 131, 153, 154
Morse, Samuel French, 58, 59, 60
Moses, W. R., 75, 84, 85, 90, 114
Moss, Howard, 283
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 124, 129–131, 132, 139, 145, 157, 321, 562, 567
Mulligan, Eileen. See Simpson, Eileen
Munday, Anthony, 299
Munford, Howard, 334, 344, 358, 410, 427, 592
Murray, James A. H., A New English Dictionary, 601
Myers, John Bernard, 499

Nabokov, Vladimir, 368, 588
Nash, Ogden, 439, 451, 613
Nashe, Thomas, 183, 282, 370, 383, 391
Nation, The, 54, 148, 187, 192, 260; JB poems in, 88, 139, 205, 508, 515, 518, 520; as poetry editor, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77, 78–79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86, 88, 91, 92, 98, 100, 108, 324, 338; reviewed in, 510, 519, 522, 543, 579, 584, 585
National Institute of Arts and Letters, 503, 524, 609
National Poetry Festival, 427–428, 431, 435, 436, 439, 451, 455, 464, 612–613
Needham, Joseph, Science and Civilisation in China, 596
Neff, Emery, 239–240, 587
Nelson, Conny, Homer’s Odyssey, 576
Nemerov, Howard, 283
Neruda, Pablo, 588
New Directions, 52, 86, 98, 140, 186, 224, 271, 300; New Directions 9 (1946), 166
New Directions in Prose and Poetry (1938), 50, 53, 58, 83, 98, 140, 166; New Directions in Prose and Poetry (1939), 83; New Directions in Prose and Poetry (1941), 132. See also Laughlin, James
New English Weekly, The, 191, 199
New Masses, The, 54
New Republic, The, 83, 108, 114, 272, 436, 437, 446, 455, 462, 472, 474, 475, 498, 617
New World Writing, 418, 423, 424, 456, 484
New Yorker, The, 201, 245–246, 248, 249, 296, 354, 430, 435; JB poems submitted to, 201, 362, 371, 409, 418, 424, 432, 444–445, 543, 569, 570–571, 573, 585, 586, 589, 594, 617
New York Review of Books, 473, 474, 488, 515, 542, 546, 597
New York Times, 103, 198, 206, 333, 418, 419, 475, 505, 514, 559
New York Times Book Review, 271, 355, 504, 521, 554, 621
Nieder, Charles, 216
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 315
Nims, John Frederick, 413, 414, 456
Noble Savage, The, 375, 381, 392, 404, 414, 418, 419, 437, 445, 455, 506, 525
Norris, Frank, 195
North, Thomas, 49

Oates, Whitney Jennings, 235, 270, 350
Observer, The, 418, 432, 436, 437, 445, 446, 448, 451, 454, 455, 472, 479, 483, 487, 505, 541, 553, 572
O’Connor, Edwin, The Last Hurrah, 375
O’Connor, Flannery, 299, 301, 354, 373
Odell, George Clinton Densmore, 22
O’Donnell, George Marion, 46, 50, 51, 52, 55, 57, 60, 68, 73, 75, 78, 85, 93
Ogden, C. K., 177, 179, 185
O’Hara, John, 247
Old Meg of Herefordshire for a Mayd Marian, 257
Oliver, Joseph “King,” “St. James Infirmary,” 379
Olivier, Laurence, 46
Olson, Charles, 192, 199
Olson, Elder, 47
Onions, C. T., A Shakespeare Glossary, 235
Opie, Iona and Peter, 315, 474
Origen, 457
Orlovitz, Gil, Concerning Man, 200
Orwell, George, 382, 385, 430
Ostroff, Anthony, 384, 389, 391, 392, 395, 406, 413, 416, 418, 431, 443, 472, 478, 480, 505
Otway, Thomas, 43
Ovid, 188
Owen, Wilfred, 165, 170
Oxford Classical Dictionary, The, 311
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, The, 370
Oxford English Texts, 370
Oxford Junior Encyclopedia, 315
Oxford University Press, 65, 152, 161, 469, 595; Shakespeare series, 162, 163, 164, 174, 183, 185, 235, 469, 595

Page, P. K., 312
Paige, D. D., 203, 240
Palmer, D. J., Shakespeare: The Tempest, 576
Parke, H. W., Greek Oracles, 589
Partisan Review, 61, 87, 189, 193, 196, 208, 217, 294, 435, 453, 588; JB in, 83, 98, 173, 186, 202, 205, 209, 224, 226, 232, 262, 272, 304, 356, 418, 423, 432, 436, 437, 451, 455
Pascal, Blaise, 578, 589, 615
Pasternak, Boris, 365
Patchen, Kenneth, 56, 85, 170
Patmore, Coventry, 241
Patterson, Albion, 20, 21, 22
Paul, St., 302, 578, 596
Pausanius, 175
Pearse, Patrick, 545
Peckinpah, Deneen, 392, 397, 527, 567
Peele, George, 299, 300, 302
PEN, 329, 502
Perényi, Eleanor, “Wilson,” 476
Perls, Fritz, 570
Petersen, Donald, 288, 308
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), 555
Pettet, E. C., Shakespeare and the Romance Tradition, 576
Pharr, Clyde, 277
Phillips, Anita Maximilian, 279, 280–281, 282, 283, 286, 287, 292, 295
Philokalia, 313
Picasso, Pablo, 86, 91
Pick, John, Gerard Manley Hopkins, 152
Piranesi, Givanni Battista, 317
Pisanello (Antonio di Puccio Pisano), 188
Plath, Sylvia, 479, 529, 530, 536, 541, 543, 563, 574, 576, 619
Plato, 23, 24, 300, 519, 563, 578, 607
Plochmann, George Kimball, 47
Plotinus, 576
Plutarch, 540
Poe, Edgar Allan, 387
Poetry, 61, 193, 211, 224, 232, 366, 512, 524; JB in, 256, 312, 316, 319, 432, 434, 436, 437, 439, 446, 455, 474, 477, 482, 483, 487. See also Carruth, Hayden; Rago, Henry; Shapiro, Karl
politics, 56, 187, 193, 202–203, 260, 270, 327–328, 338, 360, 428, 443, 558, 594; Cold War, 397, 398, 524; Communism, 152, 229, 245, 503; Ezra Pound’s politics, 228–229, 230, 348, 353; international politics, 173, 208, 210, 330; in JB’s work, 66, 68, 71, 129, 323, 351, 431, 442–443, 464, 486, 490, 496, 500, 548, 575; Korean War, 270; “national character,” 387; in other writers, 52, 74, 94, 374; political science, 611; US presidential elections, 14, 258, 327; Vietnam War, 539, 591, 595; World War 2, 95, 100–101, 103, 106, 123, 125, 135, 141, 145, 191, 236, 538
Politics, 194, 197, 209
Pollard, A. W., 321
Polletta, Gregory, 440
Pope, Alexander, 49, 70, 294, 425
Popol Vuh, 445
Porson, Richard, 176–177
Porter, Cole, 598
Porter, Katherine Anne, 56
Posner, David, 507, 512, 516, 551
Pound, Dorothy, 190, 191, 192, 199, 348
Pound, Ezra, 35, 50, 53, 62, 165, 170, 188, 189, 191, 192, 194, 199, 200, 203, 210, 212, 218, 222, 225, 226, 240, 260, 279, 323, 328, 334, 348, 353, 359, 459, 463, 505, 613; Cantos, 188, 189, 190, 200, 218, 220, 221, 222, 226, 228–231, 278, 424; Selected Poems, 221, 222, 224, 606
Powers, J. F., 247, 251, 354, 433, 435, 505, 613
Priestley, J. B., 41
Prince, F. T., Poems, 131
Princeton University, 85, 86, 87, 88, 94, 156–157, 167, 171, 180, 248, 349–350; Hodder Fellowship, 235–236, 243, 245, 249, 403, 468, 593, 614; JB reading at, 262, 265, 266, 304, 606; JB teaching at, 154, 155, 159, 180, 184, 190, 191, 198, 199, 216–217, 224
Princeton University Press, 160, 215, 244–245
Pritchard, William, 587, 594
Pritchett, V. S., The Spanish Temper, 466
Prokofiev, Serge, 139
Prokosch, Frederic, 54, 56, 60
Proust, Marcel, 192, 502, 607
Pryce-Jones, Alan, 269, 419
psychoanalysis, 307, 313, 314–315, 363, 393, 446, 461, 494, 570, 580
Pulitzer Prize, 108, 336, 524, 529, 572, 573, 595, 605, 610, 615
Purcell, Henry, 127
Putnam, H. Phelps, 32

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 43
Quinn, John Kerker, 173

Rabelais, François, 175
race and racism, 15–16, 187, 230, 459, 471, 476; anti-Semitism, 10, 15, 187; Jewish identity, 430, 437, 617; minstrel dialect in JB’s work, 459, 515, 527
Rago, Henry, 293, 316, 318, 432, 459, 460, 468, 479, 482, 485, 487, 488, 527
Rainer, Dachine, 213
Ralegh, Sir Walter, 210
Ramayana, 445
Ramparts, 446, 451, 456, 458, 460, 462, 464, 465, 466, 467, 468, 469, 474, 476, 486, 488
Rank, Otto, 592
Ransom, John Crowe, 31, 32, 34, 35, 40, 46, 51, 52, 58, 59–60, 62, 131, 171, 189, 208, 211, 219, 279, 406, 439, 464, 483, 484, 566, 613
Raysor, T. M., Coleridge’s Shakespearean Criticism, 300
Read, Herbert, 194, 290, 464, 612
Reader’s Digest, 371
Reeve, F. D., 567, 587
Reichert, Victor E., Job, 315, 330
religion, 30, 386–387, 562; Buddhism, 279, 386–387, 554; Catholicism, 9, 136, 152, 187, 270, 313, 314–315, 404, 423, 433, 441, 451, 463, 466, 467, 468, 473, 478, 608–609, 615; Christianity, 370, 386–387, 439, 562, 588, 590, 611; God, 17, 137, 307, 421, 574, 620; Islamic studies, 286; JB’s belief or unbelief, 121, 291, 378, 437, 451, 550, 569, 570, 578, 579, 581–582, 583, 588, 618; in JB’s poems, 457, 517, 569, 577, 591–592, 594, 595, 605, 617; Judaism, 617; study of Hebrew, 281, 285–286, 330, 348; Zen, 335, 341, 342, 387. See also The Bible
Rembrandt van Rijn, 38, 289, 559, 578
Renoir, Jean, 392, 397
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 267, 289
Reporter, The, 524
Retort, An Anarchist Quarterly of Social Philosophy and the Arts, 213
Review of English Studies, The, 175, 185, 194, 235
Reynolds, Charles, 361
Reynolds, Frederick, The Dramatist, 44
Rhys, Keidrich, The Van Pool & Other Poems, 138
Rice, Philip Blair, 58, 101, 112
Rich, Adrienne, 510, 519, 530, 535, 536, 539, 540, 542, 543, 553, 557, 560, 562, 567, 577, 579, 613; “Mr. Bones, He Lives,” 510, 520, 521, 553
Richards, I. A., 46
Riding, Laura, 58, 67
Ridler, Anne Bradby, 61
Riley, James Whitcomb, 221
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 81, 106, 148, 156, 159, 312, 619
Rimbaud, Arthur, 194
Robb, Roger, 486, 490
Robeson, Paul, 42
Robinson, E. A., 25, 208
Rochefort, Christiane, Repost du Guerrier, 370
Rockwell, Dorothy, 23, 27, 28, 40
Roethke, Theodore, 267, 311, 323, 327, 334, 350, 354, 406, 436, 449, 457, 484; death of, 484, 487, 488, 489, 526, 529, 544; DS 18, 487, 488, 496
Rook, Alan, Soldiers, This Solitude, 138, 139
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 125, 426
Rosenfeld, Isaac, 293, 350, 430
Rosenzweig, Harriet, 388, 389, 390, 391, 405
Ross, Alicia, 380, 392, 394, 396, 434, 440, 461, 462, 491
Ross, Ralph Gilbert, 291, 299, 320, 321, 329, 343, 349, 362, 378, 379, 385, 388, 392, 394, 399, 404, 405, 410, 417, 418, 420, 430, 434, 436, 439, 442, 446, 458, 460, 461, 465, 468, 472, 477, 483, 484, 491, 493, 519, 522, 528, 529, 535, 603; The Arts of Reading, 361, 369, 373, 385, 395
Rossetti, Christina, 525
Rousel, Louis, “Shakespeare’s Greek,” 175, 176
Rowley, William, The Witch of Edmonton, 46
Rowse, A. L., 379, 380
Russell, Bertrand, 103
Rutledge, Dom Denys, In Search of a Yogi, 466–467
Ryan, Richard, 576
Rylands, George, 34, 45, 46
Rynne, Xavier, Letters from Vatican City, 466

St. John’s College, Annapolis, 51, 53, 62, 79
Sämisch, Friedrich, 197
Sandburg, Carl, 70, 428
Sansom, William, 195
Santayana, George, 375, 387, 523, 554, 563, 607
Sappho, 557
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 192
Sato, Satoru, 284
Saturday Review of Literature, The, 215, 228–231, 235, 260, 331, 577
Savory, Gerald, George and Margaret, 614
Schevill, James, 395
Schiller, Friedrich, 206
Schmidt, Alexander, Shakespeare-Lexicon, 300
Schreiner, Olive, 408, 492
Schrödinger, Erwin, 386
Schubert, David, 252
Schubert, Franz, 128, 139, 200, 215, 321, 555, 562
Schücking, Levin, A Shakespeare Bibliography, 300
Schwartz, Delmore, 66, 79, 81, 85, 95, 98, 100, 139–140, 151, 154, 155, 158, 180, 186, 191, 200, 211, 219, 241, 242, 250, 294, 305, 324, 395, 410, 417, 440, 446, 474, 594, 615, 623; death, 534, 535, 544, 613; in The Dream Songs, 534, 551; mental illness, 438–439, 440, 446
Schwebell, Gertrude, Huldigung für Mistress Bradstreet, 531, 552, 598
Scott, Walter, 251
Scott, Winfield Townley, “Mistress Bradstreet and the Long Poem,” 366
Seaver, Edwin, Cross Section 1947, 195
Seif, Morton, “Not Quite Prose?,” 472
Seton, Anya, 430
Sewall, Samuel, 324
Sewanee Review, The, 180, 181, 189, 190, 193, 205, 358, 430
sexuality and gender, 10, 19, 23, 40–41, 48, 137, 315, 363, 393; and Freudian psychoanalysis, 393, 592; homoeroticism, 351; marriage generally, 351–352, 543; masculinity, 3; misogyny, 93, 96, 97, 104; sexual orientation, 215, 618–619; and women writers, 510, 536, 543, 558
Shafarman, Eugene, 106, 121, 338
Shahn, Ben, 299, 304, 306, 307, 309, 312, 317, 323, 328, 447, 456, 505
Shakespear, Dorothy. See Pound, Dorothy
Shakespeare, William, 34, 148, 167, 180, 188, 257, 299, 478, 578; All’s Well that Ends Well, 370, 594; Antony and Cleopatra, 138; As You Like It, 46, 287, 421; Coriolanus, 176; Cymbeline, 315, 562; Edward III (attributed), 180; Fair Em (attributed), 300; Hamlet, 37, 46, 174, 176, 182, 183, 246, 257, 295, 420, 499, 560, 562, 564; 1 Henry IV, 246, 385; 2 Henry IV, 146, 167, 246, 257; Henry V, 309; Julius Caesar, 246; King John, 25, 176, 298, 299, 302, 383; King Lear, 163, 164, 166–167, 174–179, 182–183, 184–185, 195, 246, 321, 417, 564, 576; Locrine (attributed), 300; Love’s Labour’s Lost, 257, 421; Macbeth, 246, 365, 369; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 201–202; Much Ado about Nothing, 309; Othello, 163, 174, 183, 185, 246, 295; Pericles, 174, 389; “The Phoenix and the Turtle,” 34; Richard II, 24, 246; Richard III, 174, 183, 246, 594; Romeo and Juliet, 180, 315, 321; Sir Thomas More (attributed), 195, 300; Sonnets, 208, 378, 563; The Taming of the Shrew, 257, 298, 368, 378, 403, 509; The Tempest, 176, 274, 294, 421, 554, 576; Timon of Athens, 370, 421; Troilus and Cressida, 174, 183, 185; Twelfth Night, 149, 210; The Winter’s Tale, 483
Shapiro, Karl, 240, 242, 254, 256, 435
Shaw, George Bernard, 23, 543
Shawn, William, 245
Shea, James E., 219, 287, 393
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 55, 72, 205, 321, 338
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 59
Sherrington, Charles, 386, 387
Shigemori, Mirei, 341, 342
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 524
Sickman, Laurence, The Art and Architecture of China, 370
Sidney, Sir Philip, 208
Siegelman, Ellen, 319, 320, 381, 405, 434, 446, 462, 483, 509, 529, 535
Siegelman, Philip, 319, 405, 434, 442, 446, 509, 529
Silkin, Jon, 572
Silvers, Robert, 541, 546, 617, 619
Simpson, Eileen, 122, 123, 125, 126, 128, 129, 133, 134, 136, 137, 142, 144, 149, 151, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158, 161, 162, 164, 166, 168, 169, 181, 185, 204, 205, 209, 233, 249, 266, 267, 271, 276, 280, 285, 305, 323, 335, 344, 349, 350, 356, 378, 526, 583, 588, 608, 613; clinical psychologist, 245, 263, 265, 583, 597; health, 170, 171, 216, 217, 219, 220, 259, 260, 269; separation from JB, 270, 271–274, 304, 606
Simpson, Louis, 400, 572
Sisam, Kenneth, 163, 174, 182, 184, 235
Sitwell, Edith, 134, 175
Skeat, W. W., 601
Slavitt, David, “Deep Soundings and Surface Noises,” 517
Sloane, William, 162, 227, 237, 310
Smith, Datus C., 196, 243
Smith, G. D., The Teaching of the Catholic Church, 315
Smith, Harrison, 228–229, 234
Smith, John Allyn, 9, 295, 384, 394, 472, 500, 577, 591
Smith, Logan Pearsall, Words and Idioms, 601
Snedeker, Garnette, 40
Snodgrass, W. D., 396, 438, 439, 449, 451, 454, 456, 460, 461, 464, 477, 502, 507, 512
Snow, Edgar, Red Star Over China, 606
Snyder, Gary, 613
Soper, Alexander, The Art and Architecture of China, 370
Southern, Richard William, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, 596
Southern, Terry, 399, 459
Southern Review, The, 32, 33, 45, 46, 50, 52, 53, 56, 62, 63, 69, 83, 93, 98, 116, 193, 205
South Kent School, 10–11, 16, 19, 98, 205, 546, 621
Spain, 333, 335, 337, 346, 347, 349, 352; Ávila, 347–348; Barcelona, 348; Toledo, 346, 350, 377
Sparrow, John, 35
Spencer, Theodore, 114, 154
Spender, Stephen, 46, 62, 192, 379, 419, 424, 429, 448, 449, 450, 472, 475, 477, 489, 505, 573, 613
Spengler, Oswald, 192
Spenser, Edmund, 113, 138, 188, 321
Stafford, Jean, 185, 191, 195, 210, 247, 504
Stallman, R. W., 412
Starrett, Charles Vincent, 214
Steele, Francesca Maria, The Life and Visions of St Hildegarde, 596
Steevens, George, The Plays of William Shakespeare, 176
Steeves, Harrison R., 81, 99
Stegner, Wallace, 498
Stein, Gertrude, 613
Stein, Leo, “Ritual and Reality,” 194
Steiner, George, The Death of Tragedy, 590
Steinmann, Jean, St Jerome and His Times, 589, 596
Stendhal, 215–216
Stevens, David, 178, 182, 184
Stevens, Wallace, 31, 32, 34, 55, 74, 75, 105, 150, 165, 170, 212, 453, 464, 483
Stevenson, Adlai, 258, 327, 335
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 590
Stevenson, W. B., The Poem of Job, 329–330
Stewart, Gervase, 170
Stewart, Helen, 226, 227, 237–239
Stewart, Thomas A., 553
Stewart, Walter W., 192, 238
Stickney, Trumbull, 208, 590
Stiehl, Harry, 437, 440, 445, 447, 455, 463, 467, 468
Stitt, Peter, 591
Stoll, Elmer Edgar, 607
Stolper, B. J. R., Stephen Crane, 214
Stoneburner, Tony, 523
Straus, Roger, 549, 567, 599
Strauss, Richard, 127
Stravinsky, Igor, 127
Stryk, Lucien, 485
Styron, William, 295, 354
suicide, 332, 356, 588–589, 591; father’s, 295, 349, 381, 394, 439, 472, 494, 500, 577, 581, 591; of others, 269, 314, 435, 454, 526, 529, 543, 577; own thoughts of, 272–273, 399, 401, 493, 585
Sullivan, J. W. N., 321, 593
Sullivan, Nancy, 457
Swan, Emma, 90, 91, 107
Sweeney, John Lincoln, 328, 441
Swift, Jonathan, 40, 47, 247, 543
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 435
Symons, Julian, 58, 59, 101

Tangier, 348, 517
Tanner, Tony, 397, 554
Tate, Allen, 28, 32, 34, 45, 46, 49, 52, 53, 54, 56, 61, 62, 67, 70, 71, 77, 78, 82, 84, 85, 87, 88, 93, 98, 101, 179, 184, 186, 189, 193, 207, 208, 211, 229, 260, 261, 262, 270, 290, 292, 294, 301, 306, 321, 323, 324, 331, 332, 333, 334, 361, 362, 365, 369, 379, 385, 435, 436, 437, 447, 462, 465, 471, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 498, 503, 509, 528, 567, 612, 613, 616; The Arts of Reading, 361, 369, 373, 385, 395; editor of The Sewanee Review, 173, 179, 180, 193; estrangement from JB, 529, 616; views of JB’s work, 33, 64, 102, 298, 331, 414, 507, 513, 516
Tate, James, 613
Taylor, Vincent, The Gospels, 457
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 563
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 34
Theobald, Lewis, Double Falsehood, 596
Thomas, Caitlin Macnamara, 275–276, 290, 292
Thomas, Dylan, 47, 101, 150, 165, 191, 208, 251, 274–276, 290, 292, 323, 338, 350, 386, 392, 406, 563, 603
Thomas Y. Crowell (publisher), 356, 361, 363, 371, 381
Thomes, A. Boyd, 326, 329, 341, 343, 347, 363, 371, 376, 393, 395, 400, 409, 428, 435, 442, 444, 446, 458, 475, 476, 491, 506, 508, 509, 522, 534, 540, 622
Thomes, Maris McQuarrie, 326, 329, 341, 347, 363, 367, 376, 400, 428, 435, 442, 444, 446, 458, 462, 475, 534, 536, 539, 622
Thompson, Edmund B., 140
Thompson, Lawrance, Robert Frost: The Early Years, 563
Thomson, George, Aeschylus and Athens, 563
Thoreau, Henry David, 164, 201
Thorp, Margaret Farrand, 157
Thorp, Willard, 157
Tillyard, E. M. W., 35, 427
Time, 161, 189, 238, 246–247, 263, 400, 457, 484, 504, 509, 511, 515, 524, 541, 555, 621
Times (London), 380, 381, 500, 530, 537, 546
Times Literary Supplement, 171, 175, 194, 285, 361, 368, 387, 438, 472, 477, 502, 503, 553, 572, 612, 616; Dream Songs, 379, 418, 419, 437, 487, 488, 536, 540, 541, 542, 545; “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,” 269, 306, 310, 486; Love & Fame, 567, 570, 573
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 387, 554
Tolstoy, Leo, 63, 216, 386, 554
Tone, Theobald Wolfe, 545
Tovey, Donald Francis, Essays in Musical Analysis, 127
Townsend, James, John Davidson: Poet of Armageddon, 435
Toynbee, Arnold, 160, 192, 197
Toynbee, Philip, “The Two Robert Frosts,” 448
Traherne, Thomas, 43
Traversi, Derek, 299, 301
Treece, Henry, 165, 171
Trilling, Lionel, 197, 234, 239, 251
Trollope, Anthony, 53, 562, 563, 564
Trueblood, Valerie, 532, 537, 542, 554, 561, 584
Tschacbasov, Alexandra, 280, 282, 283, 288, 292, 323, 325, 330, 346, 360, 381, 382, 434, 519
Tuve, Rosemond, A Reading of George Herbert, 306
Twain, Mark, 241–242, 327
Twentieth Century Verse, 58, 59–60, 75

Uccello, Paolo, 598
Unamuno, Miguel de, 288, 603, 613
United States State Department, 323, 332, 333, 335, 340, 344, 351, 352, 360
University of Buffalo, Poetry Collection, 121–122
University of California, Berkeley, 388, 393, 401, 424, 443, 614, 617; faculty at, 395, 400; isolation at, 389, 390, 391; teaching at, 384–385, 388, 392, 396–397
University of Cincinnati, 250, 252, 253, 266, 270; Ellison Lectures, 403, 468
University of Minnesota, 320–321, 402–403, 491, 519, 529, 591; colleagues, 365, 413, 439, 462, 472, 611; JB teaching, 289, 291, 292, 293, 296, 301, 302, 307, 319, 332, 349, 385–387, 442, 520, 560, 585, 593, 603, 604, 614, 618–619, 623; observation, 425–426; promotion, 332, 436, 491, 558, 559; sabbatical, 458, 465, 492–493; teaching load, 362, 368, 599, 601, 609–611, 617, 622
University of Utah Writers’ Conference, 373, 374, 379, 380, 381
University of Vermont, School of Modern Critical Studies, 247, 249, 252
Untermeyer, Louis, 103, 202, 223–224, 224, 225, 613
Upward, Edward, 63

Vaillant, George C., Aztecs of Mexico, 562, 564
Valentine, Jean, 557
Valéry, Paul, 194, 367, 561
Van Doren, Dorothy Graffe, 53, 119, 124, 141, 157, 162, 165, 171, 220, 439, 482, 531, 609
Van Doren, Mark, 25, 26, 29, 30, 33, 35, 45, 52, 54, 68, 88, 89, 99, 100, 108, 113, 119, 124, 141, 142, 148, 153, 154, 155, 158–162, 164, 168, 171, 211, 220, 229, 239, 290, 306, 323, 368, 428, 436, 438, 451, 464, 476, 482, 513, 530, 534, 550–551, 564, 566, 568, 570, 572, 586, 588, 598, 603, 607, 613, 616, 621; JB poems for, 169–170, 482, 534; teaching, 22, 23, 25–26, 108, 353
Van Gelder, Robert, 184
Van Gogh, Vincent, 38, 194
Vaudrin, Philip, 208
Vaughan, Henry, 43
Vendler, Helen, 554
Vespucci, Simonetta, 606
Viereck, Peter, 229
Viking Press, 262, 276, 296–298, 301, 304, 305
Villon, François, 200, 478
Virgil, 277, 321
Virginia Quarterly, 52, 103, 193, 332, 432, 508
Vossler, Karl, 164, 188, 195
Voznesensky, Andrei, 544, 574, 588, 623

Wagoner, David, A Place to Stand, 366
Walcott, Cornelia, 201, 253
Walcott, John, Terrible Children, 253
Walker, Alice (literary scholar), 183
Walsingham, Francis, 563
Walton, Eda Lou, 35
Walton, Izaak, 42
Walton, William, 134
Wang, Arthur, 464
Warlock, Peter, 127, 132, 145
Warner, Rex, 440
Warren, Robert Penn, 45, 49, 56, 57, 58, 61, 62, 63, 64, 70, 75, 83, 86, 116, 189, 211, 385, 411, 549, 608, 622
Warshow, Robert, 350
Warton, Thomas, 208
Watkins, Vernon, 488
Watson, Wilfred, Friday’s Child, 323
Watt, Ian, 400
Watteau, Jean-Antoine, 267, 289, 576
Watts, Alan, The Way of Zen, 387
Wayne University, 78, 79, 80, 81–82, 93, 97, 98, 104, 117, 253, 338, 449, 459
Way of a Pilgrim, The, 563
Weaver, Raymond, 22, 82
Weigel, Gustave, “Ecumenicism and the Catholic,” 313
Weil, Simone, 197, 563, 589
Weiss, Renée Karol, 252
Weiss, Theodore, 247, 251, 252
Wellesley, Dorothy, 203, 215
Wescott, Glenway, Apartment in Athens, 327
West, Deborah, 358
Weston, William, The Autobiography of an Elizabethan, 309
Wheelwright, John Brooks, Rock and Shell, 32–33
White, Katharine, 201
Whitman, Cedric, Homer and the Heroic Tradition, 368
Whitman, Walt, 221, 251, 321, 334, 378, 385, 387, 408, 425, 426, 427, 515, 578, 590
Whittemore, Reed, 598, 612
Who’s Who, 268, 320, 354, 373, 617
Wilbur, Richard, 336, 337, 354, 413–414, 423, 434, 438, 439, 440, 446, 451, 456, 488, 496, 516, 517, 549, 561, 567, 572, 573, 574, 575, 586, 622, 623
Williams, Ames W., 214, 217
Williams, Charles, The New Book of English Verse, 474
Williams, Oscar, 114, 122, 123, 149, 150, 151, 165, 170, 172, 173, 198, 338, 472, 613, 621–622
Williams, Tennessee, 334
Williams, William Carlos, 200, 211, 229, 434
William Sloane (publisher), 207, 214, 220, 239, 245, 252, 476
Willis, Edmond, An Abbreviation of Writing by Character, 174
Willis, John, The Art of Stenographie, 174, 177–178
Wilson, Edmund, 62, 221, 231, 238, 246, 248, 255, 262, 267, 270, 296, 298, 323, 324, 348, 430, 435, 447, 449, 453, 455, 456, 475, 561, 567, 594, 608
Wilson, Elena, 255, 348, 349, 453, 455, 475
Wilson, F. A. C., W. B. Yeats and Tradition, 576
Wilson, F. P., A Second Elizabethan Journal, 370
Wilson, John Dover, 246, 257
Winslow, Ann, Trial Balances, 559
Winston, Clara, 253, 589
Winston, Richard, 589
Winters, Yvor, 189, 194, 200, 211, 361, 426, 512
Witte, Karl, “The Art of Misunderstanding Dante,” 349
Wolfe, Michael, 489
Woman Hard to Please, A, 257
Wordsworth, William, 24, 60, 72, 77, 104, 140, 194, 208, 294, 563, 572
Wouk, Herman, 430
Wright, James, 366, 418, 428, 472, 508, 512, 515, 523, 592, 621
Wright, Thomas, Reading Poems, 216
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 188, 191, 208, 210, 555, 572

Yeats, W. B., 31, 32, 33, 38, 46, 50, 56, 57, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 72, 139, 145, 151, 165, 170, 188, 203, 208, 215, 230, 248, 279, 321, 323, 420, 457, 529, 540, 545, 576
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 544
Young, Blamire, The Proverbs of Goya, 195, 321

Zabel, Morton Dauwen, 89
Zukofsky, Louis, 203