Acknowledgements

WE ARE grateful to the staff of the London Library for their endless helpfulness and courtesy, and in particular to Richard Wilson for his generous assistance with the identification and translation of Eliot’s references to Greek texts. We are also grateful to Professor Jean-Louis Chevalier, Marjorie Semple, Joan Stephenson, Dr Stanley Taylor and Margaret Whitehead for their assistance in the identification and translation of Eliot’s foreign language quotations. Peter Caracciolo and Professor Kathleen Tillotson helped us to track down some particularly obscure allusions and, in the case of the latter, gave memorable guidance on bibliographical sources.

We are grateful to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University for permission to reproduce the extract from ‘The Ilfracombe Journal’ and the Eliot–Harrison correspondence from Gordon S. Haight’s edition of The George Eliot Letters, and ‘Notes on Form in Art’.