Accademia, Florence, 120
advanced-writing study, 72, 347
Albee, Edward, 237
Alcina (Handel), 273
alcohol use. See drinking behavior
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), 134, 222
All Quiet on the Western Front (film), 117
Alnwick Castle, England, 160
Alston, Miss Carrie, 70
Alston, Mr. Ed Falc, 70
Amsterdam, Holland, 175
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), 259
Anne, Princess Royal, 147
“Anniversary, The” (Price), 68, 161–63, 182, 295, 311
anti-American attitudes, 61, 178–79
Antinous, 128
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 50
Ashton, Frederick, 100
Astor, Mrs. Brooke, 44
Atheneum, 374–76, 377, 378, 385, 388
Auden, W. H., 43, 128, 159, 210, 221, 233, 242, 256
drinking habits of, 138, 143, 226–27, 228, 229–30, 346
homosexuality of, 137, 141, 227, 276
later visits with, 142, 199, 226–30, 232, 273, 274–75, 286, 346
on Milton, 274–75
Oxford teaching by, 136 (illus.), 137–41, 143–44, 218
recommendation from, 143
Avebury, England, 145
Balliol College, Oxford University, 49, 144
Bardot, Brigitte, 91–92
Baum, Hessie, 361
Bayley, John, 47, 191, 200, 235, 274
Beavers, Wesley, 377–80
Beckett, Samuel, 65
Beckett, Thomas, 149
Bedford, Brian, 262
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 212, 276
Benchley, Robert, 107
Bennett, Claude and Betty, 335
Bennett, Marcia Drake, 180 (illus.)
Bergen, Norway, 160–61
Berlioz, Hector, 220
Bernac, Pierre, 129
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo, 85, 87
Bessie, Simon Michael, 376, 385
Bevan, Mr. and Mrs. Harry, 181–83
Blackburn, William (Bill), 156 (illus.)
early support for Price’s work from, 55–57, 124, 146, 329, 375, 377
publication of Price’s work and rejection by, 329–30
Price’s teaching at Duke and, 252–53, 310, 324, 370
Rhodes Scholarship application suggested by, 155–57
support for Price’s work by Paris Review/Styron and, 124, 146
Welty’s review of Price’s work and, 55–57
Blackwell’s, Oxford, 68, 98, 289
Blackwood’s Magazine, 155
Blair, Robert, 354–55
Blake, William, 354–55
Blenheim Palace, 134–35, 191, 229
Bloxton, Brutus, 301, 304, 305
Boatwright, Jim, 356, 358, 359, 360–61, 368
Boboli Gardens, Florence, 56 (illus.), 73
Bodleian Library, Oxford University, 43–44
reading at, 55, 58, 98, 102, 107, 188, 218
temporary loss of a book owned by Milton from, 120–23
Bogarde, Dirk, 91
Böhm, Karl, 171
Bonynge, Richard, 273
Borghese Gardens, Rome, 80, 87
Bower, Anthony, 56 (illus.)
Bowes-Lyon, Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 147, 148, 264
Bowra, Sir Maurice, 231–32
Brando, Marlon, 12
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 60
Bridge on the River Kwai, The (film), 292
Bridges, Robert, 277
Brighton, England, 147, 149, 155, 166, 198, 201, 220, 223, 238–41, 390
Brook, Peter, 235
Brooks, Cleanth, 142–43
Brown v. Board of Education, 67
Bulganin, Nikolay, 123
Burton, Richard, 128, 235, 284 (illus.)
Buttinger, Muriel Gardiner, 350, 352
Caesar and Cleopatra (Shaw), 50
Callas, Maria, 100
Camus, Albert, 235
Calvocoressi, Peter, 217
Cambridge University, 60, 66, 270, 279
Canova, Antonio, 87
Cantelli, Guido, 158–59
Canterbury, England, 149
Canterbury Tales, The (Chaucer), 128, 142
Caravaggio, 87
Carroll, Lewis (Charles Dodgson), 134, 139, 189, 222, 279
Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome, 86
Cather, Willa, 315
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams), 49
Cecil, Lord David, 45–47, 221, 225, 256
on Auden, 140
comments on Price’s short stories from, 125–26, 219, 370
on Connolly, 207
on creating female characters, 259–61
doctoral degree preparation and, 258, 269, 285, 374
friendship with, 194–95, 200, 247–48, 258, 274, 283–85, 390, 391
literature discussions with, 126–27, 151, 152, 190, 208, 341
Oxford classes with, 42, 43, 44 (illus.), 45–46, 54, 66, 98
Cecil, Hugh, 46
Celtic background of Price family, 181–82
Chagall, Marc, 226
“Chain of Love, A” (Price), 55, 70, 72, 124, 125–26, 182, 200, 201, 202, 205, 216, 271, 295, 311, 340, 378
Chappell, Fred, 157, 322, 323, 326, 327, 347
Charles, Prince of Wales, 147
Chatto and Windus, 217, 294, 333, 376
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 128, 317, 371
Chekhov, Anton, 57, 126, 237, 276–77
Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov), 276-77
Christ Church, Oxford University, 24, 60, 134, 138, 140–41, 143, 226, 227
Christmas celebration, in Rome, 76, 77–79, 81, 83
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 27
CIA
Encounter magazine and, 202, 272
Radio Free Europe and, 111, 173, 202
Cinderella (ballet), 100
Circus Maximus, Rome, 82
civil-rights movement, 67–68, 243–45
Civil War, 16–17
Clarissa (Richardson), 98
Clark, Kenneth, 289
Clear Pictures (Price), 1
“Closing, the Ecstasy, The” (Price), 283
Coghill, Nevill, 277
friendship with, 131, 133, 194–95, 230, 250, 258, 285–87, 390, 391
Oxford lectures, 45, 127–29, 194–95, 370
as Price’s thesis examiner, 269–70
productions directed by, 127–28, 142, 143, 228, 284 (illus.)
Coghill, Sir Patrick, 128
Collected Poems, The (Price), 283
Collins, Wilkie, 132
Cologne, Germany, 174
Combs, Bill and Marie, 324–25
commemoration ball, Merton College, Oxford University, 62–64
Connolly, Cyril, 205–07, 208, 211, 212, 256
Copenhagen, Denmark, 167–68
Cornwall, England, 152–54, 266–67
Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, 34–35
Corydon (Gide), 18
Cranborne, Hannah, 47
Craxton, Anthony, 209
Craxton, Essie, 209
Craxton, Harold, 209
Craxton, Janet, 209
Craxton, John, 208–09, 237–38, 266–67, 273, 282, 289, 390
Cunningham, Imogen, 344 (illus.)
Dachau camp, Germany, 170–71
Darling (Schlesinger), 131
Darwin, Charles, 57
Davenport, Guy, 329
David Cecil (Cranborne), 47
Davis, Crichton, 370
Davis, Herbert, 42–43
“Dead, The” (Joyce), 243
Dead Man’s Walk, Merton College, Oxford University, 32, 217
Defoe, Daniel, 190
Delft, Holland, 177
Delicate Balance, A (Albee), 237
Delon, Alain, 389
DeMille, Cecil, 77
Denmark, 167–68
Devil’s Disciple, The (Shaw), 125
Dickens, Charles, 256
Dickinson, Emily, 138
Diodati, Charles, 193
Dobtcheff, Vernon, 230
doctoral degree
Price’s desire for, 179–81
Price’s preparation for, 258–59, 269–70, 285, 374
Doctor at Sea (film), 91
Dr. Faustus (Marlowe), 14, 230–31, 284
Dodgson, Charles (Carroll, Lewis) 134, 139, 189, 222, 279
“Dog’s Death, A” (Price), 183, 187
Donatello, 73
Dönitz, Karl, 169
Donne, John, 42, 131, 279, 317, 371
Dorchester, England, 151–52
Dort, Deede, 149
Drake, Ida Rodwell, 83, 305, 307, 383–84
Drake, Mildred, 311
drinking behavior
Auden and, 138, 143, 226–27, 228, 229–30, 346
Duke fraternity socializing and, 14
father’s problems with, 12, 14, 125, 309
Jefferson’s love of French wines at Monticello and, 3
Dubliners (Joyce), 243
Duel of Angels (Giraudoux), 237
Duino Castle, Italy, 110 (illus.), 111–12, 114 (illus.)
Duino Elegies (Rilke), 40, 110, 111, 112, 114
Duke Humfrey Library, Oxford University, 98, 123
Duke Medical Center, 1
Duke University, Price as a student at, 2, 11, 14, 125
campus of, 32–33
later contact with fellow students from, 104, 149, 294
Misterfofelees, fraternity nickname, 14
senior year and honors thesis at, 24, 40
studies at, 32, 40, 55, 68, 70, 71, 155–57, 168, 243
Duke University, Price as a teacher at
advanced-writing study and, 72, 347
conferences with students and, 316–17
as first teaching position, 219, 252, 253
first year as, 313–22
friends during, 324–26
second year as, 322–24
time for writing and schedule at, 335–39
Dunstanburgh Castle, England, 160
Durham Cathedral, England, 160
Dyson, Hugo, 131
East of Eden (film), 15
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 199, 243
“Elegy for William Butler Yeats” (Auden), 143
Eliot, T. S., 27, 32, 33, 137, 139, 256, 360
Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 147, 148, 263
Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 147, 148, 264
Ellington, Duke, 39
Emma (Austen), 190
Encounter (magazine), 201, 202, 203, 205, 216, 234–35, 238, 271, 272, 342, 355, 363, 373, 378
English language, 42, 60, 63, 149
Entertainer, The (Osborne), 250
Erasmus, 34–35
Euripides, 120–22
Evans, Arthur, 277
Exeter College, Oxford University, 127, 128, 286
Fall, The (Camus), 235
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 315
Farrar, Geraldine, 214
Faulkner, William, 258
Fenton, Charles, 359–64
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, 171
Fisher, M. F. K., 138
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 256, 258, 315–17
Flagstad, Kirsten, 212
Flaubert, Gustave, 126, 259, 341
Fletcher, John, 231
Florence, Italy, 68–74, 81, 89, 120
Fonteyn, Margot, 100
Forster, E. M., 69, 126, 127, 179, 212, 258, 270, 341
Fox, Nancy Jo, 294
“Fox, The” (Lawrence), 341
Freud, Lucian, 208
Freud, Sigmund, 106
Fuller, John, 274
“Galax, The” (Tyler), 321
Gardner, Helen, 42, 43–45, 54, 66, 95, 96 (illus.), 248, 258, 285, 290, 370
thesis discussions with, 97–98, 124–25, 197–98, 245
as tutor, 97–98, 129–31, 135, 147, 154, 194–95
Garrard, Garry, 63, 64, 103, 105, 108
Gay, Lulie Price, 16
Gide, André, 18
Gielgud, John, 49, 128, 237, 262–66, 265 (illus.), 272, 279–82, 284, 367
Giorgione, 107
Giraudoux, Jean, 237
Glyndebourne, England, 149
Go-Between, The (Hartley), 127
Golden House, Rome, 86–87
Goltz, Christel, 106
Gone With the Wind (film), 236, 237
Good Priest’s Son, The (Price), 257
graduate studies, Oxford University, 35–36
Grave, The (Blair), 354–55
Graves, Robert, 84
Grayson, Jeremy, 265 (illus.)
Great Depression, 12, 13, 17, 89
Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald), 315
Greene, Graham, 265, 272, 338–39
Griffin, Jim, 23, 24, 35, 144, 189, 226
Florence trip with, 52, 54, 65, 66, 68–70, 73, 89
visit to London with, 64–65
Guggenheim Fellowship, 143
Guinness, Alec, 236
Hague, Holland, 176
Hallam, Arthur, 193
Hamilton, Hamish, 217
Hamlet (Shakespeare), 49, 168, 284
Hamlet (film), 49
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 230
Hammett, Dashiell, 256
Hampshire, Stuart, 200
Handel, George Frideric, 273
Hardy, Thomas, 126, 151–52, 179, 190, 258, 259, 341
Harris, Julie, 15
Harvard University, 59, 164, 179–80, 246, 296, 324
Harvey, William, 33
Hastings, England, 149
Haydn, Hiram, 271, 374, 375–76, 376–77, 388, 389
Haydn, Michael, 388
Haydn, Mary, 388
Heap, Peter, 100, 245, 260 (illus.), 261, 342
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 370
Hecht, Anthony, 388
Hemingway, Ernest, 111, 154, 256, 258, 315, 338, 359, 360, 384–85
Henry VIII (Shakespeare), 281–82
Hertford College, Oxford University, 43
History of the World, A (Roberts), 132
Hoad, Lew, 155
Holden, William, 292
Holland, 174–76
homoerotic poetry, of Shakespeare, 158, 242
Auden and, 137, 141, 227, 230, 242, 276
Cecil’s discussion about love and, 127
friends while teaching at Duke and, 355–56
Gielgud’s openness about, 263–66, 367
graduate students at Duke and, 356–58
Oxford undergraduates and, 194
among Price’s family, 223
Price on, 366–67
Price’s first erotic relationship with Matyas and, 261–62, 268
Price’s interest in straight men and, 241–42
Queen’s Irish Guards and, 273–74
Wolfenden Report on, 277
writing and physical intimacy and, 268–69
honors thesis, Duke University, 24, 40
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 277, 279, 380
Hungary, 198
Idomeneo (Mozart), 149
“In Praise of Limestone” (Auden), 143
Irving, Sir Henry, 265
Isherwood, Christopher, 347
Italy
Price’s desire for another trip to, 224
Price’s trips to Florence, 52, 54, 65, 66, 68–74, 81, 89, 120
Price’s trip with Jim Griffin to, 75–93
Price’s trip with Michael Jordan to, 103, 104, 105–20, 110 (illus.)
Welty’s trip to, 56 (illus.)
Ivanov (Chekhov), 237
Jackson, Bill, 27, 28, 30, 31–32, 36, 146, 147, 381
James, Henry, 190
Jazz Club di Venezia, 108–09
Jefferson, Thomas, 2–3
John XXIII, pope, 113
John of the Cross, St., 32
Johnson, Samuel, 121, 122, 279
Jones, Howard Mumford, 181
Jordan, Anne
Price and son’s visits with, 147, 154, 155, 198, 223, 238–39
Price’s visits with, 240, 241, 390
Jordan, Michael, 162 (illus.), 192 (illus.)
Brighton visit with mother of, 147, 154, 155, 198, 223, 238–39
close friendship with, 58, 93, 100–101, 162, 173, 193–94, 239, 241, 254, 293, 332–33
driving trip on the Continent with Price and, 135, 158–77
first meeting with, 38–39, 194
local road trips with Price, 102, 134–35, 147, 148 (illus.), 149, 150–51, 239
Oxford studies of, 132, 179, 213, 218, 220, 230, 233–34
possible attraction to, 101, 146, 193
Princeton fellowship for, 219, 230, 241, 253–54, 294, 332, 342, 345
social activities with, 49, 54, 63, 218–19, 230
trip to Italy with, 103, 104, 105–20
trips to London with, 64, 66, 125
twenty-first birthday celebration for, 144–46
Oxford lodgings and, 135–37, 155, 177, 179, 181, 186, 187, 191, 192 (illus.)
Kallman, Chester, 136, 138, 139, 141, 142, 144
Karajan, Herbert von, 105
Kaufman, Wallace (Wally), 322, 347, 349–51, 352–54, 353 (illus.), 382–83, 391 (illus.)
Keats, John, 380
Keble College, Oxford University, 48
Khrushchev, Nikita, 109–11, 123, 198, 295
King, Martin Luther, 67
King Lear (Shakespeare), 49–51, 65, 265, 280, 369, 372
Kinsey, Alfred, 23
Kirk, Stella, 148 (illus.), 160
Kirkby, Jack, 137, 155, 179, 181, 183–85, 186, 188, 191, 192, 196, 219, 224–25
Kirkby, Win, 137, 155, 179, 181, 183–88, 186 (illus.), 188, 191, 192, 196, 197, 219, 223, 224–25, 230, 234, 247–48, 249, 390
Kirkham, Dr., 48
Kitt, Eartha, 167
Knowles, John, 338
Koestler, Arthur, 314
Kolve, Del, 22–23
Kristol, Irving, 202
Labour Party, 60, 184, 187, 230, 247
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 348
Langland, William, 128
Larkin, Philip, 279
La Scala, Milan, 105–06
Last Judgment, The (Michelangelo), 118
Last Supper, The (Leonardo), 106–07
Lawrence, D. H., 126, 258, 336, 341, 348
Lawrence, T. E., 154
“Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love” (Auden), 143
Lean, David, 236
Leander, Birgitta, 166
Learning a Trade (Price), 334
Leavis, F. R., 46
Lehman, Rosamond, 231
Leigh, Vivien, 50 (illus.), 51, 217, 228, 235–37
Leishman, J. B.
anti-American attitude of, 61
appearance of, 40–41
first meeting with, 39–41
lack of meetings with, 66–67, 95, 97
second meeting with, 58
Le Nozze de Figaro (Mozart), 171
Leonardo da Vinci, 71, 73, 106–07
Les Troyens (Berlioz), 220
Lewis, C. S., 39, 137, 186, 285, 286
Liddell, Alice, 189
Lie Down in Darkness (Styron), 124
literature
discussions with Cecil on, 126–27, 151, 152, 190, 208, 341
discussions with Coghill on, 127–29
lectures at Oxford on, 42–45, 98, 132, 190
Litvin (Spender), Natasha, 203, 210, 220, 221
London, England, trips to, 49, 100, 104–05, 125, 220, 228, 235, 250, 262, 272, 276–77
loneliness
poem on, 20–21
Long and Happy Life, A (Price), 2
publishing of, 217, 294, 333, 376–80, 385, 390, 391
writing of, 259, 294, 305–06, 312, 339, 355, 366, 374
Ludwig, Christa, 171
Lyell, Frank, 138
lyric verse, 157
Macaulay, Rose, 212
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 50, 51, 128, 280
McCarthy, Mary, 346
Macdonald, Dwight, 202
McNelly, Liz, 109, 110 (illus.), 111, 112, 113, 135, 169–73
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 259
Magdalen College, Oxford University, 144, 184, 226
Magic Flute, The (Mozart), 226
Mallam, Dr., 52
Mann, Thomas, 126
Manon Lescaut (Prévost), 132
Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 147
Marlowe, Christopher, 14, 157, 230, 284
Martin, Violet, 128
Masefield, John, 277–78
Mathiessen, Peter, 146
Matyas, 262, 266, 267, 268, 269, 276–77, 278, 279, 281, 282–83, 294, 333, 343, 382, 390
Maugham, Somerset, 256
Maupassant, Guy de, 126
May, Henry, 310–11, 335, 345, 383
Mayr-Harting, Henry, 28–29, 31, 38, 101
Medici Chapel and Palace, Florence, 73, 120
Meistersinger, Die (Wagner), 220, 273
Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 45
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers, play), 15
Menapace, John, 156
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare), 49, 62
Merton, Walter de, 26
Merton College, Oxford University
anti-American attitudes at, 61
arrival and first day at, 27–37
campus and gardens at, 32
car purchase while attending, 101–02
commemoration ball at, 62–64
daily life in rooms at, 27, 30–32, 34–35
evenings at, 36–37
final days at, 283–93
food served at, 30–31, 51–52, 58–59, 100
friendship with faculty members at, 131–34, 258
health during attendance at, 47–49, 51–52, 54, 58, 100–101, 247–48, 249
important graduates of, 26–27
initial doubts about life at, 37
Mob Quad residence at, 27–28, 29–30, 54
opinion of Brits initially met at, 41–42
plays and theatrical events attended at, 49–51, 54
plumbing and showers at, 27, 28, 30, 34, 64–65, 101, 381
postwar social changes at, 60
reading and studies at, 54–55, 58
scout Jackson at, 27, 28, 30, 31–32, 146, 147
sense of history at, 33
short stories written at, 55, 57–58
thesis approval and completion of program at, 270–71
winter’s dark, short days at, 47, 54, 93, 94, 224, 225
tutor Gardner at, 97–98, 129–31, 147, 194–95
tutor Leishman at, 39–41, 58, 61, 66–67, 95, 97
vacation lodgings during breaks at, 135–37, 155, 177, 179, 181, 186, 187, 191, 192 (illus.)
metaphysical poetry, 140
“Michael Egerton” (Price), 57, 125–26, 182, 295, 311
Michelangelo, 71, 73, 85, 86, 88, 118, 333
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 128
Milan, Italy, 105–07
Milles, Carl, 166
Mills, John, 236
Milton, John, 54, 55, 109, 128, 134, 138, 317, 371
Auden on, 274–75
Duke University honors thesis on, 24, 40
Samson Agonistes of, 41, 86, 97, 179, 197–98, 309
temporary loss of Bodleian’s copy of a book owned by, 120–23
as thesis subject at Oxford University, 29, 36, 41, 70, 97–98, 130–31, 188, 289, 309
Misterfofelees (fraternity nickname at Duke), 14
Mob Quad, Merton College, Oxford University, 27–28, 29–30, 47, 381
Modesti, Giuseppe, 159
Mont Blanc, as inspiration for a short story, 68, 70, 72
Monticello, 2–3
moral expectations of teachers, 347–49
moral fiction, 126
Moses (Michelangelo), 86
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 149, 171, 173, 214, 259
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 211
Munch, Edvard, 164
Munich, Germany, 135, 169, 171, 174
Murray, Gilbert, 277
My Father and Myself (Ackerley), 19
National Gallery, Oslo, 164–65
NBC Symphony, 214–15
Nevelson, Louise, 351–52
New College, Oxford University, 43, 59, 125, 184, 200, 246, 274
New Theatre, Oxford, 49
New York City, 12, 13, 15, 350, 351
Nuttall, Anthony (Tony), 45, 94, 98, 121, 187, 230, 231, 244 (illus.), 245–46, 247, 248, 250, 258, 390, 391
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway), 384–85
Olivier, Laurence, 49, 50 (illus.), 51, 128–29, 228, 235, 236–37, 250, 280
“One Sunday in Late July” (Price), 355
On the Waterfront (film), 12
Orwell, Sonia, 212
Oslo, Norway, 160–66
Ostia, Italy, 86
Owen, Wilfred, 64
Oxford, England
Khrushchev’s visit to, 123
plays and theatrical events in, 49–51, 54
student life and activities in, 33–34, 58
young women and airmen meeting in, 227
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The, 40–41
Oxford History of English Literature, The, 42
Oxford Magazine, The, 41
Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, 49
Oxford University, 2, 29. See also Merton College
American students at, 59, 67, 98, 102, 144, 195–96, 224, 226
Auden as Professor of Poetry at, 136, 137
lectures on literature attended at, 42–45, 98, 132, 190
plays and theatrical events at, 49–51
postwar social changes at, 60
qualifying exams at, 102–03
undergraduate and graduate degree system at, 35–36
voyage with other Rhodesters to attend, 11, 13, 15, 22–23, 24
Oxford University Examination Statutes, The, 35
Pakenham, Thomas, 185
Palatine Hill, Rome, 84–85
Palinurus (pseudonym for Connolly), 208
Pantheon, Rome, 88
Paradise Lost (Milton), 40, 54, 249, 372
Pardoner’s Tale, The (Chaucer), 371
Paris Review, The, 124, 146, 200, 202, 216, 237
Parker, Mary Lee, 307
Parks, Rosa, 67
Pascal, Blaise, 339
Pentimento (Hellman), 350
Phèdre (Racine), 365
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 147, 148
Philpot, Glyn, 283
Piazza della Signoria, Florence, 120
Picasso, Pablo, 213
Pietà (Michelangelo), 71, 73, 85
Pitti Palace, Florence, 73
Pius XII, pope, 86
“Place in Fiction” (Welty), 55
poem, on loneliness, 20–21
poetry
Blackburn at Duke University and, 157
Ponte Vecchio, Florence, 73, 81
Pope, Alexander, 380
Porter, Katherine Anne, 258
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), 243
Potting Shed, The (Greene), 265, 272
Poulenc, Francis, 129
Powell, Anthony, 47
Power, Tyrone, 125
Prévost, Abbé, 132
Price, Bill (also called Will; brother), 81, 180 (illus.)
brother’s study at Oxford University and, 11, 13, 94–95
brother’s teaching at Duke and, 301, 330–31
life after death of father, 25, 94
Price family and, 308
Price, Elizabeth (mother), 81, 180 (illus.), 192
Christmas visit with, 252, 253–54
concern about marriage age of son, 221
financial pressures on, 25, 95
health of, 179
life after death of husband, 12–13, 25, 85, 94
as saleswoman, 331–32
son’s study at Oxford University and, 11, 13, 25, 94–95, 196–97, 221
son’s teaching at Duke and, 301, 311, 330–31, 383
Price, Martha Reynolds, 204
Price, Will (father)
Celtic background of family of, 181
close male friend of, 19
effect on Price of death of, 15, 21, 47–48, 52, 85, 115, 159, 191–93, 349
family’s financial state after death of, 25
Price on intelligence of, 208
Price’s short story themes and death of, 55, 58, 66
Princeton University
Jordan’s scholarship to, 219, 230, 253
Jordan’s visits from, 294, 342, 345
printing of Renaissance books, 42–43
Pritchett, V. S., 258
Prokofiev, Sergei, 100
publishing world, 217–18
Punch (magazine), 211
Quaintance, Dick and Charlotte, 324–25
qualifying exams for B.Litt, 102–03
Quayle, Anthony, 49
Queen’s Irish Guards, 273–74
Queen’s Rooms, Merton College, Oxford University, 32
Racine, Jean, 365
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford University, 218
Radio Free Europe (RFE), 109, 111, 170, 172, 173, 202
Radda, George, 198–99
Rake’s Progress, The (Stravinsky), 136, 138
Random House, 271, 294, 333, 374, 375
Real Charlotte, The (Somerville and Ross), 128
Rebel Without a Cause (film), 100
Redman, Joyce, 49
Redmayne, Pamela, 52–53, 62, 69, 74, 144–46, 155, 181, 190–91, 223, 226, 235, 247
Requiem (Verdi), 158–59
Rhine, J. B., 314
Rhodes, Cecil, 23
Rhodes Scholar, Price as
Blackburn’s support for, 155
costs not covered by the grant and, 25
periodic meetings with Warden Williams, 224
request for third-year funding in, 196–97
thesis approval and completion of program by, 270–71
Rhodes Scholars (Rhodesters)
choice of undergraduate or graduate studies by, 35–36
friendships at Oxford University among, 59, 226
Frost’s lecture and, 231
hospitality of and visits with Redmayne in Burford by, 53–54
qualifying exams and, 102
sports participation by, 23–24
U.S. election of Eisenhower and, 199
voyage to England with, 11, 13, 15, 22–23, 24
Richardson, Hamilton, 23, 154–55
Richardson, Ralph, 263
Richardson, Samuel, 98
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 40, 110, 111–12, 114
Roberts, Dorothy (Dot), 325–26, 356
Rocco and His Brothers (Visconti), 389
Rodwell, Wilton Egerton (Boots), 221–23
Rome, Italy
trip to with Jim Griffin, 74, 75–93
trip to with Michael Jordan, 113, 115–20
Room with a View, A (Forster), 69
Rosacoke (character), see Long and Happy Life, A (Price)
Ross, Martin, 128
Rotterdam, Holland, 175
Rudenstine, Neil, 59
Russell, Diarmuid, 57, 124, 140, 154, 200, 202, 216–17, 238, 271, 294, 323, 374–75, 376, 377, 378, 385–88
Russell, George, 386
Saint, Eva Marie, 12
St. Hilda’s College, Oxford University, 97, 129, 147, 148, 160, 220
St. Mark’s Cathedral, Venice, 107, 108, 112–13
St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, 85
“Saints in Caesar’s Household, The” (Tyler), 323
Salome (Strauss), 105–06
Salzburg, Austria, 171–73, 174
Samson Agonistes (Milton), 41, 86, 97, 179, 197–98, 309
San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, 86
Santa Maria in Galera (Galeria), Italy, 118–19
Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, 76, 78–79
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 108
Savage, Jane, 109–11, 112, 113–15, 135, 169–73, 172 (illus.), 250, 251
“Scars” (Price), 187
Schiavonetti, Luigi, 354–55
Schlesinger, John, 131
Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth, 159, 171
Schwartz, Alan U., 377–78, 379–80
“Scholar Gypsy, The” (Arnold), 134
Scofield, Paul, 49
Scream, The (Munch), 164
Sears, John, 144
seasonal affective disorder (SAD), 47
Selective Service System, 85, 168, 301–05
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 49, 50 (illus.), 62, 65
Shakespeare, William, 317, 371
lectures on, 98, 128, 157, 158
productions of plays of, 49–51, 62, 65, 128, 231, 235, 262, 265, 280, 281–82, 284, 369
Shakespeare the Thinker (Nuttall), 246
Shaw, George Bernard, 125
“Shield of Achilles, The” (Auden), 138, 229
short stories, doctorate research on, 258–59
short stories by Price
agent Russell and, 57, 124, 154, 200, 202, 216–17, 238, 374–75, 377
Cecil’s comments on, 125–26
Chatto’s contract offer for book of, 217
civil-rights movement in the South and effect on, 67
desire to be a good writer and, 71–72
early stories written at Oxford, 55, 57–58, 161–63, 182, 311
father’s death and themes of, 55, 58, 66
Spender’s support for, 201–03, 216
Styron’s support for, 124, 146–47, 238, 329–30
Welty’s evaluation of, 55–57
Sidney, Philip, 279
Sieverts, Frank, 49
Sistine Chapel, Rome, 87–88, 117–18
Smith, Grover, 360
Soames, Michael, 100
social change
civil-rights movement in the South and, 67–68
postwar in England, 60
social life at Merton College, Oxford
commemoration ball at, 62–64
dancing at, 63
friends and student life at, 58–61, 98–101
plays and theatrical events at, 49–51, 54
Somerville, Edith, 128
Source of Light, The (Price), 97
South
Civil War and, 16–17
Price’s background in, 42, 60, 61, 65, 133, 195, 215, 224
racial violence and civil-rights movement in, 67–68
Speaight, John, 98–100, 99 (illus.), 245, 261
Spender, Humphrey, 287–88
Spender, Lizzie, 203–04, 206, 221, 222 (illus.)
Spender, Matthew, 203–04, 206, 222 (illus.)
Spender, Natasha (Litvin), 203, 210, 220, 221
Spender, Stephen, 40, 43, 107–08, 129, 142, 206 (illus.), 211–12, 228, 229, 233, 344 (illus.)
family of, 203–204, 206, 272, 286–87
friendship with, 220, 256, 276, 390, 391
lecture tours in United States by, 344, 345–47, 350
letters of, 290–91
sexual outlook of, 201, 209–10, 271–72
social activities with, 230–31, 235–36, 272–73, 290
stays at homes of, 205–13, 220–21, 248–49
support for Price’s writing from, 201–03, 216, 234–35
sports
Oxford University and, 66
Rhodes Scholars and participation in, 23–24
Starkie, Martin, 142
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 175
Stevenson, Adlai, 199
Stignani, Ebe, 159
Stockholm, Sweden, 166
Stonehenge, England, 145
Strachey, Lytton, 126
Stratford-upon-Avon, 49, 50, 62, 128
Strauss, Richard, 105–06
Stravinsky, Igor, 136, 138, 140
Street, Mr. and Mrs. A. W., 103–04
Stringer, Wendy, 148 (illus.)
Strong Are Lonely, The (Hochwälder), 65
Styron, William, 124, 146–47, 238, 329–30
Sutherland, John, 290–91
Sweden, 166–67
Tagliavini, Ferruccio, 159
Taylor, Elizabeth, 284
teaching
Gardner’s career at Oxford University in, 96
moral expectations of teachers, 347–49
Price’s desire for a career in, 71, 255, 295–96
writing in conflict with, 296
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 262, 265, 371
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy), 152, 259
Thebom, Blanche, 220
thesis, Duke University, 24
thesis, Oxford University
examination and approval of, 270–71
Gardner’s meetings on, 97–98, 124–25, 197–98, 245
Milton as subject of, 29, 36, 41, 70, 97–98, 130–31, 188, 289, 309
second term focus on, 196, 213, 216, 219, 220
writing of, 223, 241, 246, 248, 249–50
Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 264
Thornton, Macon, 101–02
Thurn und Taxis family, 111, 112, 114
“Thyrsis” (Arnold), 134
Till, Emmett, 16
Till, Mr. (Surgeon), 51–52
Times Literary Supplement, 131
Tintagel, England, 152–54
Tintoretto, 107
Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare), 50, 51, 235, 237, 280
Tivoli, Copenhagen, 168
Tokunaga, Osamu, 271–72
Tolkien, J. R. R., 137, 184, 186, 258
Tolstoy, Leo, 126, 127, 132, 190, 259, 341
Toscanini, Arturo, 214–16
Towers of Trebizond, The (Macaulay), 212
Toys in the Attic (Hellman), 351
Traxler, Vieri and Nicoletta, 90–92, 118–19
Trilling, Lionel, 211–12
Trinity College, Oxford University, 60, 319
Tristan und Isolde (Wagner), 139
“Troubled Sleep” (Price), 313, 373–74
Turner, Arlin, 381–82
Tuve, Rosemond, 140
Twain, Mark, 17
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), 50, 51, 280
Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare and Fletcher), 231
Tyler, Anne, 318 (illus.), 319, 320, 321–22, 323–24
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 54, 71, 120
Umberto II, king of Italy, 88
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov), 276
Unquiet Grave, The (Connolly), 207–08
Ure, Mary, 49
Verdi, Giuseppe, 158–59, 214, 259
Vermeer, Johannes, 175, 176, 177, 205
Vickers, Jon, 220
Victor, Thomas, 44 (illus.)
Vigeland, Gustav, 164
Vikings, 165
Virginia Quarterly Review, The, 124
Visconti, Luchino, 389
Volkswagen car
learning to drive, 150–51
local drives using, 134–35, 147, 148 (illus.), 228, 278–79
road trip on the Continent with, 158–77
shipping to the United States, 288–89
tax problems with, 178–79
Wagner, Richard, 139, 214, 220, 259, 273
Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 65
Wales, 181–83
walking as recreation
at Oxford University, 24, 53–54
Wallace, Irving, 257
Walter, Bruno, 212
Ward, Charles, 252
Warner, Rex, 220
“Warrior Princess Ozimba, The” (Price), 55, 66, 182, 295, 311
Watson, Katherine, 190–91
Waugh, Evelyn, 60
Welitsch, Ljuba, 106
Wells Cathedral, England, 261
Welty, Eudora, 55–57, 56 (illus.), 71, 140, 258, 323, 386–87
Wesley (character), see Long and Happy Life, A (Price)
Westrate, Kees, 189
Wharton, Edith, 315
White, E. B., 315
Whole New Life, A (Price), 1–2
Williams, Emlyn, 256
Williams, Tennessee, 49
Wilson, Edmund, 352
Wilson, Elena, 352
Wimbledon, England, 23, 154–55, 158
Windsor Great Park, England, 147, 148 (illus.)
Wolfenden Report, 277
Wolfit, Donald, 65
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (Vermeer), 176
Woolf, Leonard, 207
Woolf, Virginia, 126, 127, 207, 256, 258, 291, 315
World War I, 27, 128, 131, 286
World War II, 13, 17, 26, 34, 59, 88, 89, 92, 133, 166, 229
World Within World (Spender), 201, 210, 217, 221
Wright, Adrian, 127
Wuthering Heights (Brontë), 285
Wyatt, Thomas, 157
Wynyard, Diana, 49
York, England, 159–60
York Minster, England, 159–60, 261
Ziegner, Hermann, 376
Zuleika Dobson (Beerbohm), 27