aesthetic delight, 90, 109, 264, 382n30
Aquinas, St Thomas, 81, 252–3, 377n11
Arnold, Matthew, 26, 46, 47, 52–3, 56, 59–60, 64–7, 82, 93, 110–11, 151, 199, 253, 255–6, 261, 274, 315, 320, 328n13, 333n10, 334n16, 335n22, 342n46, 346n6, 348n14
Asher, Kenneth, 60–1, 334n17 & n19, 370–1n30
Babbitt, Irving, 33–4, 49, 55, 62–4, 89, 170, 207, 286, 325–6n2, 331–2n3, 340n40, 355n6
Bates, Milton J., 112, 330n6, 352n32, 355n7, 393
Baudelaire, Charles, 130, 239, 254–7, 281, 322
Beaufret, Jean, 174–5, 355n5, 357n11
Belgion, Montgomery, 165, 174, 184, 203, 338n33, 345n1, 363n4
belief, 74–5, 77, 90, 128, 141, 157, 159, 160, 182, 188, 198, 199, 202, 227–9, 275–6, 339n37, 360n21, 369n25
in fictions 221
Middleton Murry on 241
in miracles 12, 137, 147, 243, 311, 314, 342n46, 390n28
postmodernism and 178–80, 380n22
pragmatism and 367n15
relative 222–6, 257. See also Pyrrhonism, Religious Belief
Belloc, Hilaire, 161, 332n5, 364n7, 376n10
Benda, Julian, 241, 315, 321, 377n11
Bergson, Henri, 49, 75, 80, 87, 167, 169, 182, 188, 203, 207, 215–18, 229, 247, 252, 262, 263, 262, 318, 355n4, 359n19, 360n20, 361n25, 366n14, 368n17, 372n33, 375n7, 376n8, 380n25
élan vital 67, 71, 94, 181, 218, 222. See also Eliot and Stevens
Blanshard, Bland, 318
Bohr, Niels, 337n29
Bradley, F.H., 5, 7, 60, 65, 67, 75–81, 84, 87, 89, 96, 110, 163, 165–167, 180, 183, 187–190, 205, 215, 241, 247, 252, 268, 319, 323, 337n30, 338n33, 339n37, 340n39, 341n33, 343n39, 348n39, 355n3, 359n19, 366n14, 374n3, 377n11
Appearance and Reality 59, 70, 71, 73, 81, 187, 247
“finite centre” 76, 114, 115, 181, 188, 189, 191, 213, 214, 269, 339n38, 348n16
idealism 56, 59, 70–4, 78, 80–1, 257, 340, 348, 367, 374
Principles of Logic 56
Bremond, Abbé, viii, 204–5, 220, 233–41, 255, 258, 261–3, 262–7, 270, 303, 319, 330n5, 364n5, 379n20, 380n24, 382n29, 382n31, 394
and Middleton Murry 240, 379n17
Eliot’s misreading of 379n18
Stevens on 380n25
on inspiration 244–251, 259, 262, 379n18, 381n26.
See also Intuition and Mysticism
Brentano, Franz, 338n33, 339n37
Brooker, Jewel Spears, 50, 132, 319, 334n16, 337n30
Browning, Robert, 145, 149–50, 254, 353n40
Buchanan, Robert, 346n6
Carlyle, Thomas, 53
Chamberlain, Neville, 227, 237n1, 351n31
Chesterton, G.K., 49, 161, 205, 206, 222, 332n5, 364n7
Childs, Donald, 70–1, 94, 272, 276–7, 336n26, 337n28, 345n2, 361n25, 373n3
Chinitz, David E., 390n29
Christianity, vii, 5–7, 12, 13–16, 68–9, 91, 97, 131, 145, 155, 163, 169, 172, 200, 207, 218, 221, 222, 231, 238, 253, 294–8, 300–1, 311–12, 314–16, 319, 322, 341n44, 357n10, 369n26, 370n29, 388n19, 389n22
Eliot’s ridicule of 79–83, 101–8, 133–42
and idolatry 339n36
Maritain on 242–5
and Maurras 62–3;
resurrection 311–14
Russell on 39–58
Stevens’ ridicule of 111–25, 129–30, 158–62
Time Between 146–9
Church, Barbara, 108, 111, 199, 226, 304–5, 308, 337n12
Church, Henry, 15, 177–8, 224, 236, 304, 309, 358–9n16, 389n22
civilization, 132, 144, 151, 155, 195–6, 243, 228, 259–60, 279, 314–16, 324, 368n21, 384n2
classicism, 4, 42, 46, 48–9, 60–1, 66, 205, 240, 243, 245 251, 287, 320, 326n2, 334n19, 361n25, 377n11, 376–7n14, 378n17
Cline, Catherine Ann, 338n32
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 44, 183, 246, 288, 360n22, 375n6, 385n10;
Biographia Litteraria 237–8, 320
Communism, vii, 13, 39, 45, 74, 130, 161, 193, 201–2, 217, 223, 228, 229, 235, 259, 279, 321–2, 361n21, 363n3, 370n30, 384n2
Comte, Auguste, 63, 170, 222, 368n21
consciousness, 15, 80, 87, 90, 95, 158, 164, 175, 182, 196, 212–13, 218, 229, 238–9, 247, 250, 258, 261, 265, 278, 299, 305, 317, 339n38, 348n16, 366n14
false consciousness 360n21;
conviction, 5, 12, 16, 24–26, 68, 94, 96, 102, 103, 118, 131, 138, 164, 170, 206, 221, 227, 228, 238, 253, 264, 282, 286, 297
Cooper-Willis, Irene, 143
Cowan, Laura, 385n11
Coyle, Beverly, 320
Culler, Jonathan, 326n5
culture, disintegration of, 46–7, 91, 132, 173, 195–6, 206, 253, 259, 279, 314–16, 320
and Race 378n15. See also Civilization
Dante Alighieri, 13, 14, 135–6, 151, 237, 252–3, 256–7, 264, 305, 374n4, 385n11, 387n17
Darwinism 39, 45, 47, 53, 67–8, 71–3, 155, 159, 163, 175, 181, 211, 254, 276, 336n26, 367n15, 383n33
death, 12, 55, 106, 112, 115–17, 119–22, 127, 133, 171, 187, 209, 292, 304–11, 387n15
death of God, 164, 219–22, 288, 313–14, 317–19
Decker, Henry, 234–5
deconstruction, 167, 178, 195, 259. See also Derrida
Dekkers, Odin, 52
Derrida, Jacques, 16, 166–8, 225, 248, 259, 318, 354n2, 355n3, 358n12. See also deconstruction
Dial, the, 21
Dial prize, 153
Dickens, Charles, 66
Dickinson, G. Lowes, 337n32
Divine Grace, 249, 298, 387n14
Divine Providence, 42, 163, 281
divinity, 57, 64–5, 113–14, 147, 177, 267, 288, 355n6, 388n20
Arnold on 346n6
belief in 69, consumption of 138
experience of 237
immanence of 164
indifference to suffering 123;
manifestations of 242, 252, 262, 281, 283, 285–6, 347n9
of Jesus Christ 136, 314, 342n46
submission to 93;
of Poetry 267–8
Donoghue, Denis, 17, 331n11, 369n23
Douglass, Paul, 71, 218, 337n28
Dreyfus Affair, 60
Eagleton, Terry, 351n31
Einstein, Albert, 254, 289, 337n29
élan vital. See Bergson
Eliot, T.S., reputation 3–4
and Anglican Faith, 7, 12, 15, 19, 25, 42, 46–51, 60–1, 62–3, 72–4, 77, 81–4, 86, 130, 150, 165–6, 200, 221, 238, 244, 247, 251–2, 260, 300, 323, 334n19, 340n41
anti-Semitism, 134–136, 349–50n21, 354n1
“Apollinax, Mr.” 98–101
asceticism 11, 106, 276, 291, 302–3, 312, 322, 359n18
acquaintance with Stevens 3
and Bergson 5, 51, 59, 67–72, 89, 169, 271–2, 276–7;
on Bergson’s “weakling mysticism” 72, 94, 181
Maritain on 242–3
meets Russell 76
Poetry: Ash-Wednesday ix, 151, 211, 280–91, 293–8, 290–303, 311, 321, 362n27, 84n3, 385n11, 387n16;
Choruses for the Rock 39–40, 130, 168, 252, 321, 367n16
“Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service” viii, 7, 48, 91, 97, 101, 103–8, 237, 252
Four Quartets 10, 106, 146, 166, 187–8, 211, 281, 336n26, 347n8, 361n25, (Burnt
“Gerontion” viii, 66, 127, 131–42, 144, 145–6, 150, 321
“Hippopotamus” 48, 91, 102, 103, 119, 237, 252, 345n5;
“The Hollow Men” 25, 154–5, 223, 291, 386n11, 321 “The Love Song of
J. Alfred Prufrock” 99, 140, 149, 189–90, 344n1
Murder in the Cathedral 57, 321
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats 48
“Sweeney Agonistes” 50;
“Sweeney Erect” 66, 131, 388n20
The Waste Land, viii, 5, 9–11, 25, 41, 48, 61, 66, 71, 91, 96–7, 99, 106–7, 114, 127, 131–2, 138, 142, 144–3, 159, 162, 187–8, 235, 237–8, 274–5, 281, 298, 311, 321, 325n1, 327n7, 327n8, 328n10, 328–9n16, 337n30, 348n15, 350n24, 350n25, 351n27, 351n28, 351n29, 352n35, 352–3n36, 353n38, 367n14
Prose works: After Strange Gods 196, 243–4, 255, 332n4, 349n20, 377n14, 378n15, 387n16
“Building up the Christian World” 312
Clark Lectures 95, 223, 252–4, 256–7, 260, 322
Criterion “Commentaries” 60, 61, 62, 74, 151, 173, 223, 330n6, 340n39, 371n30
“To Criticize the Critic” 18, 53, 64, 257, 321, 331n3
Eliot’s Dissertation 7, 71, 73–5, 78–9, 163, 179–80, 181–4, 187–9 192, 213, 215, 247, 321–2, 337n30, 338n33, 340n39, 341n45, 348n15, 361n25, 373–4n3;
For Lancelot Andrewes 48
“From Poe to Valéry” 257–9
“The Function of Criticism” 42
“The Humanism of Irving Babbitt” 170
“Idea of a Christian Society” 228
“Introduction to Paul Valéry” 382n30
“Literature of Politics” 63;
“Matthew Arnold” 274
“The Metaphysical Poets” 196, 270, 295
“The Modern Dilemma” 12, 322, 328n13, 328n14, 388n19
“Mysticism and Logic” 51, 55, 70, 96, 349n17
“Note on Poetry and Belief” 223, 238, 279, 298, 311
Notes Toward a Definition of Culture 314, 322
On Poetry and Poets 144
Review of Ethical Studies 64;
Review of the Pensées of Pascal 347n9;
“Religion without Humanism 170, 172, 245, 274, 374n4
“The Romantic Englishman, the Comic Spirit, and the Function of Criticism” 347n11
The Sacred Wood 54, 65, 66, 88, 216, 243, 333n10, 335n23
“Second Thoughts about Humanism” 3, 74–5, 130, 210, 364n7
Sermon Preached in Magdalene College Chapel 6, 50–1, 67, 77, 86
“Shakespeare and the Stoicism of Seneca” 6, 69, 91–2
“Thoughts after Lambeth” 96, 145
Turnbull Lectures 253–7
“Two Sources of Morality and Religion” 128, 268
The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism 107, 207, 245, 255, 258, 264, 274, 335n23, 365n11
Eliot, Vivien, 5–7, 19, 40–1, 50, 57–8, 66, 73, 76–9, 84, 88–90, 95–7, 101, 107, 134–6, 140, 145, 150, 334n14, 334n15, 335n24, 338n34, 343n50, 343n52, 344n54, 350n24, 351n30, 385n11
Empson, William, 8
evolution. See Darwinism
existentialism 10, 87, 166–7, 169, 173–5, 230, 355n4
Faber, Geoffrey, 53
Fascism, 201–2, 228–9, 234–5, 279–80, 319–21, 370n30. See also Mussolini
Feo, José Rodriguez, 178, 328n12
Fernandez, Ramon, viii, 89, 178, 192, 198, 199–211, 213, 217–26, 229–231, 286, 323, 362–3n2, 363n3, 363n4, 363n5, 364n7, 365n8, 365n10, 365–6n12, 365n13, 376n10, 381n25
Finite Centre. See Bradley Flaubert, Gustave, 66
Madame Bovary 278
Foerster, Norman, 170–2, 205, 324, 325n2, 364n7
Forman, Maurice Buxton, 44, 236, 324
Foucault, Michel, 167, 175, 355n3, 358n12
Frazer, Sir James, 138, 324, 335n23, 350n22 & n23
Frost, Robert, 9
Fuller, Benjamin Apthorpe Gould, 98–100, 344n2
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 166, 172, 355n4, 356–7n9
Gallup, Donald, 326n5, 332n6, 341n43, 342n48
Gardner, Helen, 131
Gardner, Mrs Jack, 89, 98–9, 345n2, 354n3
Gautier, Théophile, 102, 239, 345n5
Germany Eliot in, 19
postwar inflation, 235
Nazism, 228
Geyzel, Leonard van, 228
Gordon, Lyndall, 49–50, 51, 57, 70, 77, 79, 90, 99, 105, 107, 142, 237, 245, 334n17, 335–6n24, 341n44, 343n52, 344n1, 344n2, 347n9, 378n16
Gourmont, Rémy de, 335n23
Gray, Piers, 337n30, 350n22, 350n23, 359–60n19
Habib, Rafe, 354–5n3
Haigh-Wood, Vivien. See Eliot, Vivien Harding, Jason, 331n1, 334n17, 351n31, 354n1, 364n7, 376n10
Hartley, David, 284
Harvard, vii, 6–7, 14, 15, 33, 51, 58–9, 60, 70, 78–9, 98–100, 110, 165–6, 215, 326n4, 340n39, 342n47, 344n2, 345n3, 350n23, 355n3, 367n15, 373n3
Harvard Advocate 3, 9, 10, 13, 15–16, 32–3, 110–11, 128, 164, 215, 226, 260, 268, 308, 326n5, 352n33
Hegel, G.W.H., 56, 166, 203, 248, 318, 355n3, 355n4, 358n15
Heidegger, Martin, viii, 146, 148, 175–6, 189, 203, 212, 242, 274, 318, 338n3, 357n11, 358n13, 362n26, 375n5
and Eliot, 166–7, 169–70, 171–2, 179–82;
and Stevens 167–9, 170–1, 174, 176–9
Henderson, Alice Corbin, 10, 21, 23, 26, 113, 352–3n36
Heringman, Bernard, 203, 375n6, 385n10
Hines, Thomas J., 168–9
Hitler, Adolf, 227, 351n31, 373n1
Hulme, T.E., 42, 57, 130, 251, 340n41, 343n51
Humanism, vii–viii 340n40, 355n6, 364n7, 384n1
characterized, 46, 58, 76, 158, 170, 175, 221, 225–6, 274, 287, 318
Darwinism and 68
Eliot and 5, 6–7, 19, 87, 89–90, 101, 130, 140, 145, 170, 207, 237, 257, 325–6n2, 366n14
his Humanist reviews, 79–84;
Marxism and 319
Pure Poetry and 245;
Stevens and 5–6, 7–8, 17, 45, 108–9, 111–18, 119, 123–5, 130–1, 152–3, 157, 162, 199, 222, 224–5, 267, 286–7, 328n15, 369n23, 371n31. See also Arnold, Matthew
Babbitt, Irving;
Fernandez, Ramon
Foerster, Norman;
Maurras, Charles
More, Paul Elmer;
Murry, Middleton
Hulme, T.E.
Robertson, J.M.
Russell, Bertrand
Husserl, Edmund, 158, 166, 338n33, 339n37, 355n3
Huxley, Aldous, 53
Imagism, 20, 26–8, 32, 236, 245, 263–4, 381n27, 381n28
intuition, 217–21, 226, 229–30, 240–1, 251, 265, 368n19, 372n35, 376n8, 378n17
irrational, 17, 109, 174, 175, 193, 205, 221, 226, 234, 247, 260, 262–6, 319, 347n12, 357n10, 359n19
Jain, Manju, 166, 326n4, 354n2, 359n19
James, William, 70, 182, 188, 277, 359n19, 360n20, 361n25
Julius, Anthony, 354n1
Kant, Immanuel, 158, 180, 189, 203, 217, 237, 367n15, 375n5
Keats, John, 44, 116, 118, 236, 290
Keynes, John Maynard, 338n32
Killorin, Joseph, 3.
Kojecky, Roger, 334n17
Latimer, Ronald Lane, 22, 23, 31, 43, 200, 234–5, 263, 283, 336n1
Lee, Vernon. See Paget, Violet Leggett, B.J., 23, 29, 329n1, 330n5, 359n16, 360n22, 367n16
Leibniz, 59, 187–8, 214, 269, 366–7n14
Lensing, George S., 260
Levenson, Michael, 47
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien, 80, 181, 341n45, 359–60n19
Lewis, Wyndham, 4, 19, 142, 149, 218, 336n25, 344n1, 347n11
Little Review, 85, 101, 149, 150, 345n4
Lobb, Edward, 70, 335n22, 336n26
Lyons, Leonard, 13
MacLeod, Glen, 119, 234, 236, 260, 373n2
Maistre, Joseph de, 63
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 254, 255, 257, 261, 263, 265, 358n15, 381n25
Margolis, John D., 61, 64, 79, 325n2, 334n17, 334n19, 341n44
Maritain, Jacques, 49, 222, 239–44, 248–9, 255, 382n31
Martz, Louis, 153, 353n6, 385–6n11
Marx, Karl, German Ideology 182, 360n21. See also Communism
Mason, Steven T., 260.
Massis, Henri, 329–30n4
Matthews, T.S., 53
Maurras, Charles, 7, 48, 60–64, 66, 67, 69, 75, 77–8, 82, 89, 170, 279, 286, 320–1, 334n17, 334n19, 334n20, 335n21, 370–1n30
McCormick, John, 14, 311, 320n27
Melville, Joan, 389n22
Menand, Louis, 47–8
modern dilemma, vii, 4, 13, 15, 18, 40, 75, 77, 150, 152, 199, 227, 243, 298, 321
modernism, 20, 46–8, 149–50, 186, 260–1, 319
and postmodernism 167, 172, 178–9, 195, 197
monism, 70–1, 73, 74, 81, 179, 180–4, 214 337n31, 338n33, 339n37, 366n14
Monk, Ray, 73, 92, 338n34, 342n47, 344–5n2
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 51
Moore, George, 352n35
Moore, Marianne, viii, 9. 10, 11, 20–1, 233, 245
Moore on Stevens 43–4
More, Paul Elmer, 49, 61, 170, 248, 334n19, 355n6
Murray, Paul, 347n8
Murry, Middleton, 42, 45, 48, 89, 128–9, 205, 217–19, 222, 243–246, 248, 249, 251, 286, 364n7, 337n14
on Bremond 240–1
Mussolini, Benito, 31, 235, 337n1. See also Fascism
Munich Agreement, 227–8, 351n31
Naylor, Paul Kenneth, 169
Nazism, 39, 49, 131, 134, 166, 177, 201, 203, 228, 319, 321, 332n5, 363n4, 371n31, 378n15
Newman, John Henry Cardinal, 205–7, 221, 225, 313, 365n10, 365–6n12;
Nouvelle Revue Française, viii, 199, 290
obscurity in poetry, 8, 20, 43, 108, 133, 139, 191, 194, 196–7, 219, 239, 246, 261, 294, 352–3n36, 386n13
Ott, Hugo, 357n11
Paget, Violet, 143
Pater, Walter, 51, 52, 143, 332n8
Perl, Jeffrey, 46–7
Perugino, Pietro, 105, 346–7n7
phenomenology, 158, 166–70, 173–6, 182–3, 189, 202–3, 225, 338n33, 362n26
Poe, Edgar Allan, 239, 258–9, 263, 381n25
poetic communication, 30, 190–4, 196, 204, 212, 220, 229, 240, 246–8, 250–1, 254, 263–4, 347n8, 382n29
Poetry Magazine, 21, 99, 111, 119, 121, 124, 152, 155, 283, 292, 326n5, 344n1, 384n8
Pound, Ezra, 4, 9, 16, 19, 20, 32, 48, 50, 78, 84–5, 88–91, 104–5, 131–2, 135, 139, 142–4, 145, 149, 167, 179, 228, 236, 261–3, 279, 335n23, 335–6n24, 342n48, 344n1, 350n21, 350n25, 350n26, 351n29, 381n28, 387n17
Praz, Mario, 239–241, 248, 376n8, 376n10
Proust, Marcel, 134, 206–7, 336n25, 365n9, 365n10, 365n11
Rainey, Lawrence, 144, 149, 327n8, 350n24, 350n25.
Rashdall, Hastings, 80
Read, Herbert, 26, 53, 56, 63, 66, 67, 133–4, 165, 239, 240, 278, 329n4, 336n26, 375n7, 376n10
religious belief, 4–5, 7–8, 11–12, 17–18, 45, 47–9, 53–5, 60, 63, 65, 75, 78–84, 92–3, 98, 102–3, 112, 123, 127, 130, 135–6, 148, 162–4, 165–6, 170–221, 223, 227–8, 231, 236–9, 251–3, 256, 259–60, 279–82, 284, 293, 297–8, 316, 318–23, 326n2, 332n4, n5, 349n17, 350n21, 355n6, 370n29, 385n10, 386n11, 387n18, 390n28;
Donne and 91
Existentialism and 167–9
Mysticism and 210
Newman on 221
Stevens on 286–7
Renan, Ernest, 46, 82, 263, 314, 342n46, 390n28
Resurrection, 12, 118, 137, 146, 148, 281, 311–314, 357n27
Richards, I.A., 179, 238, 248–9, 251, 261, 298, 359n19, 375n6, 380n23, 387–8n18
Ricks, Christopher, 39, 259, 342n48, 384n3, 385n11, 387n16
Rimbaud, Arthur, 254, 261, 265
Robertson, J.M., 47, 52–54, 56–8, 59, 62, 65, 68, 73, 82, 170, 211, 286, 333n13, 342n46, 368n17
Rorty, Richard, 14, 91, 172, 179, 189, 252, 343n53, 355n3, 356–7n9, 362n26, 380n22, 383n33
Royce, Josiah, 166, 328n15, 336n26, 350n22 & n23, 354n2, 359–60n19
Russell, Bertrand, viii, 5–7, 14, 19, 45, 50–2, 64, 71, 73–4, 75–80, 84, 87–100, 99–101, 105, 107–111, 123, 126–7, 129–30, 132, 134–6, 140–3, 145, 152, 155–6, 159, 170, 172–3, 182, 206, 210, 215, 222–3, 233, 237, 247, 250, 252, 257, 277, 286, 318, 323, 325–6n2, 328–9n16, 335–6n24, 338n33, 339n37, 340–1n42, 342n47, 342n48, 343n49, 343n52, 344n54, 344–5n2, 347–8n13, 352n32, 367n14;
“Free Man’s Worship,” 6, 51, 54–60, 67–70, 73–4, 105, 110, 113
Mysticism and Logic, 70, 96, 359n17
Principles of Social Reconstruction, 79, 85, 91–6, 248;
Principia Mathematica 51, 56, 76–7, 276, 333n11, 340n39, 384n1
“Why I Am Not a Christian,” 56, 57, 322
Sassoon, Siegfried, 125–7, 349n19
Schiff, Sydney, 65–6, 131, 134, 142, 145, 335–6n25, 336n26, 338n35, 350n24
Schuchard, Ronald, 52–3, 57, 135, 253, 349n20
science, and art, 172–5, 195, 211–12, 227, 245, 247, 264, 288, 290, 319
and religion, 54, 59, 71, 80–1, 85, 128–9, 179, 347n9, 367n15
Sellin, Eric, 368n18
Seymour-Jones, Carole, 342n48, 343n50, 343n52, 344n54
Shaw, George Bernard, 368n17
Shelly, Percy Bysshe, 129, 178, 236, 238, 239, 254, 267–8, 288, 331n9, 358n15, 381n25, 383n33
Simons, Hi, 153, 154, 157–8, 173, 194, 222, 260, 263, 284, 286, 293, 303, 318, 326n5, 354n41, 381n27, 386n12
Souday, Paul, 239, 241, 246, 379n17
Sousa Santos, Maria Irene Ramalho de, 363n2
Sparrow, John, 260–1, 265, 380n23, 382n29
Spencer, Herbert, 53–54, 62, 67–8, 82, 336n26
Stead, William Force, 281, 290, 312
Stevens, Holly, 152, 283, 326n6, 327n9
Stevens, Wallace, on Eliot, 3, reputation 3–4
and Bergson 128, 205, 226, 265–8, 276–8, 370n27, 380–1n25; 383n33
and Humanism vii–viii, 5–6, 7–8, 156–8, 162–4, 198, 199–200, 203, 211, 222, 224–5, 27, 231, 286–8, 369n23
supreme fiction 7, 8, 129, 169, 238
Poetry: “Blue Guitar” 155–62, 171, 173–4, 273–6, 278, 280–1, 283–92, 298, 307, 370n27
“A Collect of Philosophy” 226, 290, 367n14
“Comedian as the Letter C” 153–4, 158, 161–2, 199, 325n1, 353n36, 353n39, 354n41:
“Emperor of Ice Cream” 293, 306, 309
Harmonium, 9, 10, 16, 21, 119, 121–5, 127, 152, 153, 194, 200, 234, 235, 261, 352n33, 352n36
“From the Journal of Crispin” 153
“Greenest Continent” 284, 330n6
“HighToned Christian Woman” 129, 313
Ideas of Order viii, 22–24, 28, 29, 43–4, 182, 199–200, 205, 231, 233, 236, 327n9, 62n1;
“Journal of Crispin” 153, 161, 281, 353n36, 353n39
“The Idea of Order at Key West” viii, 114, 180, 183, 190–3, 198–205, 219–24, 229–31, 270, 274, 288
“Lettres d’un Soldat” viii, 97, 119–25, 127, 146, 152, 371n31
“Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery” 209
“Monocle de mon Oncle” 152–3, 199
“Mozart 1935,” 37–8, 40, 331n8
“Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction,” 184, 225, 293, 317–18, 362n28
“Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb,” 171
“Old Philosopher in Rome” 14, 304, 308–11, 390n26
“Owl in the Sarcophagus” 304, 308, 389n22
“Sailing after Lunch” 22, 35–7, 39, 44
“Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile” 171
“Sunday Morning” viii, 7, 21, 48, 101–2, 109, 111–18, 122, 125, 146, 152, 190, 191, 199, 293, 303, 305, 312, 351n27, 374n5
“Variations on a Summer Day” 381n27.
Prose: Adagio 169, 316, 381n26
“Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet” 110, 128, 207, 212, 229, 375n6;
“Irrational Element in Poetry” 175, 205, 260–3
Opus Posthumous 112, 119, 120, 123, 153, 384n8
“Rubbings of Reality” 381n27
“Two or Three Ideas” 176, 227, 288, 372n32
Strachey, Lytton, 338n32
Strauss, Friedrich, 346n6
surrealism, 99, 210, 226, 233–4, 243, 260–2, 265–6, 356n8, 374n5, 382–3n31
symbolism, 20, 71, 151–2, 233, 244, 254–5, 258, 261, 381n28
Tannenbaum, Edward, 61
Tate, Allan, 276
Temple, William, 81–2
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 254, 331n9, 351n28
Thomas, Dylan, 9
transcendence, 12, 22, 36, 50, 58, 67, 73, 76, 90, 114, 129, 163–4, 169–70, 179, 184–5, 203, 208– 9, 213, 221–3, 225–6, 248, 286, 318, 320, 322
Trinity Review, 273
Underhill, Evelyn, 245, 378n16
Valéry, Paul, viii, 3, 24–5, 29, 42–3, 90–1, 205, 220, 234–6, 245, 257–9, 273, 277–8, 329–30n4, 330n5, 364n4, 368n18, 376n8, 381n26, 382n30
Van Geyzel, Leonard, 228
Van O’Connor, William, 3
Verdenal, Jean, 97–9, 152, 343n51
Verlaine, Paul, 254
Ward, Leo, 61–3
Weston, Jessie, 138, 144, 148, 351n28
Whibley, Charles, 53
Whitehead, Alfred North, 76, 276, 318, 333n11, 338n32, 384n1
Wiener, Norbert, 14, 58–9, 73, 78, 84, 172
Wolin, Richard, 358n14
Woolf, Leonard, 338n32
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 363n2
Wordsworth, William, 22, 129, 155, 192, 195, 214, 220, 238, 254, 265, 268, 284, 288, 291, 299, 365n11, 375n6, 378n16, 385n10
World War I, 10, 98, 118, 131, 140, 193;
casualties 327n8
Britain and France declare war on Germany, 186
the United States declares war on Germany and Austria, 88
World War II: Britain and France declare
war on Germany, 186
Stevens’ and
Eliot’s reaction 227–9
Yeats, William Butler, 37–9, 41, 50, 149, 167, 179, 185, 193, 208, 212, 274, 279, 281, 306, 319, 320, 331n9, 331n12, 374n4