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T. S. Eliot is referred to as TSE throughout.

Abbey, Edward Austin

Abbott, Jacob

Ackroyd, Peter

Action Française, L'

Adams, Henry

Adams, John

Adams, John Quincy

Aiken, Conrad: at Harvard with TSE; TSE confides in over sexual anxiety; reads ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'; recognises TSE's poetic genius; advises TSE to visit Ezra Pound in London; interest in Freudian ideas; TSE's disdain for; cancels holiday with TSE; reviews
The Sacred Wood
; recommends publisher for
The Waste Land
; poetry of

Alain-Fournier, Henri

Aldington, Richard: assistant editor at the
Egoist
magazine; serves in the Great War; admires TSE's editorial skills; unimpressed by TSE's beard; war experience; on TSE; sends flowers to Vivien; TSE's friendship with; TSE shows
The Waste Land
to; and Pound's ‘Bel Esprit' scheme; on James Joyce's
Ulysses
; breach with TSE

Amory, Roger

Anesaki, Masaharu

Armstrong, Martin

Arnison, George Wright

Arnold, Edwin,
The Light of Asia

Arnold, Edwin Lester

Arnold, Matthew

Art and Letters
(journal)

Athenaeum
(journal)

Augustine, St

Babbitt, Irving

Bagnall, Effie

Baker, George Pierce

Bakewell, Charles Montague

Balfour, Arthur

Ballets Russes

Barrie, J. M.

Baudelaire, Charles

Beach, Sylvia

Beerbohm, Max

Beethoven, Ludwig van

‘Bel Esprit' (Ezra Pound's subscription scheme)

Bell, Clive

Bell, Vanessa

Belvalkar, Shripad Krishna

Bennett, Arnold

Bergson, Henri; TSE attends his lectures in Paris; TSE becomes sceptical about; TSE lectures on

Betjeman, John

Blake, William

Blanshard, Percy

Blast
(journal)

Blood, Charlotte (TSE's grandmother)

Blood, Thomas Heywood

Bloomsbury group

Blow, Susan E.

Boas, George

Bodenheim, Max

Bomberg, David

Boni and Liveright (publishers)

Bosham, West Sussex

Bosschère, Jean de

Boston, Massachusetts

Boynton, Percy H.

Bradley, F. H.;
Appearance and Reality
;
Essays on Truth and Reality
; TSE's PhD thesis on

Brett, Dorothy

Briggs, LeBaron Russell

Brokmeyer, Henry C.

Brooks, Van Wyck

Brooks, Winthrop Sprague, ‘Nick'

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Browning, Robert

Buckle, Charles

Buddha's Fire Sermon

Buddhism

Bulmer, John Legge

Burns, Robert

Butler-Thwing, Francis Wendell

Byron, George Gordon, Lord

Cahiers de la Quinzaine, Les
(journal)

Cambridge, England

Cambridge, Massachusetts; Social Dramatic Club

Cannan, Gilbert

Carrington, Dora

Carroll, Caroline J.

Carroll, Lewis

Catholic Anthology
(1915)

Cawein, Madison

Channing, William Ellery

Chapbook
(journal)

Chase, George Henry

Child, Harrison Bird

Churchill, Winston (American writer)

Claudel, Paul

Clutton Brock, Arthur

Cobb, Richard

Cobden-Sanderson, Richard

Cocteau, Jean

Colefax, Lady Sibyl

Collingwood, R. G.

Common Sense
(newspaper)

Connolly, James B.

Conrad, Joseph

Copeland, Charles Townsend

Cornford, F. M.

Costello, Harry Todd

Criterion
(journal): proposal for; TSE commits to being editor; TSE solicits work for; given name by Vivien Eliot; TSE's anxiety over; first issue

Croonenbergh, Charles

Culpin, Karl

Cummings, E. E.

Cunard, Lady Nancy

Curd, Charles P.

Cushing, Colonel Charles

Dada (art movement)

Dale, Alan

Dana, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D'Annunzio, Gabriele

Dante

Davidson, John

Davidson, Thomas

Davis, Hubert Henry

Dawes, Samuel

Day, Reverend John William

de la Mare, Walter

Debussy, Claude,
Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien

Delacroix, Henri

Delsarte, François

Demos, Raphael

Deussen, Paul Jakob

Dial
(journal); TSE article ‘The Possibility of a Poetic Drama'; TSE article ‘The Second-Order Mind'; TSE article ‘Ulysses, Order, and Myth'; TSE wins the magazine's $2,000 prize; TSE's ‘London Letters' in; TSE's negotiations to publish
The Waste Land
in

Dickens, Charles

Diels, Hermann Alexander

Dismorr, Jessica

Dodds, Eric

Dolmetsch, Arnold

Donne, John

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Dowden, Edward

Dozier, Lewis

Drinkwater, John

Dryden, John

Duchamp, Marcel

Dudley, Dorothy

Dudley, Helen

Duncan, Isadora

Dunne, Annie (TSE's nanny)

Durkheim, Émile

East Coker, Somerset

Egoist
(journal); TSE becomes assistant editor of; Pound publishes ‘Drunken Helots and Mr Eliot' in; plan to publish
Joyce's
Ulysses
in serial form; special issue memorialising Henry James; publishes ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent'; demise of

Egoist Press

Elgar, Edward

Eliot, Abigail Adams (TSE's grandmother)

Eliot, Abigail (TSE's cousin)

Eliot, Ada (TSE's sister)

Eliot, Andrew (ancestor)

Eliot, Reverend Andrew (ancestor)

Eliot, Charles William (Harvard President)

Eliot, Charlotte Champe, ‘Lottie' (TSE's mother): death of daughter Theodora; birth of TSE; interests and education; family background; poetry of; religious inclinations; and TSE's childhood; writes biography of William Greenleaf Eliot; anxiety for TSE's health and social life; and St Louis World's Fair (1904); on TSE's education; reaction to TSE's marriage; wish for TSE to have an academic career; visit to England

Eliot, Charlotte (TSE's sister)

Eliot, Christopher Rhodes (TSE's uncle)

Eliot, Etta (TSE's aunt)

Eliot, Frederick (TSE's cousin)

Eliot, George

Eliot, Henry (TSE's brother): and TSE's childhood; takes family photographs; and
Student Life
magazine; taste for Tin Pan Alley; on family's conservatism; remembers TSE reading Milton as a child; at Harvard; partial deafness due to childhood illness; announces TSE's marriage to the St Louis press; sympathetic to TSE over marriage; TSE's correspondence with; financial support for TSE; sends family photographs to TSE; visit to England; on Garsington; on Vivien's ill-health; congratulates TSE on
The Waste Land

Eliot, Henry Ware, ‘Hal' (TSE's father): family background; literary and artistic background; brick company; pride in his ancestry; house in Gloucester, Massachusetts; interest in natural science; attitude to sex education; and St Louis World's Fair (1904); and TSE's education; Ezra Pound writes to regarding TSE's career; reaction to TSE's marriage; concern for TSE after marriage; dislike of TSE's move to England; financial support of TSE; helps TSE try to enrol for military service; dislike of Vivien; pride in TSE; death

Eliot, Margaret (TSE's sister)

Eliot, Marion (TSE's sister)

Eliot, Martha (TSE's cousin)

Eliot, Mary (TSE's aunt)

Eliot, Samuel A.

Eliot, Theodora (TSE's niece):
see
Smith, Theodora Eliot

Eliot, Thomas Lamb (TSE's uncle)

Eliot, Thomas Stearns:

Childhood and education:
birth and immediate family; family background; family home; plays in the girls' school playground; relationships with girls; relationships with other children; experiences cyclone in St Louis; attends Mrs Lockwood's school; summers in Gloucester, Massachusetts; sense of American history; early literary tastes; attends Smith Academy; ‘becomes' T. S. Eliot; produces
Fireside
(first surviving literary work); earliest surviving verses; interest in actresses; attends Jacob Mahler's Dancing Academy; writes
George Washington, A Life
; visits Camp Maple Hill, Quebec; published in the
Smith Academy Record
; attends Milton Academy, Massachusetts; arrival at Harvard; academic study at Harvard; poor academic performance at Harvard; takes up rowing; Harvard friendships; membership of the Digamma/Fox Club at Harvard; ‘Columbo' and ‘Bolo' poems; body-building at Harvard; published in the
Harvard Advocate
; parodied in the
Harvard Lampoon
; reads Arthur Symons'
The Symbolist Movement in Literature
; first reads Laforgue; interest in French literature at Harvard; is invited to join the Signet Society; election to the Stylus club; influence of Irving Babbitt; hospitalised with scarlet fever; recites graduation ‘Ode'; graduates from Harvard; sails round Mount Desert Rock, Gloucester, Massachusetts; brief visit to London (
1910
); year abroad in Paris (
1910
–
11
); encounters Cubism and Futurism in Paris; friendship with Jean Verdenal; travels in France (
1910
–
11
); visit to London (
1911
); completes ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' in Munich (
1911
); visits Italy (
1911
); returns to Harvard for doctoral study; interest in Buddhism and Eastern thought; studies Sanskrit, Pali and Indic Philology at Harvard; attends lectures by Masaharu Anesaki at Harvard; attends lectures by Rabindranath Tagore at Harvard; paper to the Philosophy Club on Walter Lippmann's
A Preface to Politics
; President of the Harvard Philosophical Club; appointed Sheldon Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard; paper on the science of religion (
1913
); meets Bertrand Russell at Harvard; acts with the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club; relationship with Emily Hale

Residence in England
: curtailed visit to Germany (
1914
); arrives in England from Germany (
1914
); meets Bertrand Russell in London; meets Ezra Pound in London; goes up to Merton College, Oxford; spends Christmas,
1914
in London; visits Swanage, Dorset (
1914
); fails to meet F. H. Bradley at Merton College; studies philosophy with Harold Joachim; takes up rowing at Oxford; doctoral thesis on F. H. Bradley; reads ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' to the ‘Coterie' (Oxford poetry-reading group); gives talk to ‘Heretics' in Cambridge, England; meets Wyndham Lewis; first publication of his poems in a book (
Catholic Anthology,
1915
); meets Vivien Haigh-Wood; resigns from teaching post at Harvard; marries Vivien Haigh-Wood; uses the name Stearns-Eliot; literary and artistic introductions by Ezra Pound; adjusts to married life; takes on teaching post at Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe; visits America after his marriage; ‘honeymoon' in Eastbourne; dependency on Bertrand Russell; teaching post at Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe; mixes with the Bloomsbury set; teaching post at Highgate Junior School; meets Lady Ottoline Morrell; cancels visit to America for his doctoral presentation; moves into flat in Crawford Mansions; visits Garsington; publishes articles in the
Monist
; review writing; rents house in Bosham, West Sussex; takes on evening lecturing posts; publishes
Prufrock and Other Observations
; difficulties in his relationship with Vivien; rents Senhurst Farm jointly with Bertrand Russell; friendship with Ezra Pound; relationship with Mary Hutchinson; takes position at Lloyds Bank, London; becomes assistant editor at the
Egoist
; writes poetry in French; writes booklet on Ezra Pound's poetry; rents house in Marlow jointly with Bertrand Russell; tries to enrol for military service; visits Bertrand Russell in prison; edits Pound's poetry; relationship with Vivien; meets Virginia Woolf; death of father; physical collapse and begins writing ‘Gerontion'; owns a dog; publishes
Poems
with the Hogarth Press (
1919
); holiday in France with Ezra Pound (
1919
); grows a beard;
Ara Vos Prec
published by John Rodker (
1920
); subscribes to the London Library; visits Paris with Vivien (
1920
); rivalry with Ezra Pound; visits France with Wyndham Lewis; meets James Joyce in Paris; moves to flat in Clarence Gate Gardens; relationship with Virginia Woolf; uses pen-name ‘Gus Krutzsch'; begins composition of
The Waste Land
; visit of his mother, brother and sister to England; sees Stravinsky's
Rite of Spring
; approached to be editor of
Criterion
; sees a nerve specialist; takes break in Margate for his health; writes rough draft of Part III of
The Waste Land
in Margate; travels to Lausanne for treatment with Dr Vittoz; continues composition of
The Waste Land
in Lausanne; completes
The Waste Land
and dedicates it to Ezra Pound; moves to Wigmore Street; reported to use violet powder on his skin; takes break in Royal Tunbridge Wells for his health; treated to vacation in Lugano, Switzerland by father-in-law; accused of profiting unfairly from ‘Bel Esprit' scheme; awarded
Dial
's $
2
,
000
prize; reads
The Waste Land
to Virginia Woolf