T. S Eliot: Early Poems

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T. S Eliot Early Poems
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Eliot Links The Life

• Ronald Bush Biography wi links to pictures
• Eliots Life (von Arum Site)
• Shorter Timeline from Camden Site

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Eliot as a boy and with his Mother and sisters
in St. Louis
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Eliot Summer Home
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Eliot sophomore at Harvard, 1907, age 19

• Harvard Connections
• Bertrand Russell
• Irving Babbitt
• George Santayana
• Emily Hale
• Conrad Aiken

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1908 Discovering Laforgue

• Jules Laforgue
• Arthur Symons's The Symbolist Movement in
  Literature (1895)
• Symbolism

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Eliot in 1910 graduate of Harvard at 22

• Poems written in 1909-1910
• Humouresque
• Portrait of a Lady I, II
• Preludes I, II

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1910-11 Paris

• Influences in Paris
• Jean Verdenal
• Henri Bergson
• Rémy de Gourmont
• Charles Maurras
• Poems Written in 1911
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Preludes III, IV
• Portrait of Lady III
• La Figlia Che Piange

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1914 Marburg, WWI, Oxford

• Poems Written In 1914
• The Burnt Dancer
• Love Song of St. Sebastian
• Jean
  Verdenal ?

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Eliots London Connections

• Ezra Pound (1914) donts
• Wyndham Lewis (1914)
• HD (1914
• T.E. Hulme classic vs romantic
• Bertrand Russell (1914)
• Ottoline Morrell (1915)
• Augustus John
• Yeats
• Alfred North Whitehead
• Siegfried Sassoon
• Aldous Huxley
• John Middleton Murray and Katherine Mansfield
• D.H. Lawrence
• Bloomsberries (1916)
• Lytton Strachey, Carrington, Ralph Partridge
• Virginia and Vanessa Stephens, Roger Fry, Clive
  Bell, Duncan Grant

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1915 Marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood

• Poems Written in 1915
• July -- Rhapsody on a Windy Night
• Sept -- Boston Evening Transcript
• Aunt Helen
• Cousin Nancy,
• Nov. -- Hysteria

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1916 Viviens Affair wi Russell

• Married June 26, 1915
• Late July 1915 TSE goes back to America for 6
  weeks
• Viv and TSE move into Russells flat
• TSEworking as school master home only on
  weekends
• Poems Written in 1916
• Sept -- Conversation Galante
• Mr. Appolinax (abt. BR)
• Morning at the Window

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1918-21 Beginning a Friendship with the Wolves

• 1918 Nov. 15, -- TSE visits Wolves for 1st time
  (VW is impressed with his intelligence but
  regrets that he admires Pound, Lewis and Joyce)
• 1919 Jan 22--VW begins setting up TSE's Poems at
  Hogarth Press
• 1920 Feb 13--VW Attends evening party at
  Ottoline Morrell's with Eliots as well as
  Huxleys, E.M. Forster etc.
• Sep 18-9--TSE visits at Rodmell
• Sep 26 --VW Diary entry about how she is
  intimidated by TSE
• Dec 1--TSE and G.L. Dickinson to dinner
• 1921 Mar 13--TSE to dinner with Woolves. VW
  wonders if he will "become Tom" thinksTSE
  doesn't admire her writing

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1919

• Poems published by Hogarth Press
• Tradition and the Individual Talent

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Eliot Links Works

• Links on Eliots Early Poetry
• Link to Eliot Reports

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