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Acton, Harold, 91 ‘As It Seemed to Us’, 14 ‘The Acts of John’, 86 ‘At the Grave of Henry James’, 75, 131, 375 The Adelphi, 338, 345 ‘Atlantis’, 50, 130 Agee, James, 215 ‘Aubade’, 348 Alexander, Michael, 260 ‘Auden and MacNeice: Their Last Will and Allen, Bill, 147 Testament’, 83, 241 Allen, John, 223, 225 ‘August for the people and their favourite Alston Moor, 15, 16 islands’, 41, 43, 212, 317 Alvarez, A. A., 365 ‘Balaam and his Ass’, 308 Amsterdam, 316 Berlin journals (unpublished), 24, 26, 317, Anders als die Andern, 103 355 Anglo-Saxon Reader (Sweet), 261 ‘Brothers and Others’, 272, 273 Ansen, Alan, 83, 91, 103, 121, 295n, 369, 378 ‘Bucolics’, 59, 64, 77, 178 Arendt, Hannah, 107, 126 ‘California’, 52 Aristotle, 181 ‘Case Histories’, 345 Arnold, Matthew, 49 ‘Christmas 1940’, 63 Ashbery, John, 124, 355 ‘Commentary’, 155, 157, 185 Astor, Lady Nancy, 146 ‘Consider this and in our time’, 2, 38, 153, Atlantic, 125 205–6 Auden, Constance, 69, 107 ‘Control of the passes was, he saw, the key’ Auden, George, 151, 259 (‘The Secret Agent’),16 , 20, 287, 361 Auden, John, 15, 45, 84, 86, 236 ‘Dame Kind’, 108 Auden’s writings ‘Deftly, admiral, cast your fly’, 334, 363 ‘1929’, 299, 362 ‘Dichtung und Wahrheit’, 183, 308, 363, 365 ‘A Bride in the ‘30s’, 376 ‘Dover’, 342–4 A Certain World, 19, 77, 87, 260, 329 ‘Easily, my dear,. . .’, 207–8, 213 A Choice of de la Mare’s Verse, 360 Elegy for Young Lovers, 250, 324 ‘A Communist to Others’, 39, 73, 209, 340, ‘Encomium Balnei’, 311 344, 345 ‘England: Six Unexpected Days’, 19 ‘A Healthy Spot’, 277 ‘Epilogue’ (Look, Stranger!), 43, 73 ‘A Household’, 113, 294 ‘Epilogue’ (The Orators), 238, 361 ‘A Literary Transference’, 291 Epistle to a Godson, 309 ‘A Summer Night’, 3, 44, 74, 79, 134, 180, ‘Epithalamion’, 308 196, 282 ‘Few and Simple’, 103 ‘A Walk After Dark’, 54 ‘First Things First’, 197–8 About the House, 86 ‘For the Time Being’, 75, 86, 102, 175, 286 ‘Academic Graffiti’, 286, 307, 308 For the Time Being, 268, 290 ‘Address for a Prize Day’, 26, 70 ‘From the very first coming down. . .’ ‘Amor Loci’, 19, 21, 22 (‘The Letter’), 16 Another Time, 29, 128, 154, 190, 342, 374 ‘Genius and Apostle’, 308 ‘As I Walked Out One Evening’, 52, 129, ‘Get there if you can. . .’, 37 207, 310, 363, 377 ‘Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno’, 62, 201, 308 391

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Auden’s writings (cont.) Look, Stranger!, 20, 43–4, 73, 95, 231, 317, ‘Happy New Year’, 287–8 318, 337 ‘Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys’, ‘Look, stranger, at this island now’, 230–3 44, 313 ‘Love by ambition’, 26, 278–9, 298 ‘Heavy Date’, 30 ‘Lullaby’, 8 ‘Here on the cropped grass of the narrow ‘Making, Knowing and Judging’, 161, 319 ridge. . .’, 73, 209 ‘Marginalia’, 376 ‘Homage to Clio’, 113, 115–16, 186–92 ‘Matthew Arnold’, 335 Homage to Clio, 183 ‘Memorial for the City’, 28, 59, 158, 176, ‘Horae Canonicae’, 59, 76, 176, 178, 200, 201 196–7, 199, 200, 203 ‘I Am Not a Camera’, 214, 312 ‘Miss Gee’, 26, 111 ‘I chose this lean country’, 280 ‘Moon Landing’, 108, 116 ‘I have a handsome profile’, 73 ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’, 48, 169, 339 ‘I Like It Hot’, 14 ‘Music Is International’, 371 ‘In Due Season’, 373 ‘My Dear One is mine as mirrors are lonely’, ‘In Memory of Ernst Toller’, 53 271, 366–7 ‘In Memory of Sigmund Freud’, 5, 6, 29, ‘Nature, Poetry and History’, 330, 334 129, 339 ‘New Year Letter’, 6, 19, 20–1, 28, 31, 32, 45, ‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’, 4–6, 29, 47–8, 47, 49, 51, 53, 69, 80–1, 87, 107, 112, 114, 49, 52, 55, 99, 123, 125, 129, 151, 157, 168, 128, 129, 131, 133, 151, 153, 157, 284, 294, 169, 263, 281–2 306, 308, 371 ‘In Praise of Limestone’, 21, 22, 59, 85, 87, New Year Letter, 31, 292 104–6, 107, 108, 113, 115, 198–9, 203, 302, ‘Nocturne’, 264 311, 332, 339 ‘Nones’, 200, 201, 203 ‘In Schrafft’s’, 111 Nones, 294 ‘In Search of Dracula’, 17 ‘Not in Baedeker’, 22 ‘In Sickness and in Health’, 102, 172–3 ‘Notes on Music and Opera’, 249, 250–1 ‘In Time of War’, 53, 99, 155–7, 267 ‘Now the leaves are falling fast’, 363 ‘In Transit’, 58 ‘Nursery Rhyme’, 364 ‘Introduction’ (to Shakespeare’s Sonnets), ‘O what is that sound. . .’, 337 74, 90 ‘O who can ever gaze his fill’ 42, 279 ‘Ischia’, 56, 60–2, 311, 363 ‘O who can ever praise enough’, 42 ‘It was Easter as I walked in the public ‘Ode to Gaea’, 112, 115, 363 gardens’. See ‘1929’ ‘Ode to Terminus’, 314 ‘Josef Weinheber’, 64–5 ‘On the Circuit’, 120, 202 ‘Journal of an Airman’, 71 On the Frontier, 42, 108, 208, 214, 220, Journey to a War, 44, 155, 185, 210, 214, 237, 221–2, 318, 350 240, 241, 242, 319, 321, 347, 352, 353, 356 On This Island, 118 ‘Lady Weeping at the Crossroads’, 107 ‘Our Hunting Fathers. . .’, 44, 81, 197 ‘Lakes’, 378 ‘Out on the lawn I lie in bed’, 3, 44, 74, 79, ‘Law, say the gardeners’, 129 180, 196, 282 ‘Lay your sleeping head, my love’, 284, ‘Paid on Both Sides’, 16, 19, 25, 107, 108–9, 324, 365 118, 312, 337, 339 ‘Lead’s the Best’, 15 Paul Bunyan, 30, 53, 247, 250, 348 ‘Leap Before You Look’, 102 ‘PaysageMoralisé’, 44, 313 ‘Letter’ (Christmas Day, 1941: to Chester ‘Petition’, 162–9 Kallman), 86, 112 ‘Phantasy and Reality in Poetry’, 21 ‘Letter to Lord Byron’, 13, 14, 18, 40, 43, 69, ‘Plains’, 108, 112, 373–4 71, 77, 210, 240, 241, 242, 288, 289, 290, ‘Pleasure Island’, 103–4, 105 291, 307 ‘Poetry and Film’, 210–11, 233–4 ‘Letter to R. H. S. Crossman, Esq.’, 264 ‘Poetry and Total War’, 150 ‘Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.’, 231 Poets of the English Language, 354 Letters from Iceland, 22, 42, 210, 212, ‘Port and Nuts with the Eliots’, 293 213, 237–8, 240, 241, 243, 244, ‘Precious Five’, 178 288, 352 ‘Preface to Oxford Poetry, 1926’, 292

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‘Preface to Oxford Poetry, 1927’, 375 ‘The Novelist’, 331, 373 ‘Prologue’ (Look, Stranger!), 43 ‘The Old Man’s Road’, 377 ‘Prologue’ (The Orators), 110, 302–3 The Orators, 35, 36, 39, 44, 70–1, 95, 110, 114, ‘Prologue at Sixty’, 6, 14 142, 152, 153, 264, 288, 297, 299–304, 316, ‘Psychology and Art To-day’, 160 317, 362 ‘Refugee Blues’, 5, 28, 157 The Oxford Book of Light Verse, 251, 354 ‘Rilke in English’, 309 ‘The Platonic Blow’, 122, 286 ‘River Profile’, 202–3 ‘The Poet and the City’, 133, 185, 357 ‘Rookhope, (Weardale, Summer 1922)’, 15, 19 The Poet’s Tongue, 2, 353 ‘Seaside’, 231 ‘The Prince’s Dog’, 272–3 Secondary Worlds, 295, 308, 329 ‘The Prolific and the Devourer’,152 ‘September 1, 1939’, 7, 8, 28, 29–30, 32, 99, ‘The Prophets’,20 , 21, 22, 102 100, 101–2, 103, 135–6, 149, 151, 158, 197, ‘The Public vs. the late Mr. William Butler 281, 284, 338 Yeats’, 6 ‘Sext’, 76 The Rake’s Progress, 121, 247, 250, 251, 253, ‘Shorts’, 2–3, 370 308, 356 ‘Sir, No Man’s Enemy. . .’ (‘Petition’), 6, 7, ‘The Sea and the Mirror’,198 , 247, 268–72, 26, 161–9 286 ‘Spain’; ‘Spain, 1937’, 4, 7, 49, 152, 153–4, 190, ‘The Shield of Achilles’,7 , 76, 113, 136–7, 197, 278, 313 282, 365, 378 ‘Squares and Oblongs’, 112 ‘The Sphinx’,53 ‘Sue’, 111 ‘The strings’ excitement, the applauding ‘T the Great’, 190 drum’, 25 ‘Talking to Myself’, 203–4 ‘The Truest Poetry Is the Most Feigning’ ‘Thank You, Fog’, 311–12 277, 314 ‘Thanksgiving for a Habitat’, 63–4, 311 ‘The Unknown Citizen’, 313 The Age of Anxiety, 33, 40, 53–4, 102, 157, 198, The Viking Book of Aphorisms, 191–2 247, 260, 262–3, 264 ‘The Virgin and the Dynamo’,371 ‘The American Scene’,50 ‘The Wanderer’, 37, 41, 261, 262, 264 The Ascent of F6, 41, 109–10, 152, 208, 318, 350 ‘The Witnesses’, 37 The Bassarids, 108 ‘The World of Opera’, 250, 308 ‘The Cave of Making’, 64, 65, 76, 131, 308–9 ‘Thomas Epilogizes’, 53, 258 ‘The Common Life’, 2 ‘Time Will say Nothing’, 102 ‘The Composer’, 363, 373 ‘To ask the hard question is simple’, 298, 313 The Dance of Death, 42–3, 217, 291, 312, 314 ‘To Goethe: A Complaint’, 309 ‘The Dark Valley’, 110 ‘To T. S. Eliot on His Sixtieth Birthday’, ‘The Dark Years’, 378 294–5 The Dog beneath the Skin, 17, 18, 40–1, 109, ‘Turn not towards me, lest I turn to you’, 209, 218, 223, 226, 312, 316, 318, 350 267 The Double Man, 28, 80, 356 ‘Two Bestiaries’, 188–9 The Dyer’s Hand, 8, 16, 132, 185, 248, 251, 267, ‘Under Which Lyre’, 8, 77, 119–20 268, 272, 308, 329, 333, 374 US (Auden’s poems to accompany which The Enchafèd Flood, 308, 329, 333, 361 film), 54–5 ‘The Enemies of a Bishop’, 318 ‘Vespers’, 176–7 ‘The Fall of Rome’, 58, 334, 364 ‘Victor’ 111 ‘The fruit in which your parents hid you, ‘Vocation and Society’, 292 boy’, 342 ‘Voltaire at Ferney’, 119 ‘The Group Movement and the Middle ‘We Too Had Known Golden Hours’, 76 Classes’, 39–40 ‘Whitman and Arnold’, 49 ‘The History of an Historian’,18 1–2 ‘Whitsunday in Kirchstetten’, 86–7 ‘The Horatians’, 63 ‘Who stands, the crux left of the ‘The Liberal Fascist’, 39 watershed’ (‘The Watershed’),15 , 18, ‘The Managers’, 77, 363, 364 19, 42, 72, 287 ‘The Model’, 111 ‘Woods’, 76 ‘The More Loving One’, 332, 365 ‘Words and the World’, 334–5

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Auden’s writings (cont.) Brentford, 17 ‘Work, Carnival and Prayer’ (unpublished), British Fascisti, 143–4 179–80 British Union of Fascists (BUF), 144 ‘Yeats as an Example’, 75, 278 Britten, Benjamin, 30, 73, 119, 228, 231, 235, ‘You’, 201–2 247, 248, 252, 306, 333, 348 ‘Young British Writers – on the Way Brodsky, Joseph, 65, 127 Up’, 330 Brooke, Jocelyn, 93 Brooke, Rupert, 289 Babes in the Wood, 224 Brussels, 84 Bachardy, Don, 321, 322, 323 Brut, 261 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 179 Bryant, Marsha, 7, 352, 356 Baldwin, Stanley, 36, 39, 43, 156 Bryn Mawr, 119 Barcelona, 24, 79, 152, 319 Buchman, Frank, 40 Barnard College, 119 Bucknell, Katherine, 8, 316 Barnes, Ernest, 82 Burrow, Trigant, 20 Barnes, William, 258 Busmen, 224 Barth, Karl, 81, 173 Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 100, 126, 240, Barzun, Jacques, 125, 339, 355 288, 307, 308, 309 The Battle of Maldon, 261, 264 Byron, Robert, 241 Baudrillard, Jean, 205 The Road to Oxiana, 237, 238 Bayley, John, 370, 376 BBC, 231, 338, 373 Cabaret, 324 Beaton, Cecil, 91 Calendar of the Year, 229, 231, 232 Beaverbrook, Lord, 71 California, 32, 248, 322, 323, 324 Bell, Clive, 372 Callan, Edward, 23 Benda, Julien, 131 Calvin, John, 172 Benn, Gottfried, 312 Cambridge Festival Theatre, 218 Bennett, Alan, 306, 333 Cambridge Left, 338 The Habit of Art, 306, 333 Cambridge University, 69, 90, 93, 251, 316 Bennington College, 119, 125 Campbell, Roy, 96–7 Beowulf, 257, 258, 261, 262 Camus, Albert, 29, 181, 191 Berlin, 24–8, 38, 73, 89 Canning, Richard, 322 Berlin, Isaiah, 59 Carpenter, Edward, 96 Berryman, John, 118 Carr, Helen, 241 Beside the Seaside, 229–30, 231, 233, 234, 235 Caserio, Robert, 102 Betjeman, John, 56, 82–3, 84, 95, 126, 241 Cashwell, 15, 16 Bevan, Aneurin, 146 Caudwell, Christopher, 240–1 Birmingham, 13, 24, 41, 82 Cavafy, C. P., 126 Bishop, Elizabeth, 118 Cavalcanti, Alberto, 215 Black Country, 18 Cecil, Lord David, 221 Blake, William, 81 Chamberlain, Neville, 224 Blast, 345 Chandler, Raymond, 134 Bloom, Harold, 309 Chaplin, Charley, 210 Bloomfield, Barry, 342 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 262, 359 Bogan, Louise, 57, 118 Chelsea, 89, 141 BollingenPrize, 123 Cherwell, 257, 258 Bolshevik Revolution, 145 Chesterton, G. K., 82, 84 The Book of Common Prayer, 87, 170 Chicago Sun, 150 Booth, Howard, 238 China, 44, 74, 152, 157, 242, 244, 319, 342, 348 Boothby, Bob, 146 Christ Church, 13, 70, 94 Bottomley, Gordon, 218, 219 Churchill, Winston, 41 Bowles, Paul, 30, 119 CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 339 Bozorth, Richard, 16 Clark, Dorothy, 141 Branson, Noreen, 238 Clark, Eleanor, 57 Brecht, Bertholt, 25, 224, 306, 312–14, 348, 349 Clark, Thekla, 107

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Claudel, Paul, 5, 151, 282 Eberhart, Richard, 119 Coal Face, 228, 229 Eckersley, Peter, 141 Cochrane, Charles Norris, 174, 175, 176, 181, Eden (river), 45 183–4, 185 Egypt, 152 Coldstream, William, 228 Eisenhower, President, 158 Colenso, Bishop, 162 Eisenstein, Sergei, 206, 211, 233 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 333, 372 Eliot, George, 288, 374 Collini, Stefan, 148 Eliot, T. S., 2, 5, 31, 33, 80, 82, 84, 93, 118, 123, Columbia University, 30, 120, 121 126, 195, 286–95, 297, 300, 317, 331, 334, Common Sense, 125 339, 340, 347, 372 Commonweal, 125 After Strange Gods, 287, 288, 289, 290, 293 The Communist Manifesto, 41 ‘Burnt Norton’, 5, 295 Connolly, Cyril, 16, 17, 320, 324 Little Gidding, 292 Constantine (Emperor), 81 Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, 293 Corn, Alfred, 361, 363, 366 The Waste Land, 53, 92, 206, 287, 288, 289, Coward, Noel, 92 290, 291, 292, 294, 295, 297, 314, 347 Cowley, Malcolm, 118, 338 Ellmann, Richard, 277, 278, 280 CPGB (Communist Party of Great Britain), Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 130 39, 142, 143 Empson, William, 377 Craft, Robert, 60 Encounter, 125, 332, 339 Creeley, Robert, 123 The English Hymnal, 84 Crisis, 224 Epstein, Jacob, 372 The Criterion, 16, 280, 289, 337, 339, 340, 341 Everett, Barbara, 1, 3, 128, 298, 369, 376 Cross Fell, 15 Cummings, E. E. (Eimi), 237, 239 Faber and Faber, 231, 233, 290, 317, 319, 339, Cunard, Nancy, 96 340, 342 Cunningham, Valentine, 207, 208–9 Farnan, Dorothy, 104 Fenton, James, 356, 362 Daily Express, 210 Fields, Gracie, 205 Daily Herald, 36, 338 Firbank, Ronald, 91, 92 Daily Telegraph, 218 Fire Island, 15, 30, 60, 103, 104, 105 Dante Alighieri, 261 Fisher, M. F. K., 126 Darlington, W. A., 218 Fitzgerald, Robert, 124 Darwin, Charles, 163 Fleming, Peter, 237, 242 Davenport-Hines, Richard, 30, 73, 253, 319 Brazilian Adventure 237 Davidson, Michael, 94 Fordham University, 330 Davis, George, 30, 320 Forio, 56, 60, 122 de la Mare, Walter, 359, 360 Forster, E. M., 26, 317, 321, 322, 323 Deane, Patrick, 129 Fourteenth-Century Verse and Prose (Sisam), Dearmer, Geoffrey, 222 261 Delos, 339 Franco, Francisco, 48, 242 Diaghilev, Sergei, 101 Fremantle, Anne, 170 Dickey, William, 124 Freud, Sigmund, 24, 25, 26, 58, 74, 81, 94, Disney, Walt, 40, 288 99, 105, 129, 148, 160–9, 181, 182, 183, Dizzy’s (bar), 29, 99–100 184, 191, 197, 238, 266, 273, 279, 302, Dodds, E. A., 80, 84, 107, 349 309, 345, 357 Dodds, E. R. 4, 20, 79, 80, 152, 349 Friedberg, Ann, 206 Don Giovanni, 126 Frost, Robert, 8, 266 Donne, John, 163, 166 Fuck You, A Magazine of the Arts, 122 Dovzhenko, Aleksandr, 206 Fuller, John, 25, 59, 64, 113, 115, 117, 230, 268, Downs School, 74 271–2, 297, 300, 301, 360, 361, 364, 365 The Dream of the Rood, 261 Fussell, Paul, 237, 240 Drew, Elizabeth, 59 Driberg, Tom, 289 Gallipoli, 151 Dryden, John, 247, 286 Garrett, John, 2, 353

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The General Strike, 42, 146 Hitler, Adolf, 35, 36, 40, 45, 48, 135, 136, 141, 152, Gibbon, Edward, 183 157, 171, 207, 224, 242 Gibson, Wilfrid, 17 Hodge, Alan, 89 Ginsberg, Allen, 104, 121, 122 Hodge, Herbert, 223 God’s Chillun, 212, 229 Hoffman, Daniel, 124 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 32, 63, 113, Hoffmann, Heinrich Struwelpeter( ), 306 130–1, 306, 307–9, 310, 329, 349 Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 249 Faust, 307–8 Hogarth, William, 248, 308 Italian Journey, 131, 308, 349 Hoggart, Richard, 364 Gollancz, Victor, 95 Hollander, John, 121, 124, 355 Gonne, Maud, 195 Hong Kong, 319 Gorer, Geoffrey, 77 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 163, 166, 230, 301–2 GPO Film Unit, 211, 228, 348 Horace, Quintus Flaccus, 63, 186 Grant, George Copeland, 229 Horizon, 339 Graves, Robert, 98, 126, 298, 301, 364 Horrabin, Frank, 141 Gray, Terence, 219 House and Garden, 125 Great War, 15, 38, 141, 145, 147, 148, 151, 153 Housman, A. E., 75, 271 Greene, Graham, 39, 142, 211, 215, 237, Howard, Brian, 91, 93 238, 239 Howard, Richard, 121, 122, 125 Journey without Maps, 237, 238 Huxley, Aldous, 141, 147, 246, 321 Greenberg, Noah, 349 Hyde Park, 143 Gregory, (Pope), 176 ‘The Hymn of Jesus’, 86 Gresham’s School, 70 Hynes, Samuel, 324 Grierson, John, 211, 212, 213, 228, 232–3, 236 Grierson, Marion, 229, 230, 233 Iceland, 14, 17, 21, 74, 236, 239, 240, 243, 259, Griffin, 339 260, 319, 342 Griffin, Merv, 126 India, 45, 158 Grigson, Geoffrey, 7, 21, 257, 258, 337, 338, 340, Ischia, 30, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 104, 105, 122, 341–2, 344, 372 123, 198 Groddeck, Georg, 26, 161 Isherwood, Christopher, 13, 16, 17, 19, 29, 47, 48, Group Theatre, 217, 219, 220, 223, 226, 318, 51, 53, 54, 75, 79, 90, 95, 97, 109, 129, 152, 348, 351 155, 157, 170, 171, 208, 209, 210, 211, 213, The Guardian, 7 214, 218, 220, 231, 236, 237, 241, 242, 244, Guild of Episcopal Studies, 84 267, 269, 297, 300, 304, 312, 314, 316–25, Guinness, Alec, 318 330, 342, 347, 348, 350–1, 353, 356 Goodbye to Berlin, 213, 321 Hacker, Marilyn, 121 Isle of Wight, 17 Hall, Radclyffe, 90 Hammarskjöld, Dag, 126, 349 Jaffé, Rhoda, 107 Hamsun, Knut, 116 James, Clive, 369 Hardy, Forsyth, 233 James, Henry, 33, 198, 252, 269, 374 Hardy, Thomas, 8, 17, 48, 153, 257, 289, 291, 359, The American Scene, 50, 126 360, 361, 369 Jarrell, Randall, 118, 128, 130, 332 Harper’s Bazaar, 125, 338 Jarrow Crusade, 143 Hart, Jeffrey, 240 Jenkins, Nicholas, 4, 18, 20, 129 Harvard, 119, 124 Jennings, Humphrey, 230, 233 Hayden, Robert, 120 Johns Hopkins, 119 Heard, Gerald, 321 Johnson, Wendell, 59 Hecht, Anthony, 122, 125 Jones, Ernest, 182 Heidegger, Martin, 46, 58 Joyce, James, 195, 211, 234, 376 Helensburgh, 35 Jung, C. G., 167, 323 Hemingway, Ernest, 19 Junior League Magazine, 125 Henze, Hans Werner, 250 Herbert, George, 286 Kafka, Franz, 33 The Highway, 41 Kaiser, Georg, 218, 219

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Kai-Shek, Chang, 214 Liddell Hart, Basil, 44 Kallman, Chester, 20, 22, 29, 30, 63, 86, 99, Lindsay, Jack, 225 102, 103, 104, 105, 108, 111–12, 113, 171, 246, The Listener, 231, 282 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 314, 321, 322, Lit, Ladislav, 56 323, 324, 348, 349, 356 Littlewood, Joan, 217 Kant, Immanuel, 308 London, 3, 16, 17, 18, 24, 89, 205, 212, 233, 247, Keats, John, 48, 164, 378 287, 314, 319, 320, 321, 322, 324 Kendall, Tim, 154 London Film Society, 210, 211, 233 Kenyon Review, 125 The Londoners, 212 Ker, W. P., 369 Lord Chamberlain, 220, 221 Kerouac, Jack, 121 Los Angeles, 321, 323 Kerr, Archibald Clark, 319 Lowell, Robert, 19 Kerr, Douglas, 353 Lucas, John, 238 Kierkegaard, Søren, 58, 80, 81, 99, 126, 171–2, Luther, Martin, 135, 172 173, 177, 179, 183, 184, 268, 292 King Edward VIII, 42 MacDonald, Ramsay, 36, 39, 141 King Horn, 261 MacNeice, Louis, 5, 14, 18, 45, 59, 63, 64, 65, King James Bible, 257 76, 93, 97, 206, 210, 237, 241, 243, 277, Kino Glaz, 213 279, 287, 290, 308, 319, 342, 348, 364 Kinsella, Thomas, 56 Mademoiselle, 125, 330 Kipling, Rudyard, 5, 151, 282, 286 Madge, Charles, 205 Kirchstetten, 54, 56, 59, 63–4, 65, 88, 178 The Magic Flute, 126, 250, 356 Kirsch, Arthur, 270 Malaparte, Curzio, 94 Koch, Kenneth, 124 Malinowski, Bronislaw, 30 Koestenbaum, Wayne, 347 Mann, Erika, 243, 318 Koestler, Arthur, 207 Mann, Klaus, 29 Kott, Jan, 274 Mann, Thomas, 308, 313 Kuomintang, 142 Maresca, Giovanni, 59 Marvell, Andrew, 168 Labouchère, Henry, 90–1 Marwick, Arthur, 205 Labour Party, 36, 38, 39, 141, 143, 144, 145 Marx, Karl, 45, 69, 71, 72, 81, 93, 94, 99, 143, Lake District, 13, 17 148, 181, 183, 207, 209, 241, 266, 272, 273, Lane, Homer, 25, 161, 298 308, 314 Lang, Fritz, 214 Mayer, Elizabeth, 31, 107, 308 Langland, John, 261, 262 McClatchy, J. D., 127 Larkin, Philip, 31, 126, 366 McCullers, Carson, 30, 119 Lawrence, D. H., 26, 39, 44, 74, 76, 81, 94, 147, Medley, Robert, 79, 92, 95 153, 164, 188, 195, 237, 239, 302–4 Melville, Herman, 33 Etruscan Places, 237 In Memoriam, 92 Fantasia of the Unconscious, 302–3 Mendelson, Edward, 9, 32, 59, 65, 79, 81, 82, Lawrence, Jon, 142 84, 116, 137, 155, 231, 240, 241, 246, 247, Lawrence, T. E., 44, 152, 153, 241 249, 250, 281, 287, 292, 293, 298, 303, 340, Layamon, 261 352, 354, 371, 372, 375 Layard, John, 25, 26, 27, 161, 238 Meredith, William, 121 Leavis, F. R., 36, 331, 337 Merrill, James, 60, 122, 126 Lee, Gypsy Rose, 30, 119 Merwin, W. S., 124, 355 Left Review, 222, 238 Michigan (University of), 119, 120, 125 Leger, Alexis (‘St. John Perse’), 59, 300 Mid-century, 339 Anabase, 300 Mirabeau, Comte de, 176 Lehman, John, 338 Mitchison, Naomi, 107 Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich, 36, 40, 44, 81, 94, 147, Mitford, Nancy, 91 148 The Modern Scot, 338 Lewis, C. S., 334 Montaigne, Michel de, 356 Lewis, Wyndham, 141, 146, 237, 239, 288, 290 Moore, Marianne, 186, 188, 189 Filibusters in Barbary, 237 Mosley, Cynthia, 146

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Mosley, Oswald, 36, 38, 39, 40, 141, 142, 144, On Guard for Spain, 225 145, 146, 147 O’Neill, Michael, 298 Mount Holyoke, 119 Orwell, George, 4, 95, 96, 150, 154, 181, 190, 334 Muldoon, Paul, 127 The Road to Wigan Pier, 95, 237 Murry, John Middleton, 338, 340, 345 Overy, Richard, 149 Mussolini, Benito, 44, 48, 123, 141, 144, 146, Owen, Wilfred, 150, 283, 377 224, 242 The Owl and the Nightingale, 261 Oxford, 13, 54, 80, 118 Nabokov, Nicholas, 59 Oxford Poetry, 258 Nagasaki (bombing of), 87 Oxford University, 13, 24, 27, 38, 39, 40, 42, Nation, 125, 330 53, 70, 79, 83, 90, 92, 94, 95, 170, 171, 221, National Unemployed Workers’ Movement 228, 237, 252, 257, 261, 289, 313, 316, 337, (NUWM), 143 356 Neddermeyer, Heinz, 95, 319 Negroes, 212, 228, 229, 232, 236 Paris, 80, 160 Nenthead, 15, 19 Partisan Review, 125, 177, 330, 338 Neue Sachlichkleit, 25, 213, 313 Patchen, Kenneth, 123 New Country, 341 Patripassianism, 170 New Masses, 338 Pears, Peter, 30 New Republic, 125, 175, 330, 338 Pearson, Norman Holmes, 354 New School for Social Research (NYC), Pelagianism, 172 119, 267 Penguin New Writing, 338, 339, 341 New Signatures, 341 Penn State, 119 New Statesman, 338 Percy, Lord, 146 New Statesman and Nation, 338 Petzold, Hedwig, 59 New Verse, 7, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341–2, 343, Piers Plowman, 262 344, 345 Pilcher, Velona, 219, 220 New Writing, 339 Piper, Myfanwy, 252 New York, 7, 13, 24, 28–33, 34, 51, 54, 58, 60, Plath, Sylvia, 120–1 80, 100, 110, 111, 119, 121–2, 124, 128, 129, Poe, Edgar Allan, 126 150, 151, 152, 201, 246, 248, 267, 274, 311, Poetry, 338 320, 321, 322, 323, 325, 330 Poland, 45, 136, 171 Manhattan, 29, 32, 33, 47, 79, 99, 100, Pope, Alexander, 128, 261, 289 101, 171 Porter, Peter, 297 New York Review of Books, 125 Portugal, 236, 318 New York Times, 339 Potter, Beatrix, 14 New Yorker, 293, 338 Pound, Ezra, 123, 288, 317, 339, 347 Newton, Esther, 104 Prabhavananda, Swami, 321 Nicoll, Maurice, 161, 167 Pride and Prejudice, 126 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 81, 85, 87, 99, 126, 174, 175, Priestley, J. B., 226, 237 176, 268 English Journey, 237 Niebuhr, Ursula, 83, 107 Proust, Marcel, 234 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 26, 45, 76, 146, 172, Pryce-Jones, Alan, 362 187–8, 189, 191, 192 Pudney, John, 94 Night Mail, 211, 228, 229, 230, 233, 235 Pudovkin, Vsevolod, 207, 233, 235 Nijinsky, Vaslav, 101 Pulitzer Prize, 33, 123, 157, 247 Nixon, Barbara, 223 Purcell, Henry, 247 Norse, Harold, 99, 100, 121 North Pennines, 14, 15, 18, 19, 22, 112, 272 Query, Patrick, 347 Novalis (pseudonym), 94, 202 Random House, 118, 319 The Observer, 220, 339 Rank, Otto, 160 O’Hara, Frank, 104, 124 Read, Herbert, 372 Olivet College, 119 Reader’s Digest, 125 Olson, Charles, 56, 123 Reith, Lord James, 338

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ReptonSchool, 69 Spanish Medical Aid Committee, 152 Revelstoke, Lord, 73 Specimens of early English (Morris and Skeat), 261 Rich, Adrienne, 124, 355 Spectator, 322 Richardson, Sheilah, 107 Spender, Stephen, 4, 93, 96, 97, 144, 154, 206, Rickword, Edgell, 342 287, 290, 298, 322, 323, 324, 339, 371, 374 Riding, Laura, 279, 298–9, 301 Spengler, Oswald, 181 Riefenstahl, Leni, 207 Spice, Evelyn, 229 Rilke, Rainer Maria, 94, 306, 309–12 Spinoza, Baruch, 30 DuinoElegies, 310 St. Augustine, 87, 177, 334 Rivers, W. H., 25, 30 St. Edmund’s School, 70 Roberts, Michael, 338, 341 St. Mark’s School, 119 Roethke, Theodore, 118 St. Paul, 172 Rome, 58, 82, 183 Stalin, Josef, 141, 143, 145, 154, 206, 242 Rookhope, 14, 16, 19–20 Stanislavsky, Constantin, 224 Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen, 174, 181, 185 Stark, Freya, 237 Rotha, Paul, 205, 211, 212, 231, 232 The Valleys of the Assassins, 237 Rothermere, Lord, 71, 144 Stein, Gertrude, 91, 301 Rougemont, Denis de, 181, 184–5 Stern, James, 157, 314 Rowse, A. L., 339 Stern, Tania, 107, 314 Royal Holloway College, 69 Stevens, Wallace, 87 Ruskin, John, 62 Stonewall Riots, 100, 101, 103, 105 Ruttmann, Walter, 212 Strachey, John, 144, 146–7 Strand Film Company, 230 Saintsbury, George, 369 Strauss, Richard, 246, 249, 251 Saki (H. H. Munro), 91 Stravinsky, Igor, 94, 126, 247–8, 250, 251, 252, Salute the Soviet Union, 225 308, 348, 369 San Antonio(Tx), 54 Sunday Times, 226 Saturday Review of Literature, 338 Sunday Worker, 38 Schiller, Gottfried von, 372 Swaledale, 21, 22 Schuyler, James, 122, 124, 295 Swift, Jonathan, 258 Schwartz, Delmore, 118 Symons, Julian, 89, 90, 338 Scribners, 126 Scrutiny, 36, 39, 337, 340, 341 Tandy, Geoffrey, 230 The Seafarer, 261 Tate, Allen, 342 Shakespeare, William, 74, 100, 126, 232, 257, Tennant, Stephen, 91 259, 262, 266–74, 286, 355, 378 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 61, 286, 288, 291 Henry IV, 272, 273 In Memoriam, 92 The Merchant of Venice, 272, 273 Thomas, Dylan, 120 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 274, 376 Thomas, Edward, 8, 289, 359 The Tempest, 173, 268–9, 272, 365, 378 Thoreau, Henry, 79 Shanghai, 24, 28, 320 Thought, 330 Shapiro, Karl, 118 Threlkeld, 13 Sharpe, Tony, 30, 134, 340 Thucydides, 99 Shaw, George Bernard, 142, 146 Tillich, Paul, 81, 99 Shenandoah, 125 Time, 19 Sidnell, Michael, 350 Time and Tide, 338 Simpson, Louis, 121 Tolkien, J. R. R., 116, 261, 263, 332, 334, 350 Simpson, Wallis, 43 The Lord of the Rings, 332, 334 Sitwell, Edith, Osbert, Sacheverell, 146, 288 Town and Country, 125 Slump (‘Great Depression’), 18, 141, 208, 209 Toynbee, Arnold, 181 Smith College, 49, 51, 119, 120 Trewin, J. C., 226 Smith, Stan, 29, 243, 244, 276, 282, 294, 337, 338 Trilling, Lionel, 125, 126, 339, 355 Southworth, James G., 95 Trotsky, Leon, 94, 345 Spanish Civil War, 4, 96, 148, 152, 153, 171, 190, Twentieth Century, 340, 344, 345 207, 264 Twentieth Century Verse, 338, 339

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U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey, 153, 157 Weston, Jessie, 33 Unity Theatre, 223–5 Wetzsteon, Rachel, 127 Upward, Edward, 316, 318 White, T. H., 89 Whitman, Walt, 31, 33, 48–9, 51, 52 Valéry, Paul, 343, 374 Leaves of Grass, 48 Valois, Ninette de, 219 Who Are the English, 225 Van Gogh, Vincent, 372 Whyte, James Hunnington, 338 Vernon, P. E., 251 Wiechert, Ernst, 339 Vertov, Dziga, 207, 211, 213, 231 Wieners, John, 104 Vienna, 63 Wigan, 18 Viertel, Berthold, 211 Wilbur, Richard, 126 Vietnam War, 158 Wilde, Oscar, 26, 89, 90–1, 92, 100, 370 Virginia (University), 120, 286 Wilkinson, Ellen, 143 Vogue, 111, 125, 330, 339, 348 Williams, Charles, 79, 80, 86, 171–2, 268, 334, 354 Wagner, Richard, 113, 246 Williams, William Carlos, 123 Walcott, Derek, 127 Wilson, Edmund, 183, 338 Wall Street Crash, 38, 91, 141, 146 Wolverhampton, 13 The Wanderer, 261 Wordsworth, William, 8, 13, 17, 112, 113, 161, 372 Warner, Rex, 26 Workers Theatre Movement (WTM), 222 Warrington, 18 Wright, Basil, 211, 228, 231, 233 Watt, Harry, 211, 229 Wright, James, 124, 355 Waugh, Evelyn, 91–2, 237, 243 Wright, Richard, 119 Waugh in Abyssinia, 237 The Way to the Sea, 211, 235 Yale Younger Poets Prize, 124 Webb, Beatrice and Sidney, 146 Yeats, W. B., 4–6, 47, 48, 75, 76, 100, 129, 151, Webster, John, 314, 349 162, 195, 203, 269, 276–84, 286, 290, 354, Weil, Kurt, 312, 314 365, 373 Weil, Simone, 85, 172 Yingling, Thomas, 100 Weimar Republic, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 35, 89, 101, York, 13 152, 213 Yorkshire, 259, 332 Wells, H. G., 146, 210 Yugoslavia, 142 Wells, Henry, 263 Went the Day Well?, 215 Zwingli, Ulrich, 308