T.S. Eliot Flashcards
Where did Eliot spend a year studying between 1910-1911?
At the Sorbonne
What was Eliot’s full name?
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Who did Eliot become friendly with while at the Sorbonne?
Jean Verdenal a French medical student and fellow lodger
What happened to Jean Verdenal do during the Great War?
He became a medical officer in the army in 1914 and was killed in the Dardanelles in 1915
Where did Eliot study in England in July 1914?
At Oxford University
While still at what school did Eliot produce The Love song of Alfred Prufrock?
Harvard University
What was Eliot’s doctoral dissertation?
Philosopher F.H. Bradley’s Appearance and Reality
Where did Eliot travel before beginning school at Oxford University?
Marburg Germany
Why did Eliot go to Marburg, Germany and why did he leave?
For a summer course of reading philosophy but he was forced to leave hastily because of the outbreak of war in August
Where did Eliot’s The Love Sung of J. Alfred Prufrock appear in June 1915?
Harriet Monroe’s Poetry
What else appeared in Poetry when Eliot’s Love Song of Alfred Prufrock appeared in June 1915?
Memorials to Rupert Brooke who had just died that April
What did the Love Song of Alfred Prufrock offer insights into?
The hopelessness and despair of a civilization in the midst of war
What is the first line of modern English poetry?
Like a patient etherized upon a table
What work did Pound inject The Waste Land with?
Lines from Dante’s Inferno
What happens in the untranslated Italian lines from Dante’s Inferno in The Waste Land?
Guido da Montefeltro, a traitor lodged in the 8th circle of Hell agrees to tell Dante his story because he believes that a living man like Dante could never return to broadcast his shame
What are the shocking juxtopositions in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley?
The evening sky and the etherized patient, streeets that follow like arguments
What is the connection to Hamlet in The Waste Land?
Hamlet is unable to make his move, growing old amidst the meaningless siren songs of mermaids and paradoxically awakening to the sound of human voices
When did Eliot meet Vivien Haigh-Wood?
April 1915
When did Eliot marry Vivien Haigh-Wood?
June 1915
What literary circle did Eliot gain entree into in England?
Lady Ottoline Morrell’s literary salon
Who was included in addition to Eliot inside Lady Ottoline Morrell’s literary salon?
The Sitwell siblings, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Aldous Huxley and Wyndham Lewis
What magazine beside Poetry was Eliot’s works included in 1915?
Pound’s Catholic Anthology
When did Eliot finish his doctoral dissertation?
In 1916
Why was Eliot unable to return to the State’s to defend his doctorate dissertation?
Because of the difficulties of traveling across the Atlantic during war time
What bank did Eliot begin to work for in 1917?
Lloyds Bank
What magazines did Eliot continue to publish in while working at Lloyds Bank?
Little Review and the Egoist
When and what published Eliot’s Poems, a collection of seven of Eliot’s earl poems?
May 1919 in Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press
Who did Pound travel with to Southern France in 1919?
T.S. Eliot
What influential critical essay did Eliot publish in the last issues of the Egoist?
Tradition and the Individual Talent
When did The Waste Land begin to formulate in Eliot’s imagination?
In 1920 after meeting with James Joyce
When did Eliot suffer from exhaustion and convalesce in Margate and then in Switzerland?
1921
When did Eliot give Pound the copy of The Waste Land?
While in Paris in January 1922
Where was Eliot’s The Waste Land published?
The fall and winter of 1922/23 in Criterion, the American journal Dial and in book form with notes
When did Eliot leave Lloyds Bank?
In 1925
What did Eliot join after leaving Lloyd’s Bank?
Faber and Gwyer
What was the first collective volume of poetry published by Faber and Gwyer by Eliot?
Poems, 1909-1925
What was Bel Esprit according to Hemingway?
fund to help Eliot leave Lloyds Bank
Who worked tirelessly to support Pound’s release from St. Elizabeth’s?
T.S. Eliot
Pound worked as publisher and editor for what organization up until the end of his life?
Faber and Faber
What nation did Eliot become a citizen of?
England
What church did Eliot become a member of?
The Church of England
What two masterpieces were examples of Eliot’s shift towards more religious themes?
Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets
When were Pound’s Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets published as a complete volume?
October 1943
What work of Eliot’s was a collection of conservative political positions in critical essas?
After Strange Gods: A pRimer of Modern Heresy 1934
What was wrong with Eliot’s wife?
She was mentally ill
When did Eliot separate from his wife?
In 1933
Who did Eliot marryi n 1957?
Valerie Fletcher
How many years younger was Eliot’s second wife then him?
More than 30 years
When did T.S. Eliot die?
In January 1965
When was Eliot awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
In December 1948
What essay of Eliot’s offered a scientific example of a catalyst but was actually his explanation of his own understanding of the poetic impulse to produce the Waste Land?
Tradition and the Individual Talent 1919
What theory of Eliot’s motivated his creation of multiple voices?
Impersonality
Who did Eliot believe spoke through him?
The voices of other poets
What was the early title of the Wasteland?
He Do the Police in Different VVoices
What was the title He Do the Police in Different Voices an allusion to?
Dickens’s Out Mutual Friend in which the character Sloppy had great skill in reading crime news from the papers
What is the importance of He in the title He Do the Police in Different Voices?
It suggests that there is a single speaker who acts as a ventriloquist?
What other voices were added to The Wasteland?
Ezra Pound’s and Vivien Eliot’s
Who argued that no other masterpiece has been so heavily marked as the Wasteland?
Hugh Kenner
When did Valerie Eliot publish a facsimile edition of The Waste Land?
In 1971
What was Pound’s edit on the first page?
Slash through 54 lines on the very first page in which a speaker and friend go drinking, go to whore houses and almost get picked up by the cops
What is the first line of the Waste Land?
April is the cruelest month
What character in The Waste Land was from Munich?
Marie
Who was the real Marie from The Waste Land?
Countess Larisch who Eliot met in either 1911 or 1914
What are the five sections of The Waste Land?
The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, What the Thunder Said
How many lines long is the last section of The Burial of the Dead?
17 lines in free verse
What poet did Eliot translate to begin the last section of The Burial of the Dead?
French poet Charles Bauderlaire
From what two works of Baudelaire does Eliot borrow in The Waste Land?
Les Sept Viellards and Flowers of Evil
What city does Baudelaire describe in his poems?
Paris
What city does Pound describe in The Waste Land?
London
Where do the crowds flow in The Waste Land?
Over London Bridge and down King William Street
What Cantos from Dante’s Inferno does Eliot use with Baudelaire’s undead city?
Cantos III and IV
What intersection in the Waste Land leads to the financial heart of London?
King Williams Street and Lombard Street
Wha battle does the speaker in The Waste Land refer to?
The Battle of Mylae between the Romans and the Carthaginians in 260 BC
What does the planted corpse in Stetson’s garden represent?
The unburied dead left to rot in the trenches after a bombardment
What book of John Webste’s does Eliot refer to in The Waste Land?
The White Devil
How many scenes are in A Game of Chess?
Two that are composed as inverse reflections
What is the first scene in A Game of Chess?
A dialogue between a man and woman who is on the edge of a mental breakdown while the man can only offer cold comfort
Who is the women in A Game of Chess in The Waste Land patterned on?
Vivien who would be institutionalized in 1938
What word did Vivien write on the side of the typescript of A Game of Chess scene one?
Wonderful
What work of Shakespeare’s does Eliot quote in A Game of Chess?
The Tempest
What does Eliot’s speaker in A Game of Chess transform Shaespeare into?
The syncopation of jazz
What does the word demobbed mean?
Demobilized from service
Who is Lil’s husband in The Waste Land?
Albert
Why did Lil loose her teeth an get an aged appearance?
Because she took abortion pills after having five kids and nearly dying giving birth to George
What is the Hurry Up Please, Its Time a reference to in The Waste Land?
The pub proprietor’s insistence that it is closing time and an echo of Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress which insists upon the enjoyment of physical pleasure before it is too late
What poem of Shakespeare’s does Marvell’s seduction and the pub patrons leaving contrast to?
Hamlet with Ophelia’s last words before she commits suicide
When were Pound’s Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets published as a complete volume?
October 1943
What work of Eliot’s was a collection of conservative political positions in critical essas?
After Strange Gods: A pRimer of Modern Heresy 1934
What was wrong with Eliot’s wife?
She was mentally ill
When did Eliot separate from his wife?
In 1933
Who did Eliot marryi n 1957?
Valerie Fletcher
How many years younger was Eliot’s second wife then him?
More than 30 years
When did T.S. Eliot die?
In January 1965
When was Eliot awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
In December 1948
What essay of Eliot’s offered a scientific example of a catalyst but was actually his explanation of his own understanding of the poetic impulse to produce the Waste Land?
Tradition and the Individual Talent 1919
What theory of Eliot’s motivated his creation of multiple voices?
Impersonality
Who did Eliot believe spoke through him?
The voices of other poets
What was the early title of the Wasteland?
He Do the Police in Different VVoices
What was the title He Do the Police in Different Voices an allusion to?
Dickens’s Out Mutual Friend in which the character Sloppy had great skill in reading crime news from the papers
What is the importance of He in the title He Do the Police in Different Voices?
It suggests that there is a single speaker who acts as a ventriloquist?
What other voices were added to The Wasteland?
Ezra Pound’s and Vivien Eliot’s
Who argued that no other masterpiece has been so heavily marked as the Wasteland?
Hugh Kenner
When did Valerie Eliot publish a facsimile edition of The Waste Land?
In 1971
What was Pound’s edit on the first page?
Slash through 54 lines on the very first page in which a speaker and friend go drinking, go to whore houses and almost get picked up by the cops
What is the first line of the Waste Land?
April is the cruelest month
What character in The Waste Land was from Munich?
Marie
Who was the real Marie from The Waste Land?
Countess Larisch who Eliot met in either 1911 or 1914
What are the five sections of The Waste Land?
The Burial of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death by Water, What the Thunder Said
How many lines long is the last section of The Burial of the Dead?
17 lines in free verse
What poet did Eliot translate to begin the last section of The Burial of the Dead?
French poet Charles Bauderlaire
From what two works of Baudelaire does Eliot borrow in The Waste Land?
Les Sept Viellards and Flowers of Evil
What city does Baudelaire describe in his poems?
Paris
What city does Pound describe in The Waste Land?
London
Where do the crowds flow in The Waste Land?
Over London Bridge and down King William Street
What Cantos from Dante’s Inferno does Eliot use with Baudelaire’s undead city?
Cantos III and IV
What intersection in the Waste Land leads to the financial heart of London?
King Williams Street and Lombard Street
Wha battle does the speaker in The Waste Land refer to?
The Battle of Mylae between the Romans and the Carthaginians in 260 BC
What does the planted corpse in Stetson’s garden represent?
The unburied dead left to rot in the trenches after a bombardment
What book of John Webste’s does Eliot refer to in The Waste Land?
The White Devil
How many scenes are in A Game of Chess?
Two that are composed as inverse reflections
What is the first scene in A Game of Chess?
A dialogue between a man and woman who is on the edge of a mental breakdown while the man can only offer cold comfort
Who is the women in A Game of Chess in The Waste Land patterned on?
Vivien who would be institutionalized in 1938
What word did Vivien write on the side of the typescript of A Game of Chess scene one?
Wonderful
What work of Shakespeare’s does Eliot quote in A Game of Chess?
The Tempest
What does Eliot’s speaker in A Game of Chess transform Shaespeare into?
The syncopation of jazz
What does the word demobbed mean?
Demobilized from service
Who is Lil’s husband in The Waste Land?
Albert
Why did Lil loose her teeth an get an aged appearance?
Because she took abortion pills after having five kids and nearly dying giving birth to George
What is the Hurry Up Please, Its Time a reference to in The Waste Land?
The pub proprietor’s insistence that it is closing time and an echo of Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress which insists upon the enjoyment of physical pleasure before it is too late
What poem of Shakespeare’s does Marvell’s seduction and the pub patrons leaving contrast to?
Hamlet with Ophelia’s last words before she commits suicide
