Inventions of the March Hare

by Eliot, T. S.

• ISBN13: 9780156005876
• ISBN10: 0156005875
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios. "Perhaps the most significant event in Eliot scholarship in the past twenty-five years" (New York Times Book Review). Edited by Christopher Ricks.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Chronology of T. S. Eliot's Poems 1905-1920
Inventions of the March Hare	p. 1
Convictions (Curtain Raiser)	p. 11
First Caprice in North Cambridge	p. 13
Fourth Caprice in Montparnasse	p. 14
Second Caprice in North Cambridge	p. 15
Interlude in London	p. 16
Opera	p. 17
Silence	p. 18
Mandarins: 1 Stands there, complete	p. 19
Mandarins: 2 Two ladies of uncertain age	p. 20
Mandarins: 3 The eldest of the mandarins	p. 21
Mandarins: 4 Still one more thought for pen and ink!	p. 22
Easter: Sensations of April: [I] The little negro girl who lives across the alley	p. 23
Easter: Sensations of April: II Daffodils	p. 24
Goldfish (Essence of Summer Magazines): I Always the August evenings come	p. 26
Goldfish (Essence of Summer Magazines): II Embarquement pour Cythere	p. 27
Goldfish (Essence of Summer Magazines): III On every sultry afternoon	p. 28
Goldfish (Essence of Summer Magazines): IV Among the debris of the year	p. 29
Suite Clownesque: I Across the painted colonnades	p. 32
Suite Clownesque: II Each with a skirt just down to the ancle	p. 34
Suite Clownesque: III If you're walking down the avenue	p. 35
Suite Clownesque: IV In the last contortions of the dance	p. 38
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock lines 1-69	p. 39
Prufrock's Pervigilium	p. 43
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock resumed	p. 45
Entretien dans un parc	p. 48
Interlude: in a Bar	p. 51
Paysage Triste	p. 52
Afternoon	p. 53
Suppressed Complex	p. 54
In the Department Store	p. 56
The Little Passion: From "An Agony in the Garret"	p. 57
Introspection	p. 60
While you were absent in the lavatory	p. 61
The Burnt Dancer	p. 62
First Debate between the Body and Soul	p. 64
Bacchus and Ariadne: 2nd Debate between the Body and Soul	p. 68
The smoke that gathers blue and sinks	p. 70
He said: this universe is very clever	p. 71
Inside the gloom	p. 72
Oh little voices of the throats of men	p. 75
The Love Song of St. Sebastian	p. 78
Do I know how I feel? Do I know what I think?	p. 80
Hidden under the heron's wing	p. 82
O lord, have patience	p. 83
Airs of Palestine, No.2	p. 84
Petit Epitre	p. 86
Tristan Corbiere	p. 88
The Engine I-II	p. 90
In silent corridors of death	p. 93
Two Facsimiles	p. 95
Notes	p. 101
Poems excised from the Notebook	p. 305
The Triumph of Bullshit	p. 307
Ballade pour la grosse Lulu	p. 311
Fragments: There was a jolly tinker came across the sea	p. 314
[Columbo and Bolo verses]	p. 315
The text - as it first stood in the Notebook or the loose leaves - of Humouresque (published 1910) and of the poems (here in the order of the volume) in Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)	p. 323
Humouresque (After J. Laforgue)	p. 325
Preludes	p. 334
Rhapsody on a Windy Night	p. 338
Morning at the Window	p. 343
Mr. Apollinax	p. 344
Conversation Galante	p. 346
The text - as it first stood in the loose leaves - of the poems in Poems (1919), Ara Vos Prec (1920), and Poems (1920)	p. 347
Gerontion	p. 349
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar	p. 353
Sweeney Erect	p. 355
A Cooking Egg	p. 358
Melange Adultere de Tout	p. 361
Lune de Miel	p. 362
Dans le Restaurant	p. 363
Whispers of Immortality	p. 365
Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service	p. 377
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	p. 380
Ode	p. 383
Influence and influences	p. 385
TSE on the situation of poetry circa 1910	p. 387
TSE on debts, including that to Dante	p. 389
TSE on the borrowing of writers from themselves	p. 391
TSE on the Elizabethans and Jacobeans	p. 394
TSE on the poets of the Nineties	p. 394
TSE on Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature, and on France and the French Symbolists	p. 399
TSE on Bergson and Bradley	p. 409
Index to the Editorial Material	p. 415
Index of Titles and First Lines	p. 427
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