Inventions of the March Hare

by Eliot, T. S.; Ricks, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780151002740
• ISBN10: 0151002746
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• 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This extraordinary trove of previously unpublished early works includes drafts of poems such as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" as well as ribald verse and other youthful curios.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	xi	(1)
The Manuscripts	xi	(7)
This Edition	xviii	(4)
Annotation	xxii	(8)
Editorial Conventions	xxx	(2)
Acknowledgements	xxxii	(2)
Abbreviations	xxxiv	(3)
Chronology of T.S.Eliot's Poems 1905-1920	xxxvii
INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE	1	(94)
Convictions (Curtain Raiser)	11	(2)
First Caprice in North Cambridge	13	(1)
Fourth Caprice in Montparnasse	14	(1)
Second Caprice in North Cambridge	15	(1)
Interlude in London	16	(1)
Opera	17	(1)
Silence	18	(1)
Mandarins	19	(4)
1 Stands there, complete	19	(1)
2 Two ladies of uncertain age	20	(1)
3 The eldest of the mandarins	21	(1)
4 Still one more thought for pen and ink!	22	(1)
Easter: Sensations of April	23	(3)
[I] The little negro girl who lives across the alley	23	(1)
II Daffodils	24	(2)
Goldfish (Essence of Summer Magazines)	26	(6)
I Always the August evenings come	26	(1)
II Embarquement pour Cythere	27	(1)
III On every sultry afternoon	28	(1)
IV Among the debris of the year	29	(3)
Suite Clownesque	32	(7)
I Across the painted colonnades	32	(2)
II Each with a skirt just down to the ancle	34	(1)
III If you're walking down the avenue	35	(3)
IV In the last contortions of the dance	38	(1)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock lines I-69	39	(4)
Prufrock's Pervigilium	43	(2)
The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock resumed	45	(3)
Entretien dans un parc	48	(3)
Interlude: in a Bar	51	(1)
Paysage Triste	52	(1)
Afternoon	53	(1)
Suppressed Complex	54	(2)
In the Department Store	56	(1)
The Little Passion: From "An Agony in the Garret"	57	(3)
[Another draft including these lines]	57	(3)
Introspection	60	(1)
While you were absent in the lavatory	61	(1)
The Burnt Dancer	62	(2)
First Debate between the Body and Soul	64	(4)
Bacchus and Ariadne: 2nd Debate between the Body and Soul	68	(2)
The smoke that gathers blue and sinks	70	(1)
He said: this universe is very clever	71	(1)
Inside the gloom	72	(3)
Oh little voices of the throats of men	75	(3)
The Love Song of St. Sebastian	78	(2)
Do I knows how I feel? Do I know what I think?	80	(2)
Hidden under the heron's wing	82	(1)
O lord, have patience	83	(1)
Airs of Palestine, No. 2	84	(2)
Petit Epitre	86	(2)
Tristan Corbiere	88	(2)
The Engine I-II	90	(3)
In silent corridors of death	93	(2)
TWO FACSIMILES	95	(6)
NOTES	101	(204)
APPENDIX A	305	(18)
Poems excised from the Notebook:	305	(18)
The Triumph of Bullshit	307	(4)
Ballade pour la grosse Lulu	311	(3)
Fragments: There was a jolly tinker came across the sea	314	(1)
[Columbo and Bolo verses]	315	(8)
APPENDIX B	323	(24)
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 (I9I7):	323	(24)
Humouresque (After J.Laforgue) [The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock: above, p.39]	325	(2)
Portrait of a Lady	327	(7)
Preludes	334	(4)
Rhapsody on a Windy Night	338	(5)
Morning at the Window	343	(1)
Mr. Apollinax	344	(2)
Conversation Galante	346	(1)
APPENDIX C	347	(38)
The text-as it first stood in the loose leaves-of the poems in Poems (1919), Ara Vos Prec (I920), and Poems (I920):	347	(38)
Gerontion	349	(4)
Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar	353	(2)
Sweeney Erect	355	(3)
A Cooking Egg	358	(3)
Melange Adultere de Tout	361	(1)
Lune de Miel	362	(1)
Dans le Restaurant	363	(2)
Whispers of Immortality	365	(12)
Mr.Eliot's Sunday Morning Service	377	(3)
Sweeney Among the Nightingales	380	(3)
Ode	383	(2)
APPENDIX D	385	(30)
Influence and influences	385	(30)
(i) TSE on the situation of poetry circa 1910	387	(2)
(ii) TSE on debts, including that to Dante	389	(2)
(iii) TSE on the borrowing of writers from themselves	391	(3)
(iv) TSE on the Elizabethans and Jacobeans	394	(1)
(v) TSE on the poets of the Nineties	394	(5)
(vi) TSE on Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature, and on France and the French Symbolists	399	(10)
(vii) TSE on Bergson and Bradley	409	(6)
Index to the Editorial Material	415	(12)
I General	415	(6)
II T.S.Eliot's Works	421	(6)
Index of Titles and First Lines	427