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Mahler’s Dancing Academy; writes George Washington, A Life ; visits Camp Maple Hill, Quebec; published in the Smith Academy Record ; attends Milton Academy, Massachusetts; arrival at Harvard; academic study at Harvard; poor academic performance at Harvard; takes up rowing; Harvard friendships; membership of the Digamma/Fox Club at Harvard; ‘Columbo’ and ‘Bolo’ poems; body-building at Harvard; published in the Harvard Advocate ; parodied in the Harvard Lampoon ; reads Arthur Symons’ The Symbolist Movement in Literature ; first reads Laforgue; interest in French literature at Harvard; is invited to join the Signet Society; election to the Stylus club; influence of Irving Babbitt; hospitalised with scarlet fever; recites graduation ‘Ode’; graduates from Harvard; sails round Mount Desert Rock, Gloucester, Massachusetts; brief visit to London ( 1910 ); year abroad in Paris ( 1910 – 11 ); encounters Cubism and Futurism in Paris; friendship with Jean Verdenal; travels in France ( 1910 – 11 ); visit to London ( 1911 ); completes ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ in Munich ( 1911 ); visits Italy ( 1911 ); returns to Harvard for doctoral study; interest in Buddhism and Eastern thought; studies Sanskrit, Pali and Indic Philology at Harvard; attends lectures by Masaharu Anesaki at Harvard; attends lectures by Rabindranath Tagore at Harvard; paper to the Philosophy Club on Walter Lippmann’s A Preface to Politics ; President of the Harvard Philosophical Club; appointed Sheldon Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard; paper on the science of religion ( 1913 ); meets Bertrand Russell at Harvard; acts with the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club; relationship with Emily Hale
    Residence in England : curtailed visit to Germany ( 1914 ); arrives in England from Germany ( 1914 ); meets Bertrand Russell in London; meets Ezra Pound in London; goes up to Merton College, Oxford; spends Christmas, 1914 in London; visits Swanage, Dorset ( 1914 ); fails to meet F. H. Bradley at Merton College; studies philosophy with Harold Joachim; takes up rowing at Oxford; doctoral thesis on F. H. Bradley; reads ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ to the ‘Coterie’ (Oxford poetry-reading group); gives talk to ‘Heretics’ in Cambridge, England; meets Wyndham Lewis; first publication of his poems in a book ( Catholic Anthology, 1915 ); meets Vivien Haigh-Wood; resigns from teaching post at Harvard; marries Vivien Haigh-Wood; uses the name Stearns-Eliot; literary and artistic introductions by Ezra Pound; adjusts to married life; takes on teaching post at Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe; visits America after his marriage; ‘honeymoon’ in Eastbourne; dependency on Bertrand Russell; teaching post at Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe; mixes with the Bloomsbury set; teaching post at Highgate Junior School; meets Lady Ottoline Morrell; cancels visit to America for his doctoral presentation; moves into flat in Crawford Mansions; visits Garsington; publishes articles in the Monist ; review writing; rents house in Bosham, West Sussex; takes on evening lecturing posts; publishes Prufrock and Other Observations ; difficulties in his relationship with Vivien; rents Senhurst Farm jointly with Bertrand Russell; friendship with Ezra Pound; relationship with Mary Hutchinson; takes position at Lloyds Bank, London; becomes assistant editor at the Egoist ; writes poetry in French; writes booklet on Ezra Pound’s poetry; rents house in Marlow jointly with Bertrand Russell; tries to enrol for military service; visits Bertrand Russell in prison; edits Pound’s poetry; relationship with Vivien; meets Virginia Woolf; death of father; physical collapse and begins writing ‘Gerontion’; owns a dog; publishes Poems with the Hogarth Press ( 1919 ); holiday in France with Ezra Pound ( 1919 ); grows a beard; Ara Vos Prec published by John Rodker ( 1920 ); subscribes to the London