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Library; visits Paris with Vivien ( 1920 ); rivalry with Ezra Pound; visits France with Wyndham Lewis; meets James Joyce in Paris; moves to flat in Clarence Gate Gardens; relationship with Virginia Woolf; uses pen-name ‘Gus Krutzsch’; begins composition of The Waste Land ; visit of his mother, brother and sister to England; sees Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring ; approached to be editor of Criterion ; sees a nerve specialist; takes break in Margate for his health; writes rough draft of Part III of The Waste Land in Margate; travels to Lausanne for treatment with Dr Vittoz; continues composition of The Waste Land in Lausanne; completes The Waste Land and dedicates it to Ezra Pound; moves to Wigmore Street; reported to use violet powder on his skin; takes break in Royal Tunbridge Wells for his health; treated to vacation in Lugano, Switzerland by father-in-law; accused of profiting unfairly from ‘Bel Esprit’ scheme; awarded Dial ’s $ 2 , 000 prize; reads The Waste Land to Virginia Woolf
    Character and characteristics : anxiety about masculinity; anxiety about sexuality; appearance; childhood anxieties about the body; critical judgements of others; editorial astuteness; interest in natural science; interest in ragtime and music hall; language proficiency; love of childish jokes; musical tastes; nostalgia for America; plays chess; punctiliousness; self-consciousness about ears; sexual gaucheness; sexuality; shyness; speaking voice/speech
    Health : assessed for military service; breathing and nasal problems; headaches and sciatica; hernia and wearing of a truss; links between illness and creativity; lung problems; minor ailments; mother’s anxiety for; ‘nervous sexual attacks’; nervous strain; neuralgia; ‘neurasthenic’; operation on his nose; rheumatism; scarlet fever; suffers from ‘cerebral anaemia’ in Munich; treatment by Dr Vittoz for nervous problems; weight loss
    Literary influences : Aiken, Conrad; Andrewes, Lancelot; Aristophanes; Arthurian myths and the Grail quest; Augustine, St; Baudelaire, Charles; Bhagavad Gita ; Browning, Robert; Burns, Robert; Byron, George Gordon, Lord; Carroll, Lewis; Cocteau, Jean; Conan Doyle, Arthur; Conrad, Joseph; Dante; Davidson, John; Dickens, Charles; Donne, John; Dryden, John; Fitzgerald, Edward; French Symbolists; Gautier, Théophile; Goldsmith, Oliver; Gourmont, Rémy de; Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Heraclitus; The Ingoldsby Legends ; James, Henry; Jonson, Ben; Joyce, James; Keats, John; Khayyám, Omar; Kipling, Rudyard; Kyd, Thomas; La Rochefoucauld, François de; Laforgue, Jules; Lear, Edward; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Lowell, James Russell; Mallarmé, Stéphane; Malory, Sir Thomas; Marvell, Andrew; Maurras, Charles; Milton, John; Nerval, Gérard de; Ovid; Petronius; Philippe, Charles-Louis; Poe, Edgar Allan; Pope, Alexander; Pound, Ezra; Reid, Mayne; Renaissance drama; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Shakespeare, William; Shelley, Percy Bysshe; Spenser, Edmund; Stendhal; Stevenson, Robert Louis; Stoker, Bram; Swinburne, Algernon Charles; Tennyson, Alfred, Lord; Upanishads ; Verlaine, Paul; Virgil; Wagner, Richard; Webster, John; Xenophon
    Religious influences : early reading about non-Christian religion; fascination with martyrdom; interest in Buddhism and Eastern thought; interest in Catholicism; interest in mysticism; Puritan family influence; religious anxiety; and scepticism; Unitarian background
    Views and comments : on academic life; admiration for Ezra Pound’s poetry; anti-Semitism; on being American in England; on Bertrand Russell; on Browning; on the composition of poetry; on Cubism; on difficulty in poetry; on the English; on English literary life; on English women; francophilia; on Henry James; on his early commitment to poetry; on his literary success; on his marriage; on his New England ancestry; on his responsibility towards Vivien; on his sense of displacement; on the influence of his grandfather; on