T.S. Eliot Flashcards
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Where did Eliot spend a year studying between 1910-1911?
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At the Sorbonne
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What was Eliot’s full name?
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Who did Eliot become friendly with while at the Sorbonne?
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Jean Verdenal a French medical student and fellow lodger
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What happened to Jean Verdenal do during the Great War?
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He became a medical officer in the army in 1914 and was killed in the Dardanelles in 1915
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Where did Eliot study in England in July 1914?
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At Oxford University
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While still at what school did Eliot produce The Love song of Alfred Prufrock?
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Harvard University
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What was Eliot’s doctoral dissertation?
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Philosopher F.H. Bradley’s Appearance and Reality
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Where did Eliot travel before beginning school at Oxford University?
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Marburg Germany
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Why did Eliot go to Marburg, Germany and why did he leave?
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For a summer course of reading philosophy but he was forced to leave hastily because of the outbreak of war in August
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Where did Eliot’s The Love Sung of J. Alfred Prufrock appear in June 1915?
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Harriet Monroe’s Poetry
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What else appeared in Poetry when Eliot’s Love Song of Alfred Prufrock appeared in June 1915?
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Memorials to Rupert Brooke who had just died that April
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What did the Love Song of Alfred Prufrock offer insights into?
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The hopelessness and despair of a civilization in the midst of war
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What is the first line of modern English poetry?
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Like a patient etherized upon a table
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What work did Pound inject The Waste Land with?
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Lines from Dante’s Inferno
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What happens in the untranslated Italian lines from Dante’s Inferno in The Waste Land?
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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
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What are the shocking juxtopositions in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley?
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The evening sky and the etherized patient, streeets that follow like arguments
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What is the connection to Hamlet in The Waste Land?
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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
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When did Eliot meet Vivien Haigh-Wood?
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April 1915
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When did Eliot marry Vivien Haigh-Wood?
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June 1915
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What literary circle did Eliot gain entree into in England?
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Lady Ottoline Morrell’s literary salon
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Who was included in addition to Eliot inside Lady Ottoline Morrell’s literary salon?
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The Sitwell siblings, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Aldous Huxley and Wyndham Lewis
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What magazine beside Poetry was Eliot’s works included in 1915?
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Pound’s Catholic Anthology
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When did Eliot finish his doctoral dissertation?
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In 1916
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Why was Eliot unable to return to the State’s to defend his doctorate dissertation?
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Because of the difficulties of traveling across the Atlantic during war time
24
What bank did Eliot begin to work for in 1917?
Lloyds Bank
25
What magazines did Eliot continue to publish in while working at Lloyds Bank?
Little Review and the Egoist
26
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
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Who did Pound travel with to Southern France in 1919?
T.S. Eliot
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What influential critical essay did Eliot publish in the last issues of the Egoist?
Tradition and the Individual Talent
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When did The Waste Land begin to formulate in Eliot's imagination?
In 1920 after meeting with James Joyce
30
When did Eliot suffer from exhaustion and convalesce in Margate and then in Switzerland?
1921
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When did Eliot give Pound the copy of The Waste Land?
While in Paris in January 1922
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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
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When did Eliot leave Lloyds Bank?
In 1925
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What did Eliot join after leaving Lloyd's Bank?
Faber and Gwyer
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What was the first collective volume of poetry published by Faber and Gwyer by Eliot?
Poems, 1909-1925
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What was Bel Esprit according to Hemingway?
fund to help Eliot leave Lloyds Bank
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Who worked tirelessly to support Pound's release from St. Elizabeth's?
T.S. Eliot
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Pound worked as publisher and editor for what organization up until the end of his life?
Faber and Faber
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What nation did Eliot become a citizen of?
England
40
What church did Eliot become a member of?
The Church of England
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What two masterpieces were examples of Eliot's shift towards more religious themes?
Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets
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When were Pound's Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets published as a complete volume?
October 1943
43
What work of Eliot's was a collection of conservative political positions in critical essas?
After Strange Gods: A pRimer of Modern Heresy 1934
44
What was wrong with Eliot's wife?
She was mentally ill
45
When did Eliot separate from his wife?
In 1933
46
Who did Eliot marryi n 1957?
Valerie Fletcher
47
How many years younger was Eliot's second wife then him?
More than 30 years
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When did T.S. Eliot die?
In January 1965
49
When was Eliot awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
In December 1948
50
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
51
What theory of Eliot's motivated his creation of multiple voices?
Impersonality
52
Who did Eliot believe spoke through him?
The voices of other poets
53
What was the early title of the Wasteland?
He Do the Police in Different VVoices
54
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
55
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?
56
What other voices were added to The Wasteland?
Ezra Pound's and Vivien Eliot's
57
Who argued that no other masterpiece has been so heavily marked as the Wasteland?
Hugh Kenner
58
When did Valerie Eliot publish a facsimile edition of The Waste Land?
In 1971
59
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
60
What is the first line of the Waste Land?
April is the cruelest month
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What character in The Waste Land was from Munich?
Marie
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Who was the real Marie from The Waste Land?
Countess Larisch who Eliot met in either 1911 or 1914
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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
64
How many lines long is the last section of The Burial of the Dead?
17 lines in free verse
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What poet did Eliot translate to begin the last section of The Burial of the Dead?
French poet Charles Bauderlaire
66
From what two works of Baudelaire does Eliot borrow in The Waste Land?
Les Sept Viellards and Flowers of Evil
67
What city does Baudelaire describe in his poems?
Paris
68
What city does Pound describe in The Waste Land?
London
69
Where do the crowds flow in The Waste Land?
Over London Bridge and down King William Street
70
What Cantos from Dante's Inferno does Eliot use with Baudelaire's undead city?
Cantos III and IV
71
What intersection in the Waste Land leads to the financial heart of London?
King Williams Street and Lombard Street
72
Wha battle does the speaker in The Waste Land refer to?
The Battle of Mylae between the Romans and the Carthaginians in 260 BC
73
What does the planted corpse in Stetson's garden represent?
The unburied dead left to rot in the trenches after a bombardment
74
What book of John Webste's does Eliot refer to in The Waste Land?
The White Devil
75
How many scenes are in A Game of Chess?
Two that are composed as inverse reflections
76
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
77
Who is the women in A Game of Chess in The Waste Land patterned on?
Vivien who would be institutionalized in 1938
78
What word did Vivien write on the side of the typescript of A Game of Chess scene one?
Wonderful
79
What work of Shakespeare's does Eliot quote in A Game of Chess?
The Tempest
80
What does Eliot's speaker in A Game of Chess transform Shaespeare into?
The syncopation of jazz
81
What does the word demobbed mean?
Demobilized from service
82
Who is Lil's husband in The Waste Land?
Albert
83
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
84
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
85
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
86
When were Pound's Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets published as a complete volume?
October 1943
87
What work of Eliot's was a collection of conservative political positions in critical essas?
After Strange Gods: A pRimer of Modern Heresy 1934
88
What was wrong with Eliot's wife?
She was mentally ill
89
When did Eliot separate from his wife?
In 1933
90
Who did Eliot marryi n 1957?
Valerie Fletcher
91
How many years younger was Eliot's second wife then him?
More than 30 years
92
When did T.S. Eliot die?
In January 1965
93
When was Eliot awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
In December 1948
94
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
95
What theory of Eliot's motivated his creation of multiple voices?
Impersonality
96
Who did Eliot believe spoke through him?
The voices of other poets
97
What was the early title of the Wasteland?
He Do the Police in Different VVoices
98
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
99
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?
100
What other voices were added to The Wasteland?
Ezra Pound's and Vivien Eliot's
101
Who argued that no other masterpiece has been so heavily marked as the Wasteland?
Hugh Kenner
102
When did Valerie Eliot publish a facsimile edition of The Waste Land?
In 1971
103
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
104
What is the first line of the Waste Land?
April is the cruelest month
105
What character in The Waste Land was from Munich?
Marie
106
Who was the real Marie from The Waste Land?
Countess Larisch who Eliot met in either 1911 or 1914
107
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
108
How many lines long is the last section of The Burial of the Dead?
17 lines in free verse
109
What poet did Eliot translate to begin the last section of The Burial of the Dead?
French poet Charles Bauderlaire
110
From what two works of Baudelaire does Eliot borrow in The Waste Land?
Les Sept Viellards and Flowers of Evil
111
What city does Baudelaire describe in his poems?
Paris
112
What city does Pound describe in The Waste Land?
London
113
Where do the crowds flow in The Waste Land?
Over London Bridge and down King William Street
114
What Cantos from Dante's Inferno does Eliot use with Baudelaire's undead city?
Cantos III and IV
115
What intersection in the Waste Land leads to the financial heart of London?
King Williams Street and Lombard Street
116
Wha battle does the speaker in The Waste Land refer to?
The Battle of Mylae between the Romans and the Carthaginians in 260 BC
117
What does the planted corpse in Stetson's garden represent?
The unburied dead left to rot in the trenches after a bombardment
118
What book of John Webste's does Eliot refer to in The Waste Land?
The White Devil
119
How many scenes are in A Game of Chess?
Two that are composed as inverse reflections
120
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
121
Who is the women in A Game of Chess in The Waste Land patterned on?
Vivien who would be institutionalized in 1938
122
What word did Vivien write on the side of the typescript of A Game of Chess scene one?
Wonderful
123
What work of Shakespeare's does Eliot quote in A Game of Chess?
The Tempest
124
What does Eliot's speaker in A Game of Chess transform Shaespeare into?
The syncopation of jazz
125
What does the word demobbed mean?
Demobilized from service
126
Who is Lil's husband in The Waste Land?
Albert
127
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
128
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
129
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
