Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917

480 Pages·1998·16.597 MB·English

by  T.S. Elliot

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By T. S. Eliot
THE COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS OF T. S. ELIOT
poetry
COLLECTED POEMS 1909-1962
FOUR QUARTETS
THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS
THE WASTE LAND
A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts
Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
Edited by Valerie Eliot
SELECTED POEMS
OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS
growltiger’s LAST STAND AND OTHER POEMS
ANABASIS, BY ST.-JOHN PERSE
Translated by T. S. Eliot
plays
THE COMPLETE PLAYS OF T. S. ELIOT
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
THE FAMILY REUNION
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK
THE ELDER STATESMAN
literary criticism
SELECTED ESSAYS
THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM
TO CRITICIZE THE CRITIC
ON POETRY AND POETS
ESSAYS ON ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
FOR LANCELOT ANDREWES
SELECTED PROSE OF T. S. ELIOT
Edited by Frank Kermode
THE VARIETIES OF METAPHYSICAL POETRY
Edited by Ronald Schuchard
social criticism
THE IDEA OF A CHRISTIAN SOCIETY
Edited by David Edwards
NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CULTURE
correspondence
THE LETTERS OF T. S. ELIOT, VOLUME I: 1898-1922
Edited by Valerie Eliot
T. S. ELIOT
INVENTIONS OF THE
MARCH HARE
POEMS 1909-1917
edited by
Christopher Ricks
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All texts by T. S. Eliot © Valerie Eliot, 1996
Editorial matter and annotations © Christopher Ricks, 1996
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Excerpts from The Letters ofT. S. Eliot, Volume I: 1898-1922,
edited by Valerie Eliot, copyright © 1988 by SET Copyrights Limited,
reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace & Company.
Excerpts from To Criticize the Critic by T. S. Eliot.
Copyright © 1965 and copyright renewed © 1993 by Valerie Eliot.
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.
Pages reproduced in facsimile from T. S. Eliot’s notebook
by permission of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection,
The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965.
Inventions of the March Hare: poems 1909-1917/by T. S. Eliot;
edited by Christopher Ricks,
p. cm.
Includes index.
isbn 0-15-100274-6
I. Ricks, Christopher B. II. Title.
ps35°9-l43i58 1997
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Printed in the United States of America
First U. S. edition
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Illustration on page i (reduced yo%J
[Inventions of the March Hare]
This title, in black ink, crossed through by TSE,
is on the blank flyleaf at the front of the Notebook. For
TSE’s title on the front free endpaper, Complete Poems
of T. S. Eliot, and for the preference here given to
Inventions of the March Hare, see pp. 3-5.
Contents
Preface xi
The Manuscripts xi
This Edition xviii
Annotation xxii
Editorial Conventions xxx
Acknowledgements xxxii
Abbreviations xxxiv
Chronology of T. S. Eliot’s Poems 1905—1920 xxxvii
INVENTIONS OF THE MARCH HARE 1
Convictions (Curtain Raiser) 11
First Caprice in North Cambridge 13
Fourth Caprice in Montparnasse 14
Second Caprice in North Cambridge 15
Interlude in London 16
Opera 17
Silence 18
Mandarins
1 Stands there, complete 19
2 Two ladies of uncertain age 20
3 The eldest of the mandarins 21
4 Still one more thought for pen and ink! 22
Easter: Sensations of April
[1] The little negro girl who lives across the alley 23
11 Daffodils 24
Goldfish (Essence of Summer Magazines)
I Always the August evenings come 26
II Embarquement pour Cythere 27
hi On every sultry afternoon 28
iv Among the debris of the year 29
Suite Clownesque
i Across the painted colonnades 3 2
ii Each with a skirt just down to the ancle 34
iii If you’re walking down the avenue 35
iv In the last contortions of the dance 38
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock lines 1-69 39
Prufrock’s Pervigilium 43
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock resumed 45
Entretien dans un pare 48
Interlude: in a Bar 51
Pay sage Triste 52.
Afternoon 5 3
Suppressed Complex 54
In the Department Store 56
The Little Passion: Prom “An Agony in the Garret” 57
[Another draft including these lines] 57
Introspection 60
'While you were absent in the lavatory 61
The Burnt Dancer 62
Pirst Debate between the Body and Soul 64
Bacchus and Ariadne: 2nd Debate between the Body and Soul 68
The smoke that gathers blue and sinks 70
He said: this universe is very clever 71
Inside the gloom 72
Oh little voices of the throats of men 75
The Love Song of St. Sebastian 78
Do I know how I feel? Do I know what I think? 80
Hidden under the heron’s wing 82
O lord, have patience 83
Airs of Palestine, No. 2 84
Petit Epitre 86
Tristan Cor bier e 88
The Engine 1—11 90
In silent corridors of death
93
TWO FACSIMILES
95
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