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In 1973 Anne C. Bolgan identified the ‘Bradleian vein’ in Eliot studies, in part by compiling an annotated checklist of 20 items – reviews, articles, dissertations, and books – on the Bradley-Eliot relationship.1 Among them, Lewis Freed’s T. S. Eliot: Aesthetics and History was the first (published) book-length study to reveal the extent of Bradley’s influence on Eliot’s critical thought.2 Freed’s achievement was the more admirable at the time since he carried on his successful sleuthing and scouting without having been able to examine Eliot’s dissertation itself.
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Cf. Anne C. Bolgan, What the Thunder Really Said: A Retrospective Essay on the Making of the Waste Land (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1973), esp. pp. 171–6. There are five additions strictly for the period she surveys: Eric Thompson, ‘The Critical Forum: “Dissociation of Sensibility”’, Essays in Criticism, 2:2 (April 1952) pp. 207–13 – the first Eliot scholar to make good use of R. W. Church’s 1938 report on Eliot’s dissertation (Gallup C440) and of his own Bradley studies; Kenneth Burke, ‘Prelude to Poetry: Scales and Fugue’, New York Herald Tribune Book Week, 2:17 (3 January 1965) pp. 4, 8 – mostly a review of Eliot’s dissertation, Knowledge and Experience in the Philosophy of F. H. Bradley (London: Faber & Faber, 1965), by an eminent man of letters; Faïza Assad, untitled review of KE, Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, 70:4 (October-December 1965) p. 499; Anthony Rails, untitled rev. of KE, Mind, 76:301 January 1967) pp. 144–5
Heinz J. Schüring, ‘Metaphysik und Dichtung: Ein Kommentar zur Dissertation von.T. S. Eliot’, Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, 21 (1967) pp. 89–109, 392–409 – the best compact study of Eliot’s dissertation that has come to my notice.
Eliot, Selected Essays (3rd edn) (London: Faber & Faber, 1951) p. 17.
Bradley, Collected Essays (London: Oxford University Press, 1930) pp. 216, 220–1.
Cf. Richard Wollheim, F. H. Bradley (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1959) pp. 132–4.
Bradley, Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay (1893; London: Allen & Unwin, 1930) p. 89.
Bradley, Essays on Truth and Reality (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914) p. 160.
Cf. Mario Praz in T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, ed. Allen Täte (London: Chatto & Windus, 1967) p. 267; Modern Literary Criticism, 1900–1970, ed. L. I. Lipking and A. W. Litz (New York: Atheneum, 1972) p. 80.
Cf. Pound, ‘I Gather the Limbs of Osiris’ (1911–12), Selected Prose, 1909–1965, ed. W. Cookson (New York: New Directions, 1972) esp. pp. 21–4
cf. Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (London: Faber & Faber, 1972) pp. 152–3. passim. and 18.
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Frank, A.P. (1990). Further Notes on the ‘Bradleian Vein’ in Eliot Studies. In: Bagchee, S. (eds) T. S. Eliot Annual No. 1. Macmillan Literary Annuals. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07790-8_10
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