The Living Moment: Modernism in a Broken World

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Notes Chapter One Robert Frost and T. S. Eliot: Modernisms 1. Matthew Spencer, ed., Elected Friends: Robert Frost and Edward Thomas to One Another (New York: Handsel, 2003). 2. Pound’s reviews of Frost are collected in The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, edited and introduced by T. S. Eliot (New York: New Directions, 1968). 3. Spencer, Elected Friends, 207–9. 4. Ibid., 129–30. 5. Cited in B. C. Southam, A Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1969), 71–72. 6. Lawrence Rainey, ed., The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 34–35. 7. Robert Frost, Selected Letters of Robert Frost, ed. Lawrence Thompson (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964), 52. 8. Donald Hall, “Robert Frost Corrupted,” Atlantic Monthly, March 1982. Mr. Hall analyzes many examples of how Edward Connery Lathem, editor of this edition, corrupted the text of Frost’s poems by adding commas and other punctuation. 9. A tape recording of this occasion is available in Rauner Library Special Collections at Dartmouth College. Jay Parini transcribes part of Eliot’s remarks in Robert Frost: A Life (New York: Holt, 1999), 402–3. Chapter Two F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Capacity for Wonder 1. Lionel Trilling, “Fitzgerald Plain,” in Speaking of Literature and Society, ed. Diana Trilling (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1980), 258. 2. Ibid, 259. 3. F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Princeton,” in Afternoon of an Author (New York: Scribner’s, 1957). 4. James L.W.West III, The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love (New York: Random House, 2005). Using letters and diaries, West provides a very good account of this relationship and also a close look at the dating and courtship manners of the period. 5. Lionel Trilling, “Scott Fitzgerald,” in The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (New York: Viking Press, 1950), 250. 6. Jeffrey Hart, “Faust in Great Neck,” in Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001). 161 7. John Davies, The Legend of Hobey Baker (Boston: Little, Brown, 1966). This provides a good account of an important figure of the time, who was the epitome of the gentleman athlete. Of considerable charm and interest is Mark Goodman’s novel Hurrah for the Next Man Who Dies (New York: Atheneum, 1985). Hobey Baker is the hero of this novel, and Mr. Goodman has a remarkable ability to portray the man and his time. Like many good novels, this has largely been forgotten, but should be reissued. 8. Among the stories inspired by Ginevra King, Mr. West lists “The JellyBean ” (1920), “Winter Dreams” (1922), “Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar” (1923),“Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman” (1924),“The Third Casket ” (1924), “The Unspeakable Egg” (1924), “John Jackson’s Arcady” (1924), “Love in the Night” (1925),“Not in the Guide Book” (1925),“A Penny Spent” (1926), “Presumption” (1926), “The Adolescent Marriage” (1926), “The Love Boat”(1927),“Flight and Pursuit”(1932),“The Rubber Check” (1932),“More Than Just a House” (1933), and “New Types” (1934). Most of Fitzgerald’s income after This Side of Paradise came from short stories written for magazines, and most of those listed above were relatively inaccessible until the publication of The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli (New York: MJF Books, 1979). 9. Matthew Bruccoli, introductory note to “The Rich Boy,” in The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (New York: Scribner’s, 1989), 397. 10. Matthew Bruccoli, conversation with the author at the Century Association in Manhattan, 2001. Chapter Three Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and The Sun Also Rises 1. We know that Hemingway and Fitzgerald discussed Michael Arlen’s novels at least once. See Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (New York: Scribner’s, 1969), 146. For Fitzgerald’s mention of The Green Hat, see “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” in The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (New York: J. Laughlin, 1945), 17. Chapter Four Hemingway’s Best Novel 1. Hemingway, nineteen, fell in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a nurse he met in Milan in 1918 after being wounded at Fossalta. His memory of his love for her contributed to A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway’s biographers occasionally have been tempted to take as autobiography what he wrote as fiction. In his 1969 biography of Hemingway, Carlos Baker bases his account of Hemingway’s wound on the details of...