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The remarkable relationship of T. S. Eliot and Mary Hutchinson
Ist Teil von
Yeats Eliot review, 2011-09, Vol.28 (3-4), p.3
Ort / Verlag
Eureka Springs: Murphy Newsletter Services
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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Literature Online (LION eBooks)
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According to Quentin Bell, he insisted that they "should recognize in her the most infinitely subtle and civilized being in their society" (59), arguing in a letter to Harold Nicolson that "that delicious person was the nearest approach we can hope to see to what should be the Millamant de nos jours," a reference to Congreve's The Way of the World, which had recently been performed in London (qtd. in Bradshaw II, 7). According to Murray in his biography of Huxley, beginning in late 1922 or early 1923 Huxley and Hutchinson began an affair which soon evolved into a ménage à trois with Maria; indeed, Murray indicates that from the beginning Mary's interest in Huxley was "a means to Maria" (148 ? 19). [...]in 1 936 Matisse did two drawings of her in Paris (Bradshaw 1, 10) and for many years afterward sent her a lily on her birthday (Richardson 128). According to Leonard, "We all sat solemnly on chairs around the room and Tom began ... by reading the poem aloud in that curious monotonous sing-song in which all poets from Homer downwards have recited their poetry.