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100
Who was the French medical student Eliot met in Sorbonne and who died in Dardanelles?
Who is Jean Verdenal?
100
What is considered the first line of modern poetry in English?
What is "Like a patient etherized upon a table"?
100
1. Whom did Eliot marry in 1915? 2. After ditching the woman in #1, whom did Eliot marry?
Who are 1. Vivien Haigh-Wood and 2. Valerie Fletcher?
100
Eliot's influential critical essay was called?
What is "Tradition and the Individual Talent"?
100
What did Eliot talk about in his 1948 Nobel Prize acceptance speech?
What is the value of poetry/the voices of all poets/poets bringing understanding between people?
200
What did Eliot study (and couldn't defend his dissertation for) at Hah-vahd?
What is philosophy
200
Eliot prefaced his poem with untranslated Italian lines from what work?
What is Dante's Inferno?
200
Why did Eliot end up an expat for the rest of his life?
What is marrying without parental consent?
200
Where was The Waste Land published?
What is the Criterion, Dial, book form with notes, and Hogarth?
200
In "Tradition and the Individual Talent," Eliot talks about how the mind of the poem is a catalyst, much like this substance.
What is platinum?
300
Whose Appearance and Reality was the topic of Eliot's doctoral dissertation?
Who is F. H. Bradley?
300
What is the first line of "Prufrock" and what does it do?
What is "Let us go then, you and I"; invites reader
300
In whose literary salon was Eliot introduced to the Sitwells, Woofs, Huxley, and Lewis?
Who is Lady Ottoline Morrell?
300
Which publishing firm published Eliot's "Poems, 1909-1925"?
What is Faber and Faber?
300
What was Eliot's theory of "impersonality"?
What is multiple voices, other poets speaking through him, etc etc
400
Pound sent Eliot's "Prufrock" to which magazine in what year?
What is Harriet Monroe's Poetry, 1915?
400
How are "HSM" and "Prufrock" similar?
What are juxtapositions?
400
What two firms (disregard name change) did Eliot work for?
What are Lloyds Bank and Faber and Gwyer?
400
What was Pound's fund for Eliot called?
What is "Bel Esprit"?
400
What was the earliest title of The Waste Land, and where did it come from?
What is "He Do the Police in Different Voices"; Dickens's Our Mutual Friend; Sloppy
500
How was "Prufrock" different from what was in the rest of the magazine it was published in?
What is hopelessness, despair, and modern poetry (versus the traditional memorials to Rupert Brooke)?
500
Who is the poetic speaker of "Prufrock" most like?
Who is Hamlet?
500
The Woolfs published this volume of Eliot's poetry in 1919.
What is Poems?
500
"Ash Wednesday," Four Quartets, and "After Strange Gods" demonstrate what change in Eliot?
What is increased religiosity and conservatism?
500
Critic Hugh Kenner says that The Waste Land is probably the most marked work ever; how did Valerie Fletcher prove this?
What is publishing a facsimile edition 1971?
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