birth 225–6
BB’s visit in Seattle 507
letters to 406–7, 449, 490–91
meeting with BB 420–23, 525–6
memories of England 244–5
Bunting, Rustam, BB’s son 245
death 343
parentage 564(589)
poem for 357–8
Bunting, Sarah, BB’s aunt 116
Bunting, Sima, née Alladadian, BB’s second wife 313, 316, 329, 503
at Buckingham Palace garden party 455
divorce from BB 489–92
effect of BB’s affair 407
financial situation 591(24)
loan from Gael Turnbull 415
BB’s love for 302–3, 307
BB’s marriage to 308–9
mother 356, 415
perceived madness 590(326)
reconciliation with BB 496
sewing machine for 350
Bunting, Sima-Maria, BB’s daughter 325, 396, 415, 421, 525–6
birth 317
university grant 511–12
Bunting, Thomas Faramarz, BB’s son 343, 396
Bunting, Thomas Lowe, BB’s father 22, 23, 25–6, 34, 37, 42–3, 86–7
correspondence with Charles Evans 48–51
correspondence with London School of Economics 89–90
costs of BB’s education 542(32–4)
death and obituaries 113–15, 116
on education 59–60
ill health 108–9
love of walking and climbing 110–11
rabbitskin gloves 534(17)
Burke, Carolyn 106, 189
Burns, Jim 399
Butler, Samuel, Muggeridge’s essay on 240–41
Butts, Mary 553(310)
Byrd, William 35, 149, 549(209)
C
Caddel, Richard 36, 60, 214, 215, 254
and Anthony Flowers 6, 11, 151, 352
Cairo, Egypt 279
Calvert, E. Ray 139
Cambridge University rejection 58
Campbell, Roy 206
Cardiff 486–7
Carpenter, Edward 39–40
Carpenter, Humphrey 182, 198, 217, 470
Catullus 409–10
Once so they say (translation) 223–4
Cheesman, Ann, BB’s grandmother 22–3
Cheesman, Annie see Bunting, Annie
Cheesman, Edward, BB’s great-uncle 22
Cheesman, Isaac Taylor, BB’s grandfather 11, 22, 25
Cheesman, Jennie, BB’s aunt 35
Cheesman, Maggie, BB’s aunt 22
Cheesman, Matthew Taylor, BB’s uncle 11, 22–3
Cheesman, Nicholas, BB’s uncle 22–3
Chilesotti, Oscar 181–2
Chodorov, Stephan 469
Chōmei, Kamo no 194
Chopin, link with T. S. Eliot’s Preludes 145
Christie, Alexander, BBs nephew 534–5(30)
City of London boat 276
Clare, John 580(3)
Clare Market Review 88
Clark, Edward 145–6
Clark, Thomas 398, 402
Clarke, Austin 13–14
Clayre, Alasdair 399
Cobbing, Bob 465
Codex Lindisfarnensis 378–9, 388–9
Cole, Thomas 305, 320
Cole, William 434
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 56
Collecott, Diana 226, 503, 507, 510, 537–8(100)
Collier, John 206
Colonial Office 576(330)
Columbia Broadcasting 468
Combined Intelligence Centre 283–6
Communism 242
Conniff, Brian 547(149)
Connolly, Cyril 7, 397, 400, 429, 499
Connor, Tony 413–14
Conrad, Joseph 72
Contempo magazine 168
Cookson, William 176, 193–4, 218, 500
Coppard, A. E. 99
Corbett, William 402–3, 495, 552–3(294)
Corman, Cid 414–15, 420, 423, 425, 427, 440–41
Corn Close 491–2, 517–18, 520
corporal punishment in schools 27
correspondence between
Bunting, Thomas and London School of Economics 89–90
Evans, Charles and Bunting, Thomas 48–51
Evans, Charles and H. J. Edwards of Peterhouse, Cambridge 58
Guedalla, Roger and Mottram, Eric 463–4
Pound, Ezra and Monroe, Harriet 201, 205
Pound, Ezra and Zukofsky, Louis 246, 258, 261–2, 557(397)
Williams, William Carlos and Zukofsky, Louis 227–8, 246–7, 263
Cossey, Tanya 522, 523–4
visit to BB 525–6
costermongers 138
Cotterell, Laurence 462
coups d’état
British 251–2
Spanish 239
in Iran 333
Cowell, Margaret 23
Cox, Kenneth 127, 401, 437–8
Creative Writing 443
Creeley, Robert 292, 352, 398, 401, 410, 414, 417
criada see Juana
criminal justice system 585(170)
Criterion, The magazine 204, 207, 245, 256
Crown and Thistle pub, Forestburn Gate 151
Cunard, Nancy 292
Cunningham, Valentine 563–4(567)
D
D’Oliveira, Basil 585(170)
Dada art 98
Daily Colonist 445
Daily Express 43, 67, 251, 327, 348
Daily Herald 241
Daily Mail 19, 251, 328
Dalton, Hugh 80
Dalton, Will and F. J. Willard 20
Dante 514
Divina Commedia 472
Inferno 238
Darwin, Charles 514
Origin of Species, The 383
Davido, Roudaba see Bunting (Davido), Roudaba
Davie, Donald 128, 369, 372, 400
Davie, Michael 516
Davies, Frederick A. 41–2
Davis, Dick 186
Dawson, Mary 30
De Silver, Anne 255
De Silver, Margaret 167–8, 550–51(233)
financial support of BB 149–51, 223, 228, 259, 554(343)
BB’s letters to 292, 307–8, 314–15, 330, 334–5, 343–5
son 160
Deakin, Charles 313
Deller, Dr Edwin 88
Dendy, F. W. 68
Dennison, Christabel 15, 16, 135
BB’s visit to 115–16
Descant on Rawthey’s Madrigal: Conversations with Basil Bunting (Williams and Bunting) 1–2, 3, 72–3, 76, 104, 145, 430
Dewhurst, Keith 438
Dias, B. H. see Pound, Ezra
Dickens, Charles 117, 255
Dickinson, Patric 399
Dilworth, Thomas 7–8
Dodsworth, Martin 428
Dorn, Ed 342
Dougan, David 484
Douglas, Clifford Hugh 82–3
Douglas, James 67–8
Doyle, Charles ‘Mike’ 434, 443–7, 449
daughter, Meki 495
BB’s letters to 454–5, 468
Drerup, Gertrude 226, 228, 244
Drerup, Karl 226–7, 228, 244, 250
BB’s letters to 252–3, 258–9, 262, 266, 274–5, 287–8
Dudek, Louis 320
Duncan, Robert 292, 419
Dürer, Albrecht 127
E
Easter Rising, Ireland 43
economy in Britain, 1900 21–2
Edelstein, J. M. 419
Eden, Anthony 332–3
Edward VIII, King 250–52
Edwards, Edward 405, 477
Edwards, H. J. 58
Edwards, Margaret (Peggy) see Greenbank, Margaret (Peggy)
Egli, Helen (née Rowe) 135–6, 186, 411–12
Eliot, T. S. 11, 118–19, 121, 122–3, 546(134)
anti-Semitism 178
on Chomei at Toyama 193–4
The Criterion magazine 204, 207, 245, 256
exclusio
n of Homage to Sextus Propertius 561(487)
ill health 318
influence of 76
letters to 323
mentioned in introductory note to Briggflatts 362
opinion of 204–5, 342
on The Spoils 341
preludes in poetry 123
WORKS
Ash-Wednesday 215
essays in criticism 214–15
Four Quartets 342
Preludes 145
Tradition and the Individual Talent 214–15
Waste Land, The 8, 237, 532(27)
comparison with Briggflatts 376–7, 387
Elizabethan music 149
Ellison, Dorothy 534(17)
Ellmann, Maud 380
Else, Richard 517–18
Elswick, industry 26
Encounter 399
Evans, Charles (headmaster at Leighton Park School) 42, 46–51, 53, 57–9, 88–9
pacifism 62–3
reference for Rt. Hon. Sidney Webb 90–91
Evans, E. V. 87
Evening Chronicle 398, 400, 416, 429, 454
working for 351–2
Everyman magazine 160–61
Ewart, Gavin 462
F
Faber and Faber 319, 341, 471
Fabian common room at LSE 82
Fabian Society 37–8, 39, 79, 536(56, 58)
views 139
Fagin, Larry 478
Fascism 177–9, 259–62
Fellowes, Edmund Horace 35
Fenham Barracks 69, 70
Fenwick, Charley 25
Ferdowsi, Hakīm 231, 245, 555(349)
Shahnameh 183–6, 225–6, 374–5
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence 262
Fernandez, Ramon 142
Ferry, Ping 497
festival of poetry 473–4
Fiber, Sally 134
Finch, Peter 465
Finlay, Ian Hamilton 165
Firdausi see Ferdowsi, Hakīm
First World War 61–75
Fisher, Roy 430–31, 432, 454
FitzGerald, Edward 215
Fitzroy, A. T. 67–8
Fitzroy Tavern see Kleinfeldt’s
Flowers, Anthony 6, 11, 151, 352
Flynn, Dallam, editor of Poems 1950 318–19, 338
Ford, Ford Madox 93, 95–7, 98–101, 103–7, 534–4(79)
It Was the Nightingale 99–101
lack of photographs 161
on EP’s handwriting 555(353)
Parade’s End 98–9
Romance, collaboration with Joseph Conrad 72
Selected Poems 455
Forde, Victoria 144–5, 290–91, 351, 420, 475–6, 480, 534–5(30)
accompanying BB to London 510
accounts of BB 110–11, 112, 158–9, 167–8, 421
on Annie Bunting 170, 220
conversations with Bourtai and Roudaba 244–5
conversations with BB’s sister, Joyce 76
on T. S. Eliot 122–3
letters to 456–8, 505–6, 508–9, 511, 516–17, 524–5
The Poetry of Basil Bunting 6
on Villon 128
visit to BB 512
on Yeats’ family 175
Foreign Office 299, 309, 312, 332, 334
Forster, Ann see Cheesman, Ann
Forster, E. M. 241
Forsyth, Jimmy 26
fortunes, change in 395–6, 402–3
Foulds, Elfrida Vipont 30–31
Four Pages magazine 338
Fox, George 30–31
Fox, Josephine 501
Fox Cottage, Whitley Chapel 521–3, 525
France, Anatole 87
Franco, Francisco 243
Fraser, G. S. 499–500
free verse 198
Fry, Ellen Mary 391, 579(54)
Fry, Roger 134
Fulcrum Press 397, 428, 436, 499
Fuller, Roy 429
Fülöp-Miller, René 142
G
Garzan, Gen. Abbas 288
Geordie dialect 456
George V, King 203
George VI, King 252
German Fifth Column 286
Gibbon, Edward 232
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The 233
Gilonis, Harry 189–90
Ginsberg, Allen 401
Studying the Signs 425–6
Gnomon Press 430
Goacher, Denis 324, 334, 336, 350, 405–6, 498–9
on BB 71, 254, 348, 407–8, 414, 430
on BB’s accent 16
on T. S. Eliot 341–2
BB’s letters to 354, 403, 471, 505
on reviews of BB’s work 400
visit to EP 306–7
on William Wordsworth 438–9
Golden Hind, boat 271–3, 567(27)
Gollan, Lachlan 23
Gordon, David 123–4, 479
Gormley, John 23
Graves, Robert 443
Gray, Cecil 148
Great James Street, nr Holborn 84
Green, J. R. 378–9
Greenbank, Annie 31
Greenbank, Cissie see Armstrong, Jean
Greenbank, George 31
Greenbank, Isabel 31
Greenbank, John 31
Greenbank, John Allen 28, 31, 538(117)
Greenbank, Margaret (Peggy) 1, 31–3, 368, 477–8, 526–7, 582(66)
Briggflatts possibly written for 403–4, 581(27)
rekindled relationship 403–8, 581(31)
Greene, Robert 235–6
Gregory, Dr T. E. 90
Guardian newspaper 398, 401, 429, 438, 465, 471, 499, 511, 516
see also Manchester Guardian
Guedalla, Roger 134–5, 167, 429, 461, 463–4, 500
Gunn, Thom 7, 376–7, 383, 385, 387
H
H. D. 197
Amaranth 61
Haas, Eugen 180–81
Hafiz, BB’s translation 231
Haire, Norman 548(189)
Hymen, or the Future of Marriage 143–4
Hale, William Gardner 132
Hall, Donald 499
Halliday, John, BB’s son-in-law 522
Hamburger, Michael 398–9
Hamilton, Ian/Edward Pygge 435–6
Hamnett, Nina 134, 140–41, 149, 547–8(164, 167)
Hamzavi 349–50
Handley, John 31
Hart, Matthew 18
Hauptmann, Gerhart 172
Hazhir, Abdolhosein, Prime Minister of Iran 325–6
Hazlitt, William 14, 532(29), 537(77)
health reform, campaigns for 25–6
Heath, Edward 487
Hembrough, Dr J. W. 25–6
Hemingway, Ernest 99, 543–4(79)
Moveable Feast, A 105
Henshaw, Michael 511
Heseltine, Arthur 94
Heseltine, Philip see Warlock, Peter
Higgins, Bertram 158, 207, 551(235)
highwaymen at Luristan 301
Hiler, Hilaire 248
Himmelfarb, Gertrude 178
Hindle, Wilfrid 284–5
Hitler, Adolf 192, 218, 228, 230–31, 264, 284, 322, 488
HMS Hampshire, sinking 43
Hobhouse, Leonard Trelawny 73
Hobhouse, Stephen 71, 73–4
Hobsbaum, Philip 190
Hochschild, Adam 64, 67, 70
Hodgkin, Jonathan Backhouse 56–7
Hojoki (Chōmei) 194
Holmes, Richard 428
Hope, Francis 397
Horace 189–90, 237, 442–3
Hore-Belisha, Leslie 267
Horesh, Ezra 315
Horowitz, Michael 520–21
Hound and Horn magazine 209, 210
Howard, Richard 396
Howell, Anthony 434
Howson, Susan 81, 133, 135, 259–60, 540–41(10)
Hull, Alan 592(47)
Humphries, Barry (Edna Everage) 474
Hutchinson, Alexander 450–51
Huxley, Aldous 148
I
Idema, Flt. Lt. 340–41
Idonea yacht 299
Il libro di Piera (Piera’s book) 180–81
Il Mare 181, 208, 217, 561(485)
Illustrated Chronicle 68
Imagist movement 197–8
International Marxist Group (IMG) 464
International Socialists (IS) 464
International Times 401, 429
Iran 283–6
assassinations 325–6
bakers in Teheran 373–4
BB’s journalism in Teheran 313, 327–36
BB’s journey to Teheran 296
BB’s work for British Embassy in Teheran 300–312
Isherwood, Christopher 192
Italy
theme in Briggflatts II 369–70
visit to 321, 324–5, 572–3(226)
see also Bunting, Basil, HOMES
J
Jaffin, David 465
Japan, poetry on 193–6
Jay, Peter 430
J.C. (Times Literary Supplement) 103
Jeffery, Keith 287, 452
Jenks, Jorian 178
Joachim, Prince of Prussia 228–9
John Bull 67
John, Augustus 134
Johnson, Carol 12
Johnson, Wilko 432
Johnstone, Air Vice-Marshall Sandy 279–80
Jókai, Mór 158
Jones, David 7–8, 531(1)
The Anathemata 8
Jones, Douglas 430
Jones, Whitney 480–83
Joyce, James 97, 123, 209, 213, 218, 427, 483, 541(12)
Juana, Buntings’ servant in Tenerife 247–50
K
Kahane, Jacques 111, 544–5(100)
Kahane, Matthew 111
Kalavrezou, Ioli 129
Karachi, Pakistan 276
Kavanagh, Patrick 429
Keats, John 432, 515
Keddie, Nikki R. 333
Kell, Richard 398
Kenner, Hugh 319, 363, 401, 419, 438, 506
Pound Era, The 198
Sinking Island, A 7
Kenner, Lisa 506–7
Kerensky, Alexander, Russian Prime Minister 54
Kermode, Frank 471
Khan, Morteza Quli 311
Khomeini, Ayatollah 489
King James Bible, role in BB’s education 29
Kingsmill, Hugh 241
Kingston, Rodger 439, 586(198)
Kipling, Rudyard 20, 341–2
Absent-Minded Beggar, The 20
Kitasono, Katue 292
Kitchener, Field Marshall Horatio Herbert 43
Kleinfeldt’s pub (the Fitzroy), London 35, 134, 148, 149
Kleinzahler, August, student of BB 447–51, 496–7, 533(12), 587(198, 207)
Knowles, Lilian 80–81
Koch, Vivienne 320
Kramer, Jane 425
L
La Bruyère, Jean de 552(282)
La Conciergerie prison 107, 544(83)
La Fontaine, Jean de 169
La Santé prison 99, 101, 102, 107, 544(83)
La Warr, 9th Earl de 267
Ladysmith, relief of 19, 20–21
Lambton, Nancy 333
Lancet, The 115
Larkin, Philip 474
Lask, Thomas 429
Laughlin, James 219, 247, 545(103)