1. For a few relevant observations see E. Lobb, T. S. Eliot and the Romantic Critical Tradition (London: Routledge, 1981).
2. William M. Chace, The Political Identities of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1973), p. 128.
3. T. S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ (1919) in The Sacred Wood (1920) (London: Methuen, 1966), p. 49. Hereafter cited as SW.
4. Ronald Schuchard, ‘Eliot and Hulme in 1916: Toward a Revaluation of Eliot’s Critical and Spiritual Development’, PMLA, 88, no. 5 (1973) 1083–94. Schuchard’s opinion is that Eliot’s ‘classicism even in 1916 was as much moral and “religious” in its formulation and attitude as it was aesthetic and literary’ (p. 1084).
5. Kenneth Asher, T. S. Eliot and Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).