 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
After parting with the debentures that I gave to Eliot, I was left with only about ￡100 a year of unearned money, which I could not get rid of as it was in my marriage settlement. This did not seem to matter, as I had become capable of earning money by my books.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 chap. 2: Russia, 1968
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T. S. Eliot (1888-1965, American-born British poet and literary critic, acquired British citizenship in 1927) later won the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1948) for ``The Waste Land,'' so at least the name You've probably heard of it. After completing his undergraduate and graduate studies at Harvard University, he moved to England in 1915 and stayed at Oxford University.
Elliott was originally born and raised in a wealthy family, but after marrying Vivian, whom he met at Oxford University in 1915, things seemed to go awry (note: he divorced Vivian in 1933). Thirty years ago, I obtained and watched the video of the movie ``I Love You Too Much: The Poet's Wife,'' which depicts the love between two people, but that video is currently missing.) Elliott's father was strongly opposed to Eliot marrying Vivian, and when Eliot abandoned his family's Unitarian faith and became an Anglican, his father became furious and took measures to prevent his inheritance from passing on. See wikipedia for more information. )
The reason Russell gave Eliot the bonds was because Eliot was in financial trouble for the reasons mentioned above. (Eliot also took Russell's logic lectures at Harvard's graduate school.)