Literature: Works
"Abou Ben Adhem" (Leigh Hunt, 1838) – NJ recalls when thinking of Kernéval's precedence: MP 144
"Adam Bede" (George Eliot, 1859): on Fire Duty, Curtis:
brings to read: MP 152
begins explaining plot to NJ: MP 152, 154
"Adolphe" (Benjamin Constant, 1816) – read by bed-ridden Trapnel: BDFR 204, 215
"Alcools" (Apollinaire) in Moreland's flat: CCR 11
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland":
brought to mind by planchette: AW 104
comparisons to characters from:
Mrs Fettiplace-Jones and the Red Queen: KO 94
Bithel halfway between the Walrus and the Carpenter: VB 37
Field-Marshal (Montgomery) as beast from: MP 189
Howard Craggs and the Mad Hatter: BDFR 55
Widmerpool and the Frog Footman: BM 67; BDFR 109-10
"The Anatomy of Melancholy" (Robert Burton, 1621):
quoted: BDFR 6, 8, 57, 165, 172, 219, 231, 244, 251-2
central importance to BDFR:
themes and characters cf "Works of Art a) authors" Burton, Robert
NJ's work cf below "Borage and Hellebore"
ancient myths and legends:
Agamemnon heroes and errant wives: SA 108
Andromeda Moreland teases Donners with: KO 126
Anubis Colonel Pedlar as in scene at Div HQ: SA 37-9
Bacchus / Dionysus / Silenus:
Le Bas's euphemism for drunkenness: SA 172
Van der Voort makes NJ imagine Dutch paintings of: MP 94
Charon Albert as Uncle Giles's ferryman: KO 151
Cythera Stourwater contrasted with: KO 142
the Eumenides:
seen as driving human behaviour: AW 91
the central theme of KO: KO 6-7, 72, 77, 83, 161, 201
Horus Colonel Hogbourne-Johnson as in scene at Div HQ: SA 37-9
Isis:
Mrs Erdleigh as priestess of: KO 199
Canon Fenneau writes article on: HSH 224
Mars Dr Trelawney on the approach of WW2: KO 195
Marsyas Moreland teases Donners with: KO 126
Mithras Dr Trelawney on the sword of as the approach of WW2: KO 194, 206
the Oracle at Delphi Odo Stevens treats Mrs Erdleigh as: MP 143
Pharaoh General Liddament as in scene at Div HQ: SA 37-9
Osiris:
Dr Trelawney on the slaying of as the approach of WW2: KO 194-5, 206; VB 206; SA 161
Canon Fenneau writes article on: HSH 224
Sisyphus Albert as burdened labourer: KO 151
the Styx destruction of "Profiles in String" as descent into: TK 181
"Anna Karenina":
Templer, Mona and Quiggin as characters: AW 179
Trapnel on Naturalism and: BDFR 230
"The Anniversary" (John Donne) Members entices NJ to the Venice conference: TK 12
"Anthology of Soviet Literature" part of Erridge's out-of-date collection: BDFR 75
"Antony and Cleopatra":
senior officers' party in Brussels like the dance on Pompey's galley: MP 175
and title of "Sad Majors": BDFR 148
Trapnel deserted by his Hercules: TK 33
"The Apple Cart" (Shaw, 1929) and possible meaning of Bagshaw's nickname: BDFR 38-9
"Arabian Nights":
Jean's postcard reminiscent of: AW 221
Sir Gavin as Haroun-al-Raschid: BM 192
Moreland sees as the world of Sir Magnus Donners: TK 277
"The Art of Horace Isbister" NJ's and production of see Isbister, Horace, RA
"The Assignation" (Poe) and NJ's affair with Jean Duport: MP 229-30
"As You Like It" Quoted by Mr Deacon as friends desert his party: BM 239
"Athenae Oxonienses" (Anthony Á Wood, 1691-2) NJ studying: MP 73
"The Atheist's Tragedy" (Tourneur) Moreland searches for in the Lilienthals' bookshop: TK 73
"Attick and Roman Reckonings of Capacity ..." magnum opus of Dr Brightman's ancestor: TK 9
"Auguries of Innocence" (Blake) Evadne Clapham and Shernmaker argue on: BDFR 137
"Automne Malade" (Apollinaire, 1913) Moreland quotes: CCR 55
"Ave atque Vale" (Swinburne):
Mr Deacon on Gypsy's lesbianism: BM 121
Moreland teases Donners with: KO 127
Baedeker's Guides in Erridge's room: LM 130
"Ballade of Theocritus" (Andrew Lang, 1881) read by Le Bas: QU 42-3
"Baroque Interlude" travel book by Mark Members: CCR 66
"Bedsores" see Leintwardine, Ada
the Bible:
the Garden of Eden:
Mrs Erdleigh likens Pamela to the serpent: MP 138
Fenneau on the nakedness of Adam: HSH 129
Stonehurst perched like Noah's Ark on Mt Ararat: KO 9
Maclintick on Lot's wife: CCR 38
Jacob and the Angel wrestling with Blackhead's obstructiveness like: MP 46
the Song of Deborah and Barak Gwatkin quotes Popkiss's sermon on: VB 72
David and Uriah Glober on the story of Candaules and Gyges: TK 94
I Chronicles 19:13 Quoted on the first Lord Warminster's tomb: BDFR 49
Vashti and Ahasuerus Dr Brightman on Candaules and Gyges: TK 94
Isaiah 35:
read at Victory Day Service: MP 227-8
NJ muses on:
impenetrability of like Blake: MP 229
the nature of "the wayfaring man": MP 228, 236
Ezekiel's vision of dry bones Popkiss's sermon and the theme of VB: VB 41-3
Belshazzar's feast NJ's billet at the battalion's base: VB 9
the Nativity Dicky Umfraville on accommodation for Erridge's funeral: BDFR 44
the Lord's Prayer Fenneau jocularly misquotes: HSH 123
Jesus walks on the water Pamela creates fantasy of dream of Ferrand-Sénéschal: TK 116
the Parable of the Unjust Steward Hogbourne-Johnson as: SA 33
the raising of Lazarus Crowding on Trapnel's reappearance in "The Hero of Acre": TK 35-6
"Render unto Caesar ..." Fenneau on tribute to Sillery: HSH 118
the Passion:
Peter:
Prince Theodoric recalls whilst warming himself: MP 56
NJ refers to cutting off the guard's ear: MP 56
Pilate:
Quiggin and Shernmaker on washing hands of Kydd: BDFR 135
X Trapnel and NJ on the meaning of "truth": HSH 81
the church in Sardis:
NJ's billet at the battalion's base: VB 7-9, 11, 44; TK 92-3
Dr Brightman on Lydia: TK 92-3
the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:
Dr Trelawney on the coming of war: KO 195
Bagshaw on the subjects of journalism: BDFR 37
"Bibliotheca Classica" Dr Brightman's ancestor instrumental in: TK 9
"Bin Ends" Trapnel's volume of short stories see Trapnel, X
"The Bitch Pack Meets on Wednesday" see Leintwardine, Ada
"Bleak House" (Dickens) Glober and NJ on Tokenhouse's company premises: TK 72
"Bonny Dundee" (Sir Walter Scott) Stringham on the impossibility of joining the Cavalry: SA 81
"The Book of Abramelin the Mage" (Cornelius Agrippa) Moreland and Mrs Erdleigh discuss: TK258
"Borage and Hellebore" NJ's work on Burton:
conception: BDFR 6-7
gestation: BDFR 6-7, 15, 23, 32, 40, 102, 127, 151, 166, 194, 219, 249, 255
birth: BDFR 255
Dr Brightman on: TK 8, 247
otherwise mentioned: HSH 31, 94
"A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from Sept 1678 to April 1714" (Luttrell) NJ studying: MP 73, 151
"Bronstein: Marxist or Mystagogue?" (Vernon Gainsborough):
published by Quiggin & Craggs: BDFR 253; HSH 39
favourably reviewed by TLS: BDFR 253-4
Bagshaw on: BDFR 254
"The Brothers Karamazov":
Pennistone teases Lebedev on the Grand Inqisitor: MP 172; TK 223-4
Father Zossima and Erridge's funeral: BDFR 59
debate on etymology of the name: TK 224-5
Dr Brightman on the abjectness of apology: HSH 55
X Trapnel on the concept of the character in novels: HSH 80
the Cabbala NJ expects to find in Dr Trelawney's room: KO 191
"Cain's Jawbone" Evadne Clapham's 35th novel: HSH 90
"Cambises, King of Persia" (Thomas Preston, 1569) Moreland reads in hospital: TK 279
"Camel Ride to the Tomb" see Trapnel, X
"The Castle of Fratta" (Ippolio Nievo, 1867) NJ takes to read in Venice: TK 56
"City State and State of City" for long Sillery's only published work: QU 163
"Chanson de la Plus Haute Tour" (Arthur Rimbaud, 1872) – Moreland quotes: KO 87
"The Charterhouse of Parma" (Stendhal, 1839) different view of Italy from that of Nievo: TK 56
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" (Browning):
Stringham identifies with as he prepares for Far East posting: SA 212-4
provides title for "The Soldier's Art": SA 214
"A Christmas Carol" (Dickens) X Trapnel on the concept of the character in novels: HSH 80
"Le Cimetière Marin" (Paul Valery, 1922) – Moreland quotes: VB 5-6
"Collected Poems" Mark Members wins prize for late in life: HSH 88
"Le Comédie Humaine" (Balzac):
the limit of NJ's French: SA 49-50, 86, 95-6
Trapnel on Naturalism and: BDFR 229
"Confessions" (Rousseau) Trapnel on the inferiority of such works to the novel: HSH 80
"Content" (George Herbert) NJ thinks of at Erridge's funeral: BDFR 59
"Le Cor" (Alfred de Vigny, 1820) NJ quotes: VB 114
"The Coral Island" (RM Ballantyne) both NJ and Moreland dislike: KO 85
"The Communist Manifesto" Quoted by planchette: AW 102-3
"David Copperfield" (Charles Dickens) St John Clarke holds forth to Blanche on: CCR 96
"Dead Souls" (Gogol) – NJ thinks of concerning Widmerpool and the establishment of officers: SA 169
"Death in the Afternoon" (Hemingway) – Ferrand-Sénéschal enacts: TK 21
"Death in Venice" (Mann) – Members unwittingly touches on theme of TK: TK 11
"Death's-head Swordsman" Gwinnett's critical biography of X Trapnel see Gwinnett, Russell
"Descartes, Gassendi and the Atomic Theory of Epicurus" see Pennistone, David
"The Devil is an Ass" (Jonson, 1616) – Moreland on the horror of working with committee ladies: TK 233
"Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" (Brewer) Akworth Junior and the ragging of Le Bas: BDFR 250
"Doctor Faustus" (Christopher Marlowe) – Dr Trelawney denies fear of death: KO 198
"Dogs Have No Uncles" posthumous work by X Trapnel see Trapnel, X
"Don Juan" (Byron):
Castlemallock brings to mind: VB 177
Glober as: TK 145
"Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie" (Eliphas Lévi, 1861) Moreland has glanced at: KO 87
"The Doll's House" (Ibsen) – seen by NJ: QU 113
"Doctor Zhivago" (Boris Pasternak, 1958):
Members on the Nobel Prize controversy: TK 12
Tokenhouse disparages politics of: TK 133
"The Dunciad" (Dryden) Dr Brightman's ancestor appears in: TK 9
"Dust Thou Art" novel by St John Clarke see Clarke, St John
"The Dutch Courtezan" (Marsdon, 1605) – Moreland applies to Pamela: TK 280
"E'en the Longest River" novel by St John Clarke see Clarke, St John
"Einzige und sein Eigentum, Der" (Max Stirner, 1845) Bagshaw on: BDFR 36; TK 20
"Endymion" (Keats) Moreland applies to vintage cars: TK 279
"Engine Melody" "The Pistons of our Locomotives ..." published as: BDFR 253
"Esmond" (Thackeray) NJ attempts to read at Castlemallock: VB 177, 189, 210
"Fabian Essays" (GB Shaw and HG Wilshire, 1891) borrowed by Quiggin: QU 183
"Father, hear the prayer we offer" (Love Maria Willis) Quoted by Stringham: CCR 178
"Faust":
Gwinnett as: BDFR 145
occasion of Members' misattribution leading to the controversy with Dr Trelawney: HSH 120
"Fields of Amaranth" novel by St John Clarke see Clarke, St John
"For a Dead Lady" (Edward Arlington Robinson, 1921) Glober on Mopsy Pontner: TK 87
"For Name and Fame; or Through the Khyber Passes" (GA Henty) Sunny Farebrother loves: KO 27
"Friend's Passion for his Astrophel" (Sidney) evidence of Sidney's extra-military life: MP 187
"From Peasant to Collective Farmer" part of Erridge's out-of-date collection: BDFR 75
"Garnered at Sunset" Sillery's memoirs see Sillery
"Georges Dandin" (Molière, 1668) NJ thinks of as epitomising the subaltern's life: SA 27
"Goblin Market" (Christina Rossetti) – the dwarfish lieutenant in War Office corridors: MP 6
"The Golden Bough" (Frazer) – and the title and theme of TK: TK 11
"The Golden Journey to Samarkand" (Flecker) favourite lines of Sir Gavin Walpole-Wilson: BM 25
"Golden Treasury, The" (Palgrave) and possible meaning of Bagshaw's nickname: BDFR 38-9
"The Govlyov Family" (Saltykov-Schedrin, 1872-6):
NJ reads on Fire Duty: MP 151, 154
relevance of to Soviet times: MP 154
"A Grammarian's Funeral" (Browning) Members quotes in enticing NJ to Venice: TK 11
"Great Expectations" (Charles Dickens) – St John Clarke holds forth to Blanche on: CCR 96
"The Great Gatsby" Trapnel on Naturalism and: BDFR 231
"The Green Hat" (Michael Arlen, 1924) – borrowed by Quiggin from NJ: QU 197
"Gulliver's Travels" (Swift) – Buster's death beneath a "Houyhnhnm juggernaut": TK 7
"Gunga Din" (Kipling) Bagshaw objects to being treated as in India: BDFR 35
"Hamlet":
NJ fantasises on the Stringham family as characters in: QU 74
NJ and Bagshaw discuss fellow-travellers: BDFR 102
"H-Bomb Eclogue" (1966) Mark Members' final published poem: HSH 88
"The Heart is Highland" novel by St John Clarke see Clarke, St John
"Henry IV, Part 1":
Maclintick likens Barnby to Glendower: CCR 41
Chips Lovell likens Erridge to Prince Hal: CCR 192
"Henry IV, Part 2" NJ talks to actor who played Shallow: HSH 113
"Heraclitus" (Callimachus, trans. William Johnson Cory) – Le Bas's love of: QU 42-4, 217
"High Tide on the coast of Lincolnshire" (Ingelow) – Ted Jeavons heard Mrs Patrick Campbell recite: LM 40
"Histoire Comique des états et empires de la lune" (Cyrano de Bergerac) Pennistone discusses: HSH 33
"History of the Great Northern Railway" (Grinling) in Moreland's flat: CCR 11
"History of Greece" (Grote) Curtis has read right through: MP 32
"The History of the World" (Sir Walter Raleigh) NJ thinks of at Erridge's funeral: BDFR 59-60
"An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" (Marvell) – Brightman on Quiggin: BDFR 13
"The Humorous Lieutenant" (Fletcher) see Works of Art h) theatre and dance
hunting poem by Egerton-Warburton, RE (1804-91) Templer quotes from: AW 50
"The Idiot" (Dostoesvsky):
Quiggin sees Erridge as Prince Myshkin: LM 154; CCR 190
Lebedev reminds NJ of: MP 171
Trapnel on Naturalism and: BDFR 231
"If Winter Comes" (ASM Hutchinson, 1920) NJ reading over long time: QU 100, 132
"Imitations of Horace, 2.i" (Pope) NJ recalls opinion of Cowley: MP 229-30
"The Indian Crisis" part of Erridge's out-of-date collection: BDFR 75
"Inferno" (Dante):
film of: KO 85
Max Pilgrim compares blitz at Café Madrid to: SA 152
"In Faith" (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1917) Heather Hopkins' album: LM 98
"The Ingoldsby Legends" (Barham, 1837-40):
one of NJ's favourite books as a child: MP 221
"The Cenotaph" and the monuments in St Paul's: MP 222
"In Memoriam" (Tennyson) – and Trapnel's reappearance in "The Hero of Acre": TK 36
"Iron Aspidistra" (1923) Mark Members first poem, published in:
"Public School Verse": QU 171, 180-1, 196
"Collected Poems": HSH 88
"I Stopped at a Chemist" see Leintwardine, Ada
"Jerusalem" (Blake):
sung at Victory Day Service: MP 229
reminds NJ of Cowley: MP 229
"Jude the Obscure" (Hardy) – Sillery's oblique ref. to Quiggin and Members: QU 177
"Das Kapital" (Karl Marx) Quoted by planchette: AW 102-3
"King Candaules" (Andé Gide, 1901) Dr Brightman on: TK 95-6
"King Lear":
appearance of:
Mr Deacon at Hyde Park corner: BM 91; BDFR 52
Howard Craggs at Erridge's funeral: BDFR 52, 56
daughters:
and Bagshaw's:
problems with: TK 192
offer accommodation in old age: HSH 114
Members on the horror of Quiggin's: HSH 114
Smethyck's admiration for: HSH 114
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" (DH Lawrence) Moreland on artificiality of: KO 80-1
"The Lady of Shallott" (Tennyson) Quoted by Sir Gavin Walpole-Wilson as typical of Stourwater: BM 194
"Lady Clara Vere de Vere" (Tennyson) NJ and Dr Brightman pun on Gwinnett's ancestry: TK 55
"Lancer" (AE Housman) Stringham on enlisting: SA 81
"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" (Choderlos de Laclos, 1782):
Barnby like Valmont: AW 30
Moreland applies Valmont's valet to charity-committee ladies: TK 233
"Lays of Ind" (Aliph Cheem, 1888) one of four books in Stonehurst dining room: KO 63
"Life of Whistler" (Elizabeth Robins Pennell, 1908) NJ's father buys in Paris: TK 59
"Little Red Riding Hood" Mrs Widmerpool grins like the Wolf: KO 243
"A Lost Chord" (Adelaide Ann Procter) – Moreland satirises in title for imaginary autobiography: BDFR 129
"Marmion" (Sir Walter Scott):
Moreland quotes re Dr Trelawney: KO 189-90
Gwatkin and the romantic hero: KO 16
"Masse Mensch" (Toller, 1922) Guggenbühl uses as example of political engagement: AW 174
"Match Me Such Marvel" novel by St John Clarke see Clarke, St John
"Memoirs of Lady Amesbury": LM 13, 26
"Memoirs of Casanova":
Moreland and Maclintick discuss: CCR 35-8
Trapnel on the inferiority of such works to the novel: HSH 80
"Memorabilia" (Browning) – Crowding's students on his having known Trapnel: TK 39
"A Midsummer Night's Dream":
Guggenbühl uses as example of politically worthless literature: AW 174
Donners first meets Matilda at school performance of: CCR 129
Bottom and Titania:
Moreland on women's preference for hideous men: VB 135
Isobel relates to Widmerpool and Pamela: MP 204
"Mimosa" novel by St John Clarke see Clarke, St John
"Les Miserables" read by Örn and Widmerpool at La Grenadière: QU 113, 148
"The Mistress" (Cowley) NJ thinks of "Innocent Ill" as perfect example of wit: MP 230
"Le Morte d'Arthur":
Stourwater like the Castle of Joyous Gard: KO 109; VB 181
Pinkus like malignant dwarf from: VB 222
Lwyarch the Old NJ muses on Celtic legends: VB 7
"McAndrew's Hymn" (Kipling) Moreland on lifestyle of RAF PR in India: BDFR 128-9
"Macbeth" Matilda's dress: HSH 95
"Medea" (de Tabley) Le Bas's enthusiasm for minor Victorian poets: MP 67-8
"Miscellaneous Equities" Bernard Shernmaker's collected reviews: BDFR 132, 254
"My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (Sonnet 130 Shakespeare) – Dr Brightman's hair: TK 23
"Moss off a Rolling Stone" one of the many post-war autobiographies which NJ has to review: BDFR 7
"Les Mystères de la Main" (Desbarrolles, 1859) Mrs Erdleigh applies to Pamela Flitton: MP 140
"Never to the Philistines" novel by St John Clarke see Clarke, St John
"The Newcomes"- Sunny Farebrother as Colonel Newcome: QU 78; SA 190
"New History" (Ptolemy Chennus) Dr Brightman and Candaules' Queen: HSH 56
"The New Inn" (Jonson) Quoted by Moreland on Modernism: BDFR 128
"Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens) St John Clarke holds forth to Blanche on: CCR 96
novels by NJ:
first published: AW 29, 187
changing reactions to show passage of time: BDFR 81
admired by:
Norman Chandler: CCR 139
St John Clarke: AW 29; CCR 81-3
Mrs Foxe: CCR 139
Ada Leintwardine: BDFR 24
Quiggin: AW 126
Lady Warminster: LM 207; CCR 81
also mentioned in conversation with:
Bagshaw: BDFR 40
Mrs Erdleigh: AW 21, 29
Major Finn: SA 94-5
Audrey Maclintick: CCR 115
Sillery: AW 119; BDFR 14, 24
Widmerpool: AW 187
the wife of the Donners-Brebner director: HSH 96
"Nineteen Eighty Four" (Orwell) NJ finds Hlava's optimism about Russia chillingly like: MP 220
"Oblomov" (Ivan Goncharov, 1859) fittingly read by bed-ridden Trapnel: BDFR 204, 215
"The Old Curiosity Shop" (Dickens) Glober and NJ on Tokenhouse's company premises: TK 72
"The Old Man and the Sea" (Hemingway) Isobel and the frustrations of crayfishing: HSH 7
"The Old School List" (JK Stephen, 1891) – quoted by Le Bas at the Old Boys' dinner: AW 196-7
"Oliver Twist":
Mr Deacon as possible Fagin: CCR 23
Trapnel on Naturalism and: BDFR 229
"On his Drinking a Bowl" (Rochester) disapprobation of army life: MP 187
"Orlando" (Woolf) General Conyers on: LM 82-3
"Orlando Furioso" (Ariosto) central to theme of HSH:
and NJ:
read by:
whilst researching for book on Burton: HSH 31
Harington's translation years later: HSH 31
linked by to Trapnel in respect of genre: HSH 33
plot summarised: HSH 31-3
quoted: HSH 34
related to:
theme:
Orlando as prototypical drop-out: HSH 32, 111
the Valley of Lost Things: HSH 32-3, 35-7, 229
Time at work: HSH 33-4, 49
and Poussin's "Dance to the Music of Time": HSH 33, 161
characters:
St John Clarke: HSH 36-7
Ada Leintwardine: HSH 36-7
Matilda: HSH 49
Murtlock: HSH 33-4, 111, 161
Pamela: HSH 110
Dr Trelawney: HSH 35-6
Widmerpool: HSH 110-11, 161
"O singer of Persephone" (Theocritus, trans. Wilde) Stringham quotes: QU 43
"Othello" the negro at Mrs Andriadis's party: BM 126
"Paper Wine" LO Salvidge's first volume of collected essays:
and Trapnel's decline:
NJ takes copy in response to Pam: BDFR 202, 205
Trapnel's failure to produce review: BDFR 226-7; TK 28-9
part of Salvidge's successful period: BDFR 254
"Paradise Lost" Mr Deacon's love of: BM 10
"The Passing of the Third Floor Back" (Jerome K Jerome, 1907) – NJ imagines Bagshaw as: TK 191
"Peer Gynt" Stourwater like: BM 211
"The Perfumed Garden" (Sheik Nefzaoui):
amongst Uncle Giles's belongings: KO 163-5
NJ gives to Bob Duport: KO 184-5
"Pericles" (Shakespeare) – Mr Deacon applies to picture-framing: HSH 228
"The Philosophy of Poverty" (Proudhon, 1847) Bagshaw on his stepdaughters: TK 200
"The Pied Piper" (Browning) Shuckerley's dismissal of Shernmaker: TK 106
"The Pilgrim's Progress" (Bunyan) the approach of Apollyon:
Moreland and NJ remember fear of from childhood: HSH 216
NJ reminded of by Murtlock at Stourwater: HSH 216
"Pindarique Odes" (Cowley) NJ quotes whilst thinking at Victory Day Service: MP 230
"The Pistons of our Locomotives Sing the Songs of Our Workers" Russian novel pub. by Q&C: BDFR 152, 253
"Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling) admired by M Dubuisson: QU 115
"Pogrom of Youth" Widmerpool's book on the alternative society: HSH 42, 97
"Polyhymnia" ["His golden locks..."] (George Peele, 1556-96) – nostalgia of Sir Gavin Walpole-Wilson: BM 233
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce) – typical subject of Trapnel monologues: BDFR 160; HSH 81
"Preparatory Exercises" (Nicholas of Damascus) Dr Brightman and Candaules' Queen: HSH 56
"The Prisoner of Zenda" (Anthony Hope, 1894) – possible source of Flavia's name: MP 63
"Profiles in String" Trapnel's doomed second novel see Trapnel, X
"I Promessi Sposi" (Manzoni, 1825-7) – Moreland applies to Donners and Matilda: TK 276
"Prometheus Unbound" (Shelley) – Crowding on Trapnel's reappearance in "The Hero of Acre": TK 35-6
"Public School Verse" anthology in which Members' poem is published: QU 171, 195-6
"Puck of Pook's Hill" Gwatkin inspired by "A Song to Mithras": VB 63, 96-7, 240; SA 18; HSH 125
"Purged Not in Lethe" one of the many post-war autobiographies which NJ has to review: BDFR 7
"Quo Vadis" (Sienkiewicz, 1896) – example of the old classical taste: LM 168-9
"Resurrection" image of moment of crucial change: LM 71
"Remembrance of Things Past" (Proust):
NJ reading: MP 73, 124-5, 151
Princess de Guermantes' party reminds of Prince Theodoric: MP 124-5
NJ moved by identification of Cabourg with Balbec: MP 172-3
"His Reminiscences of Regency and Victorian Life" (Gronow) on first Earl of Warminster: BDFR 50
"The Renaissance" (Pater, 1872) – Pennistone on La Gioconda and Civil Affairs: MP 120
"The Revenger's Tragedy" (Tourneur, 1607):
provides epigraph for Gwinnett's book on X Trapnel: HSH 68
Moreland enjoys quoting from: HSH 68
"The Roaring Girl" (Middleton & Dekker) Delavacquerie enjoys reading in Gwinnett's copy: HSH 2212
"Robinson Crusoe" Stringham on Kenyan servants: QU 54
"Romeo and Juliet" NJ fantasises on Widmerpool and Gypsy Jones as: BM 178
"Te Deum" at Victory Day Service: MP 231
"The Rosary" (Florence L Barclay, 1909) Maclintick uses as exemplar of modern novels: CCR 204-5
"The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám":
quoted by Stringham when drunk:
after Le Bas's dinner: AW 213
to Audrey Maclintick: CCR 164; TK 254
Uncle Giles on the nomadic life: KO 144
Colonel Hogbourne-Johnson has written parody of: SA 203
Moreland puns on "vintage": TK 254, 279
"Russia's Productive System" part of Erridge's out-of-date collection: BDFR 75
"Sad Majors" Odo Stevens's memoirs of the Balkans see Stevens, Odo
"Sanders of the River" (Edgar Wallace, 1911) read by Templer: QU 48
"Satyricon" (Petronius):
officers' demeanour at Brussels recalls Trimalchio: MP 175
X Trapnel:
on Naturalism and: BDFR 229
Quotes regularly: HSH 81
"The Scholar-Gypsy" (Matthew Arnold):
Mark Members' pose as: AW 127, 130
Bagshaw sees Trapnel gazing at the BBC windows: TK 30
"Secretions" LO Salvidge's second volume of collected essays: BDFR 254
"Servitude et Grandeur Militaire" (Alfred de Vigny, 1835):
Pennistone reading: VB 114-6, 120; SA 27
touchstone for the nature of the soldier's life: VB 114-6, 120, 181, 243-4, 246; SA 27
Sherlock Holmes volume of in Moreland's flat: CCR 11
"Signe" (Apollinaire, 1913) Moreland quotes: CCR 56
"Some Things that Matter" (Lord George A Riddell, 1922):
being read by Uncle Giles at dinner: QU 223
virtually last words of QU: QU 223
"Sleeping Beauty" Jacky Bragadin's palazzo: TK 119
"Slow on the Feather" one of the many post-war autobiographies which NJ has to review: BDFR 7
"A Song to Mithras" see "Puck of Pook's Hill" above
Sonnet 107 NJ quotes in attempt to puncture Murtlock's superiority: HSH 22
"Sorrows of Satan" (Marie Corelli) one of four books in Stonehurst dining room: KO 63
"Stella Maris" (Arthur Symons, 1894) Ada Leintwardine on Evadne Clapham's coiffure: BDFR 148
"A Stockbroker in Sandals" one of the many post-war autobiographies which NJ has to review: BDFR 7
Stubbs's Charters being studied by NJ: QU 216
"Sunday Morning" ("An American poet" Wallace Stevens) Delavacquerie on Gwinnett and Death: HSH 73
"Sweetskin" see Kydd, Alaric
"Tales of Hoffman" St John Clarke dressed like Struwwelpeter: AW 137
"The Thin Man" (Dashiell Hammett, 1934) – read by bed-ridden Trapnel: BDFR 204, 215
"The Three Musketeers" NJ thinks of the original D'Artagnan at Maastricht: MP 188
"Through the Looking-Glass" and NJ's passage to a soldier's life: SA 5-6; MP 247
"Time and Western Man" (Wyndham Lewis, 1927) Chandler reading: CCR 48, 50
"Tomlinson" (Kipling) – and the headless figures in the tailor's shop: SA 7
"The Tempest" Mr Deacon as Prospero: BM 14
"To Marguerite" (Matthew Arnold) – Div HQ and the Irish Sea: SA 22
"To WA" (William Ernest Henley) – Moreland teases Donners with: KO 127
"Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx" part of Erridge's out-of-date collection: BDFR 75
"Treasure Island" (Stevenson) Moreland on Glober as Long John Silver: TK 234
"The Triads" Dr Brightman famous for work on: TK 8; HSH 55
"Troilus and Cressida" (Shakespeare) punningly misquoted by Moreland: BDFR 130
"Ulysses":
Maclintick uses as exemplar of modern novels: CCR 204-5
X Trapnel on:
the concept of the character in novels: HSH 80
the superiority of the novel to autobiography: HSH 81
"Unburnt Boats" Quiggin's "fragment of autobiography": AW 126-7, 180; BDFR 13, 125
"Uncle Tom's Cabin":
Stringham on Kenyan servants: QU 54
Maclintick uses as exemplar of old-fashioned novels: CCR 204-5
unidentified Jacobean tragedies:
by Beaumont and Fletcher reading of reminds Gwinnett of Murtlock: HSH 157
by Tourneur Delavacquerie reads: HSH 222
Gwinnett quotes in his acceptance speech: HSH 100
"Venetian Life" (William Daen Howells, 1866) Gwinnet recommends: TK 66-7
"Vicar of Wakefield, The" (Goldsmith) – accidental irony on destruction of Trapnel's manuscript: BDFR 235
"Vitae Lampada" (Newbolt) – NJ flippantly comforts Gwatkin with: VB 190
"Un Voyage à Cythère" (Baudelaire, 1857) – Moreland on Stourwater: KO 142
"War and Peace" (Tolstoy) Horaczko's cavalry exploits reminiscent of: MP 32
"War Never Pays!" pamphlet hawked by Mr Deacon and Gypsy Jones: BM 90, 95-6, 98, 106, 116, 136, 156, 158-9, 176; AW 103; CCR 16;: BDFR 52
"The Wife of Candaules" (Theophile Gautier) Br Brightman on: TK 83, 95
"Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship" (Goethe) Members quotes in enticing NJ to Venice: TK 11
"The Waste Land":
Barnby sees as epitomising highbrow literature: CCR 37
and the blitz over Belfast: SA 21
the Thames in wartime reminds NJ of: MP 118, 154
wedding toast Quoted by Dicky Umfraville at wedding of Clare and Sebastian: HSH 184
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