Hi friends, I wish to join the Eliot list at Missouri. What is the site so I can sign up????? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Montgomery" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 5:39 PM Subject: Re: Japanese Scholarship > Thank you very much. > I have forwarded your kind response to the Eliot list at Missouri > for its information, and with a query as to how the > article might be obtained. If I find out, I will report > back here. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: C&A Chapman > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: 2004-Sep-30 5:56 AM > Subject: Japanese Scholarship > > There is a very interesting essay by Song- Kyong Lee entitled, 'The > Eastern Spiritual World and the Dramatic Works of T.S. Eliot with > Special Reference to Murder in the Cathedral' that approaches this > subject. Lee describes the influence of the noh on Eliot's play through > his contact with Pound and by extension Yone Noguchi and Sarojini > Naiddu. According to Lee the necessary precursor to 'Murder' was Yeats' > attempt at noh, 'At the Hawk's Well,' which was performed at Lady and > Sir Bache Cunard's London home on April 2, 1916. Michio Ito danced the > role of the hawk. In the same year Pound edited and published > Fenollosa's manuscripts. (I would be interested to know more about the > fine grains of the timing here.) Pound is said to have brought Eliot to > this performance. I can't say whether Yeats was also there. I hope this > helps! > > Chris