On 26 September 1888 TS Eliot was born. Born in St Louis, Missouri, Eliot lived in England from 1914. Best known for his poems ‘The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock,’ ‘The Waste Land,’ and Four Quartets, Eliot also wrote plays and criticism, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Joyce and […]
Category archives: Significant Joycean Dates
On this day…25 September
On 25 September 1896 Joyce was appointed prefect of the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Belvedere College. The Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary was an association of students who were dedicated to showing special honour to the Virgin Mary. The sodality was overseen by a director, one of the Jesuit priests at […]
On this day…24 September
On 24 September 1926 Joyce suggested to Harriet Weaver that she might commission a piece for his Work in Progress. Joyce was writing from the Hôtel Astoria & Claridge in Brussels where he was staying as part of his tour of Belgium, taking in Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels as well as visiting the site of […]
On this day…23 September
On 23 September 1930 Joyce wrote to George Antheil about Cain. Earlier in September, Joyce had suggested to composer George Antheil that he write an opera based on Byron’s play Cain. On 23 September Joyce wrote in more detail about how he imagined the opera might work, but in the end the project came to […]
On this day…22 September
On 22 September 1926 Joyce visited the site of the Battle of Waterloo. Joyce spent two and a half weeks in September 1926 visiting Belgium, staying in Ghent in East Flanders, Antwerp, and Brussels. While in Brussels he went to visit the battlefield of Waterloo on 22 September. Joyce arrived in Ghent on 13 September […]