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TS Eliot's doctoral thesis on FH Bradley whom Eliot largely saw as a religious mystic was not awarded soley because Eliot would never collect it in person. Some have speculated that Eliot was fearful of crossing the Atlantic from London to Boston during World War I, however, when Eliot was at the Think Tank at Princeton in 1955 writing The Four Quartets, he once again refused a trip to Boston. There is great speculation as to this. Whether this was an affront to Eliot or Harvard is not known by anyone. Eliot's early arrival in London was a difficult one. His future wife had evidently been suduced by Bertrand Russel and this had caused her a personal calamity. She sufferred a nervous breakdown shortly after Eliot and she married and this plagued her and him until her death. She was treated with regular doses of codeine and what was then described as "hysteria" may well have been panic-disorder. One invisions Eliot as a clerk at a bank when in fact he was a high ranking employee often sent to the continent to transact business. He once said of a man knowing of Eliot's next trip to France, "If he thinks I'm going to visit the Church Towns, he is sorely mistaken." Business was business with Eliot and remained so his entire life including his tenure at Faber and Faber Publishers. No writer is ascribed such greatness on such a small amount of work. FH Bradley's influence is seen through out every work of Eliot's and in --Davexxprice 05:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)The Four Quartets, the description of movement can be linked through Bradley to Aquinas who saw movement as one of the proofs of the existence of God.

David Price