- Title Pages
- For Gail
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 An Intellectual Sewer -
2 Homes of Virtue -
3 Harvard -
4 Oxford during the War -
5 The Chicago Experiment -
6 Lady of the Sonnets -
7 Death of the Prophet -
8 To the Center of Things -
9 Starting with a Bang -
10 Manhattan Love Stories -
11 Anti-Epithalamion -
12 To the Great Master -
13 Assessing the Modern -
14 A Millionaire in Red Vienna -
15 Teuton versus Francophile -
16 Barnes in Eruption -
17 Feuds Galore -
18 Annus Belli -
19 Freudless in Vienna -
20 Return of the Prodigal -
21 The Death of the Dial -
22 Thayer in Eclipse -
23 Postmortem - God, Stars, and Sea
- Bibliography
- Index
- [UNTITLED]
Homes of Virtue
Homes of Virtue
- Chapter:
- (p.7) 2 Homes of Virtue
- Source:
- The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer
- Author(s):
James Dempsey
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
Chapter 2 describes the Thayer's childhood hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts, when it was a powerful industrial center. Thayer's father was a large manufacturer of textiles and textile machines, and his parents were affluent. He attended Bancroft School, eventually moving on to Milton Academy, where he met T. S. Eliot. Thayer's father died unexpectedly when Thayer was 17, leaving his son a sizable fortune. Chapter 2 presents Thayer's memories of his childhood and discusses his early education, his reading, and the prizes he won.
Keywords: Bancroft School, T. S. Eliot, Milton Academy, textiles, Worcester, Massachusetts
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- Title Pages
- For Gail
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 An Intellectual Sewer -
2 Homes of Virtue -
3 Harvard -
4 Oxford during the War -
5 The Chicago Experiment -
6 Lady of the Sonnets -
7 Death of the Prophet -
8 To the Center of Things -
9 Starting with a Bang -
10 Manhattan Love Stories -
11 Anti-Epithalamion -
12 To the Great Master -
13 Assessing the Modern -
14 A Millionaire in Red Vienna -
15 Teuton versus Francophile -
16 Barnes in Eruption -
17 Feuds Galore -
18 Annus Belli -
19 Freudless in Vienna -
20 Return of the Prodigal -
21 The Death of the Dial -
22 Thayer in Eclipse -
23 Postmortem - God, Stars, and Sea
- Bibliography
- Index
- [UNTITLED]