Hamlet (film), 49
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 230
Hammett, Dashiell, 256
Hampshire, Stuart, 200
Handel, George Frideric, 273
Hardy, Thomas, 126, 151–52, 179, 190, 258, 259, 341
Harris, Julie, 15
Hartley, L. P., 126, 127
Harvard University, 59, 164, 179–80, 246, 296, 324
Harvey, William, 33
Hastings, England, 149
Haydn, Hiram, 271, 374, 375–76, 376–77, 388, 389
Haydn, Michael, 388
Haydn, Mary, 388
Heap, Peter, 100, 245, 260 (illus.), 261, 342
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 370
Hecht, Anthony, 388
Hellman, Lillian, 350, 351
Hemingway, Ernest, 111, 154, 256, 258, 315, 338, 359, 360, 384–85
Henry VIII (Shakespeare), 281–82
Herbert, George, 42, 140
Hertford College, Oxford University, 43
Highfield, Roger, 131–32, 234
History of the World, A (Roberts), 132
Hoad, Lew, 155
Holden, William, 292
Holland, 174–76
homoerotic poetry, of Shakespeare, 158, 242
homosexuality
Auden and, 137, 141, 227, 230, 242, 276
Cecil’s discussion about love and, 127
friends while teaching at Duke and, 355–56
Gielgud’s openness about, 263–66, 367
graduate students at Duke and, 356–58
Oxford undergraduates and, 194
among Price’s family, 223
Price on, 366–67
Price’s first erotic relationship with Matyas and, 261–62, 268
Price’s interest in straight men and, 241–42
Queen’s Irish Guards and, 273–74
Spender and, 201, 209–10
Wolfenden Report on, 277
writers and, 127, 193
writing and physical intimacy and, 268–69
honors thesis, Duke University, 24, 40
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 277, 279, 380
Hungary, 198
Huxley, Aldous, 126, 314
Hyndman, Tony, 210–11, 221
Idomeneo (Mozart), 149
Inferno (Dante), 68, 74
“In Praise of Limestone” (Auden), 143
Irving, Sir Henry, 265
Isherwood, Christopher, 347
Italy
Price’s desire for another trip to, 224
Price’s trips to Florence, 52, 54, 65, 66, 68–74, 81, 89, 120
Price’s trip with Jim Griffin to, 75–93
Price’s trip with Michael Jordan to, 103, 104, 105–20, 110 (illus.)
Welty’s trip to, 56 (illus.)
Ivanov (Chekhov), 237
Jackson, Bill, 27, 28, 30, 31–32, 36, 146, 147, 381
James, Henry, 190
Jamestown, Virginia, 254, 306
Jamison, Rex, 23, 26, 98, 144
jazz, 39, 108–09, 125
Jazz Club di Venezia, 108–09
Jefferson, Thomas, 2–3
John XXIII, pope, 113
John of the Cross, St., 32
Johnson, Samuel, 121, 122, 279
Jones, Howard Mumford, 181
Jordan, Anne
Price and son’s visits with, 147, 154, 155, 198, 223, 238–39
Price’s visits with, 240, 241, 390
Jordan, Michael, 162 (illus.), 192 (illus.)
Brighton visit with mother of, 147, 154, 155, 198, 223, 238–39
close friendship with, 58, 93, 100–101, 162, 173, 193–94, 239, 241, 254, 293, 332–33
driving trip on the Continent with Price and, 135, 158–77
first meeting with, 38–39, 194
local road trips with Price, 102, 134–35, 147, 148 (illus.), 149, 150–51, 239
Oxford studies of, 132, 179, 213, 218, 220, 230, 233–34
possible attraction to, 101, 146, 193
Princeton fellowship for, 219, 230, 241, 253–54, 294, 332, 342, 345
social activities with, 49, 54, 63, 218–19, 230
trip to Italy with, 103, 104, 105–20
trips to London with, 64, 66, 125
twenty-first birthday celebration for, 144–46
Oxford lodgings and, 135–37, 155, 177, 179, 181, 186, 187, 191, 192 (illus.)
Joyce, James, 243, 258
Kallman, Chester, 136, 138, 139, 141, 142, 144
Karajan, Herbert von, 105
Kaufman, Wallace (Wally), 322, 347, 349–51, 352–54, 353 (illus.), 382–83, 391 (illus.)
Keats, John, 380
Keble College, Oxford University, 48
Khrushchev, Nikita, 109–11, 123, 198, 295
King, Martin Luther, 67
King Lear (Shakespeare), 49–51, 65, 265, 280, 369, 372
Kinsey, Alfred, 23
Kirk, Stella, 148 (illus.), 160
Kirkby, Jack, 137, 155, 179, 181, 183–85, 186, 188, 191, 192, 196, 219, 224–25
Kirkby, Win, 137, 155, 179, 181, 183–88, 186 (illus.), 188, 191, 192, 196, 197, 219, 223, 224–25, 230, 234, 247–48, 249, 390
Kirkham, Dr., 48
Kitt, Eartha, 167
Knowles, John, 338
Koestler, Arthur, 314
Kolve, Del, 22–23
Korean War, 84, 168
Kristol, Irving, 202
Labour Party, 60, 184, 187, 230, 247
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 348
Langland, William, 128
Larkin, Philip, 279
La Scala, Milan, 105–06
Last Judgment, The (Michelangelo), 118
Last Supper, The (Leonardo), 106–07
Lawrence, D. H., 126, 258, 336, 341, 348
Lawrence, T. E., 154
“Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love” (Auden), 143
Lean, David, 236
Leander, Birgitta, 166
Learning a Trade (Price), 334
Leavis, F. R., 46
Lehman, Rosamond, 231
Leigh, Vivien, 50 (illus.), 51, 217, 228, 235–37
Leishman, J. B.
anti-American attitude of, 61
appearance of, 40–41
first meeting with, 39–41
lack of meetings with, 66–67, 95, 97
second meeting with, 58
Le Nozze de Figaro (Mozart), 171
Leonardo da Vinci, 71, 73, 106–07
Les Troyens (Berlioz), 220
Lewis, C. S., 39, 137, 186, 285, 286
Liddell, Alice, 189
Lie Down in Darkness (Styron), 124
literature
discussions with Cecil on, 126–27, 151, 152, 190, 208, 341
discussions with Coghill on, 127–29
lectures at Oxford on, 42–45, 98, 132, 190
Litvin (Spender), Natasha, 203, 210, 220, 221
London, England, trips to, 49, 100, 104–05, 125, 220, 228, 235, 250, 262, 272, 276–77
loneliness
feelings of, 100–101, 241
poem on, 20–21
Long and Happy Life, A (Price), 2
publishing of, 217, 294, 333, 376–80, 385, 390, 391
writing of, 259, 294, 305–06, 312, 339, 355, 366, 374
Longleat House, 144, 145, 146
Loomis, Bob, 375, 376
Lowell, Robert, 142, 346
Ludwig, Christa, 171
“Lycidas” (Milton), 275, 371
Lyell, Frank, 138
lyric verse, 157
Macaulay, Rose, 212
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 50, 51, 128, 280
McCarthy, Mary, 346
Macdonald, Dwight, 202
McNelly, Liz, 109, 110 (illus.), 111, 112, 113, 135, 169–73
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 259
Magdalen College, Oxford University, 144, 184, 226
Magic Flute, The (Mozart), 226
Mallam, Dr., 52
Mann, Thomas, 126
Manon Lescaut (P
révost), 132
Margaret, Princess, Countess of Snowdon, 147
Marlowe, Christopher, 14, 157, 230, 284
Martin, Violet, 128
Masefield, John, 277–78
Mathiessen, Peter, 146
Matyas, 262, 266, 267, 268, 269, 276–77, 278, 279, 281, 282–83, 294, 333, 343, 382, 390
Maugham, Somerset, 256
Maupassant, Guy de, 126
May, Henry, 310–11, 335, 345, 383
Mayr-Harting, Henry, 28–29, 31, 38, 101
Medici Chapel and Palace, Florence, 73, 120
Meistersinger, Die (Wagner), 220, 273
Melbourne, William Lamb, Viscount, 45
Member of the Wedding, The (McCullers, play), 15
Menapace, John, 156
Merry Wives of Windsor, The (Shakespeare), 49, 62
Merton, Walter de, 26
Merton College, Oxford University
anti-American attitudes at, 61
arrival and first day at, 27–37
campus and gardens at, 32
car purchase while attending, 101–02
commemoration ball at, 62–64
daily life in rooms at, 27, 30–32, 34–35
evenings at, 36–37
final days at, 283–93
food served at, 30–31, 51–52, 58–59, 100
friendship with faculty members at, 131–34, 258
health during attendance at, 47–49, 51–52, 54, 58, 100–101, 247–48, 249
important graduates of, 26–27
initial doubts about life at, 37
Mob Quad residence at, 27–28, 29–30, 54
opinion of Brits initially met at, 41–42
plays and theatrical events attended at, 49–51, 54
plumbing and showers at, 27, 28, 30, 34, 64–65, 101, 381
postwar social changes at, 60
reading and studies at, 54–55, 58
scout Jackson at, 27, 28, 30, 31–32, 146, 147
sense of history at, 33
short stories written at, 55, 57–58
social life at, 58–61, 98–101
thesis approval and completion of program at, 270–71
winter’s dark, short days at, 47, 54, 93, 94, 224, 225
tutor Gardner at, 97–98, 129–31, 147, 194–95
tutor Leishman at, 39–41, 58, 61, 66–67, 95, 97
vacation lodgings during breaks at, 135–37, 155, 177, 179, 181, 186, 187, 191, 192 (illus.)
wit and humor at, 101, 133
metaphysical poetry, 140
“Michael Egerton” (Price), 57, 125–26, 182, 295, 311
Michelangelo, 71, 73, 85, 86, 88, 118, 333
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 128
Milan, Italy, 105–07
Milles, Carl, 166
Millo, Olga, 90, 92, 119
Mills, John, 236
Milton, John, 54, 55, 109, 128, 134, 138, 317, 371
Auden on, 274–75
Duke University honors thesis on, 24, 40
life of, 193, 279
Samson Agonistes of, 41, 86, 97, 179, 197–98, 309
temporary loss of Bodleian’s copy of a book owned by, 120–23
as thesis subject at Oxford University, 29, 36, 41, 70, 97–98, 130–31, 188, 289, 309
Misterfofelees (fraternity nickname at Duke), 14
Mitchell, Julian, 274, 345
Mob Quad, Merton College, Oxford University, 27–28, 29–30, 47, 381
Modarressi, Taghi, 320, 321
Modesti, Giuseppe, 159
Mont Blanc, as inspiration for a short story, 68, 70, 72
Monticello, 2–3
moral expectations of teachers, 347–49
moral fiction, 126
Morley, Sheridan, 263, 264–66
Morris, Willie, 59, 231–32
Moses (Michelangelo), 86
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 149, 171, 173, 214, 259
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 211
Munch, Edvard, 164
Munich, Germany, 135, 169, 171, 174
Murdoch, Iris, 200, 235, 390
Murray, Gilbert, 277
Mussolini, Benito, 68, 77
My Father and Myself (Ackerley), 19
National Gallery, Oslo, 164–65
NBC Symphony, 214–15
Nero, 77, 85, 86, 87
Nevelson, Louise, 351–52
New College, Oxford University, 43, 59, 125, 184, 200, 246, 274
New Criticism, 142, 357
New Theatre, Oxford, 49
New York City, 12, 13, 15, 350, 351
Norway, 160–66, 178
Nuttall, Anthony (Tony), 45, 94, 98, 121, 187, 230, 231, 244 (illus.), 245–46, 247, 248, 250, 258, 390, 391
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway), 384–85
Olivier, Laurence, 49, 50 (illus.), 51, 128–29, 228, 235, 236–37, 250, 280
“One Sunday in Late July” (Price), 355
On the Waterfront (film), 12
Orwell, Sonia, 212
Oslo, Norway, 160–66
Ostia, Italy, 86
Owen, Wilfred, 64
Oxford, England
Khrushchev’s visit to, 123
plays and theatrical events in, 49–51, 54
student life and activities in, 33–34, 58
young women and airmen meeting in, 227
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The, 40–41
Oxford Film Society, 38, 49
Oxford History of English Literature, The, 42
Oxford Magazine, The, 41
Oxford Playhouse, Oxford, 49
Oxford University, 2, 29. See also Merton College
American students at, 59, 67, 98, 102, 144, 195–96, 224, 226
Auden as Professor of Poetry at, 136, 137
lectures on literature attended at, 42–45, 98, 132, 190
plays and theatrical events at, 49–51
postwar social changes at, 60
qualifying exams at, 102–03
undergraduate and graduate degree system at, 35–36
voyage with other Rhodesters to attend, 11, 13, 15, 22–23, 24
Oxford University Examination Statutes, The, 35
Pakenham, Thomas, 185
Palatine Hill, Rome, 84–85
Palinurus (pseudonym for Connolly), 208
Pantheon, Rome, 88
Paradise Lost (Milton), 40, 54, 249, 372
Pardoner’s Tale, The (Chaucer), 371
Paris Review, The, 124, 146, 200, 202, 216, 237
Parker, Dorothy, 256, 257
Parker, Harold, 252, 370
Parker, Mary Lee, 307
Parks, Rosa, 67
Peacock, Phyllis, 370, 373
Pentimento (Hellman), 350
Phèdre (Racine), 365
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 147, 148
Philpot, Glyn, 283
Piazza della Signoria, Florence, 120
Picasso, Pablo, 213
Pietà (Michelangelo), 71, 73, 85
Pitti Palace, Florence, 73
Pius XII, pope, 86
“Place in Fiction” (Welty), 55
Plato, 70, 74, 80, 81, 86
Plimpton, George, 124, 238
poem, on loneliness, 20–21
poetry
Auden and, 137–41, 143
Blackburn at Duke University and, 157
Ponte Vecchio, Florence, 73, 81
Pope, Alexander, 380
Porter, Katherine Anne, 258
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce), 243
Potting Shed, The (Greene), 265, 272
Poulenc, Francis, 129
Powell, Anthony, 47
Power, Tyrone, 125
Prévost, Abbé, 132
Price, Bill (also called Will; brother), 81, 180 (illus.)
brother’s study at Oxford University and, 11, 13, 94–95
brother’s teaching at Duke and, 301, 330–31
letters to, 180, 191
li
fe after death of father, 25, 94
Price family and, 308
Price, Elizabeth (mother), 81, 180 (illus.), 192
Christmas visit with, 252, 253–54
concern about marriage age of son, 221
financial pressures on, 25, 95
health of, 179
letters to, 179, 180, 191
life after death of husband, 12–13, 25, 85, 94
as saleswoman, 331–32
son’s study at Oxford University and, 11, 13, 25, 94–95, 196–97, 221
son’s teaching at Duke and, 301, 311, 330–31, 383
Price, Martha Reynolds, 204
Price, Will (father)
Celtic background of family of, 181
close male friend of, 19
death of, 12–13, 22
drinking habits of, 12, 14
effect on Price of death of, 15, 21, 47–48, 52, 85, 115, 159, 191–93, 349
family’s financial state after death of, 25
Price on intelligence of, 208
Price’s short story themes and death of, 55, 58, 66
Princeton University
Jordan’s scholarship to, 219, 230, 253
Jordan’s visits from, 294, 342, 345
printing of Renaissance books, 42–43
Pritchett, V. S., 258
Prokofiev, Sergei, 100
publishing world, 217–18
Punch (magazine), 211
Quaintance, Dick and Charlotte, 324–25
qualifying exams for B.Litt, 102–03
Quayle, Anthony, 49
Queen Mother, 147, 148, 264
Queen’s Irish Guards, 273–74
Queen’s Rooms, Merton College, Oxford University, 32
Racine, Jean, 365
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford University, 218
Radio Free Europe (RFE), 109, 111, 170, 172, 173, 202
Radda, George, 198–99
Rake’s Progress, The (Stravinsky), 136, 138
Raleigh, Walter, 157, 279
Random House, 271, 294, 333, 374, 375
Real Charlotte, The (Somerville and Ross), 128
Rebel Without a Cause (film), 100
Redman, Joyce, 49
Redmayne, Pamela, 52–53, 62, 69, 74, 144–46, 155, 181, 190–91, 223, 226, 235, 247
Reed, Henry, 43, 129
Reilly, Howard, 144, 226
Rembrandt, 175, 289
Requiem (Verdi), 158–59
Rhine, J. B., 314
Rhodes, Cecil, 23
Rhodes Scholar, Price as
Blackburn’s support for, 155
costs not covered by the grant and, 25
De Voto on, 11, 296
periodic meetings with Warden Williams, 224
request for third-year funding in, 196–97
thesis approval and completion of program by, 270–71
Rhodes Scholars (Rhodesters)
choice of undergraduate or graduate studies by, 35–36
friendships at Oxford University among, 59, 226
Frost’s lecture and, 231
hospitality of and visits with Redmayne in Burford by, 53–54
qualifying exams and, 102