Abstract

In the late 1960’s I found myself in a brief correspondence with T.S. Eliot, whom I didn’t know, on the subject of the reissue of his PhD thesis. Anne Bolgan, who edited the thesis for publication, was working closely with me, and she was our intermediary. Eliot found the task of returning to something that was so distant in his past, so remote from his present concerns, very daunting. Bradley was for him, he wrote to me, an “after-image”. In preparing this talk, I have often thought back to this remark. For me too Bradley is an after-image. Please bear that in mind.