...publish that quarterly review, at the beginning of 1939, he wrote that public disorder had induced in him a "depression of spirits so different from any other experience of fifty years"—a depression equal, apparently, to any private sorrow. There is not space here to try to penetrate...

...the Criterion, in January 1939, he had confessed that 'the present state of public affairs . . . has induced in myself a depression of spirits so different...any other experience of fifty years as to be a new emotion'.3 Then in March he concluded his lectures at Cambridge on The Idea of a Christian Society...

...7th with the following quotation from Eliot: "In the present state of public affairs — which has induced in myself a depression of spirits so different...other experience of fifty years as to be a new emotion — I no longer feel the enthusiasm necessary to make a literary review what it should be. This is...

...last editorial for The Criterion he said that the "present state of public affairs" had induced in him a "depression of spirits so different from any other...experience of fifty years as to be a new emotion." ' He was appalled that Britain had shown itself, as it appeared in the months before the war, incapable...