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442 J A M E S [ 1918]Episode Date of Completion Date of PublicationIV Calypso To Pound in March 1918 June 1918v Lotus-Eaters April (?) 1918 July 1918VI Hades To Pound in May 1918 September 1918VII Aeolus To Pound in August 1918 October 1918VIII LestrygoniansTo Pound October 25, 1918 Jan.-Feb.-Mar. 1919IX Scylla and October 1918-February 1919* April-May 1919xCharybdisWanderingRocksTo Pound February 1919 June-July 1919XI Sirens June 1919 Aug.-Sept. 1919XII Cyclops November 1919-March 1920XIII Nausicaa Begun Zurich in fall, 1919; toBudgen in February or March1920April-August1920XIV Oxen of the To Pound in October 1919; re­ September-DecembeSun written May 18, 1920 1920XV Circe To Pound in April 1921; writtenJune 1920-December 1920XVI Eumaeus February 1921XVII Ithaca February-October 1921XVIII Penelope January or February-October1921 (before Ithaca) tThe Little Review continued to publish Ulysses, although the threat ofpost office prosecution drew steadily closer. The book was making animpression, and occasionally it was mentioned in the reviews. T. S. Eliot,writing in the Athenaeum for July 4, 1919, about a new book of Yeats,remarked, 'Crudity and egoism' are 'justified by exploitation to the pointof greatness, in the later work of Mr. James Joyce.' Ezra Pound, alsosensing crudity, tried to persuade Joyce to abolish Bloom's flatulenceandother questionable elements in the book. In a letter dated Good Friday,1918, he said some accommodation must be made to legal authorities,^_j2ijt_added hopefully, 'Perhaps an unexpurgated text of you can be printedin a gftsek or bulgarian translation later.' He was worried about Joyce's\ 'arstheticj obsession, as he called it, yet otherwise Bloom roused him toerthttsfasm. So on November 22, 1918, he wrote, 'Bloom is a great man,* Joyce's manuscript which he sold to John Quinn has a note at the end of Scylla andCharybdis: 'End of first part of Ulysses,New Year's Eve, 1918.'t This table is mainly the work of A. Walton Litz, who has kindly authorized its usehere.