First of 14 instances of Grice in Aune's brilliant autobiography

by JLS
for the GC

From Aune's brilliant autobiography in Bayne's site (History of analytic philosophy):

Aune writes, p. 5:

"An example of the sort of issue I am attempting to describe is posed by the first
line of T.S. Eliot's poem, "Morning at the Window": the words are simple, the basic
syntax is prim and proper, but the sense of the line is decidedly obscure: "I am
aware of the damp souls of housemaids sprouting despondently at area gates."6
In opposition to the current dogma set forth in Wimsatt and Beardsley’s “Intentional
Fallacy,” I took the line, later made respectable by Paul Grice, that what
needs to be understood is the auth or’s intention in producing the relevant
words, what he or she was trying to accomplish my means of them."