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Four Quartets

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, written just before and during World War II as meditations on humanity's relationship with time.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Four Quartets, TS Eliot's last great work which he composed, against a background of imminent and actual world war, as meditations on the relationship between time and humanity.

With

David Moody
Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at the University of York

Fran Brearton
Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast

And

Mark Ford
Professor of English and American Literature at University College London

Producer: Simon Tillotson

Jeremy Irons will be reading TS Eliot's greatest poems, from Prufrock to The Waste Land to Four Quartets, across New Year's Day here on Radio 4.

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49 minutes

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Thu 22 Dec 2016 21:30
91热爆 Radio 4

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LINKS AND FURTHER READING

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READING LIST:

Peter Ackroyd, T. S. Eliot (Simon & Schuster, 1984)

John Xiros Cooper, T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets (Cambridge University Press, 1995)

T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962 (first published 1963; Faber & Faber, 2002)

T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (first published 1943; Faber & Faber, 2001)

Helen Gardner, The Composition of Four Quartets (Faber & Faber, 1978)

Lyndall Gordon, The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot (first published 1998; Virago, 2012)

A. David Moody, Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet (first published 1979; Cambridge University Press, 1994)

A. David Moody (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

A. David Moody, Tracing T. S. Eliot鈥檚 Spirit. Essays on his Poetry and Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Christopher Ricks, T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (Faber & Faber, 1988)

Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue (eds.), The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Vol. I: Collected and Uncollected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2015)

Ronald Schuchard, Eliot鈥檚 Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art (Oxford University Press, 1999)

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Credits

Presenter Melvyn Bragg
Interviewed Guest David Moody
Interviewed Guest Fran Brearton
Interviewed Guest Mark Ford
Producer Simon Tillotson

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  • Thu 22 Dec 2016 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 4
  • Thu 22 Dec 2016 21:30
    91热爆 Radio 4

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