Four Quartets

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.

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Guests

• David Moody No other episodes
  Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at the University of York
• Fran Brearton 4 episodes
  Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast
• Mark Ford 4 episodes
  Professor of English and American Literature at University College London

Reading list

• T. S. Eliot
  Peter Ackroyd (Simon & Schuster, 1984) Google Books →
• T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets
  John Xiros Cooper (Cambridge University Press, 1995) Google Books →
• Collected Poems 1909-1962
  T. S. Eliot (Faber & Faber, 2002) Google Books →
• Four Quartets
  T. S. Eliot (Faber & Faber, 2001) Google Books →
• The Composition of Four Quartets
  Helen Gardner (Faber & Faber, 1978) Google Books →
• The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot
  Lyndall Gordon (Virago, 2012) Google Books →
• Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet
  A. David Moody (Cambridge University Press, 1994) Google Books →
• The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot
  A. David Moody (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 1994) Google Books →
• Tracing T. S. Eliot's Spirit. Essays on his Poetry and Thought
  A. David Moody (Cambridge University Press, 1996) Google Books →
• T. S. Eliot and Prejudice
  Christopher Ricks (Faber & Faber, 1988) Google Books →
• The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Vol. I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
  Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue (eds.) (Faber & Faber, 2015)
• Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art
  Ronald Schuchard (Oxford University Press, 1999) Google Books →

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