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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