Four Quartets
22 Dec, 2016
820 English and Old English literatures
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.
Guests
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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
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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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Hello (First sentence from this episode)
Hello, Four Quartets is TS Eliot's last great poem which he began in the years leading up to the Second World War and completed while London was still being bombed and he was a fire warden watching at night for burning buildings.