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
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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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