Eliot's Four Quartets

Post by **peter** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:06 am

Thinking of giving this a go. Has anyone read them?[/i]

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 4:49 am

Can't say I have actually. The Wasteland, obviously, always loved Macavity, don't seem to have read any of these for some reason though.

--A

Post by **peter** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 6:15 pm

But as far as Burnt Norton - the first of the four. Listened to a reading by Eliot himself on YouTube and was quite impressed. I'm sure I didn't begin to plumb it's depths, but on first hearing there were elements one could get fairly easily - the passage of time, the nature of love, art, and the creative process etc. I'd need to go back for round two to refresh my memory of it - but yes, worth the 20 or so minutes it takes to listen to ...... and very possibly the two years it would take to write a doctoral thesis on it!

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Jun 22, 2017 4:44 am

Haha, I suppose I should read them at least.

--A

Post by **peter** » Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:44 pm

Well, if you can spare the two minutes or so Av!

Post by **Avatar** » Fri Jun 23, 2017 4:56 am

Y'know, Macavity was the first poem I ever memorised, for an eisteddfod when I was 8.

--A

Post by **peter** » Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:42 am

One of my favorites! I loved that book of cat poems from which Macavity comes and from which the musical Cats was taken.

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Eliot's Four Quartets

Eliot's Four Quartets