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Eliot's Four Quartets
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:06 am
by peter
Thinking of giving this a go. Has anyone read them?[/i]
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 4:49 am
by Avatar
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
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2017 6:15 pm
by peter
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!
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 4:44 am
by Avatar
Haha, I suppose I should read them at least.
--A
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:44 pm
by peter
Well, if you can spare the two minutes or so Av!
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 4:56 am
by Avatar
Y'know, Macavity was the first poem I ever memorised, for an eisteddfod when I was 8.
--A
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 6:42 am
by peter
One of my favorites! I loved that book of cat poems from which Macavity comes and from which the musical Cats was taken.