T.S. Eliot Reads: The Wasteland, Four Quartets and Other Poem [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK] [UNABRIDGED] (Audio Cassette)

~ T.S. Eliot (Reader)

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The Poems:

• The Wasteland
• The Hollow Men
• Journey of the Magi from the Ariel Poems
• La Figlia che Piange
• Landscape: New Hampshite, Virginia, Usk, Rannoch, by Glencoe, Cape Ann
• Morning at the Window
• Difficulties of a Statesman from Coriolan
• Sweeney Among the Nightingales
• Whispers of Immortality
• Macavity: the Mystery Cat
• The Four Quartets
• Ash Wednesday
• A Song for the Simeon from the Ariel poems
• Marina from the Ariel poems
• Triumphal March from Coriolan
• O Light Invisible, from The Rock
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Portrait of a Lady
• Preludes
• Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service
• Murder in the Cathederal: Part II, Opening Chorus
• The Family Reunion: Part II, A Chorus

About the Author

T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) recast 20th century English poetry with a whole new vocabulary of technique, giving voice to a bold, vibrantly original Modernist style.  In addition to his poetry, his body of work includes many landmark critical essays, as well as plays such as The Cocktail Party and Murder in the Cathedral.  In 1948, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Caedmon; Unabridged edition (April 26, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0694522767
• ISBN-13: 978-0694522767
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #270,026 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eliot reads Eliot, October 9, 2005

By	Jae H. Lee "Conservative Catholic" (Palisades Park, NJ USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A. Walton Litz was right on the money after listening to Eliot read his "Waste Land," saying Eliot was essentially a dramatist. Why his poetry takes so well with those who normally don't read poetry. This selection is the most comprehensive of his live and studio recordings. Includes his experimental "Triumphal March from Coriolan" but does not include his brilliant but never-completed play "Sweeney Agonistes" (a play whose truncated rhythm, epilitism, and pauses proceeded both Beckett and Pinter by decades.)

In any case, how can we resist Eliot reciting in his own voice the lines:

"I was neither at the hot gates
Nor fought in the warm rain
Nor knee deep in the salt marsh, heaving a cutlass,
Bitten by flies, fought."