Four Quartets
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss TS Eliot's Four Quartets, written just before and during World War II as meditations on humanity's relationship with time.
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.
With
David Moody
Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at the University of York
Fran Brearton
Professor of Modern Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast
And
Mark Ford
Professor of English and American Literature at University College London
Producer: Simon Tillotson
Jeremy Irons will be reading TS Eliot's greatest poems, from Prufrock to The Waste Land to Four Quartets, across New Year's Day here on Radio 4.
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
David Moody at the University of York
Fran Brearton at Queen's University Belfast
Mark Ford at University College London
T. S. Eliot Society of the United Kingdom
T. S. Eliot - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
READING LIST:
Peter Ackroyd, T. S. Eliot (Simon & Schuster, 1984)
John Xiros Cooper, T. S. Eliot and the Ideology of Four Quartets (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems 1909-1962 (first published 1963; Faber & Faber, 2002)
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets (first published 1943; Faber & Faber, 2001)
Helen Gardner, The Composition of Four Quartets (Faber & Faber, 1978)
Lyndall Gordon, The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot (first published 1998; Virago, 2012)
A. David Moody, Thomas Stearns Eliot: Poet (first published 1979; Cambridge University Press, 1994)
A. David Moody (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
A. David Moody, Tracing T. S. Eliot’s Spirit. Essays on his Poetry and Thought (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Christopher Ricks, T. S. Eliot and Prejudice (Faber & Faber, 1988)
Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue (eds.), The Poems of T. S. Eliot: Vol. I: Collected and Uncollected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2015)
Ronald Schuchard, Eliot’s Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Melvyn Bragg |
| Interviewed Guest | David Moody |
| Interviewed Guest | Fran Brearton |
| Interviewed Guest | Mark Ford |
| Producer | Simon Tillotson |
Broadcasts
- Thu 22 Dec 2016 09:00BBC Radio 4
- Thu 22 Dec 2016 21:30BBC Radio 4
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