The Waste Land, Four Quartets and other Poems
Read by T S Eliot
Resumen del libro
T. S. ELIOT READS THE WASTE LAND, FOUR QUARTETS AND OTHER POEMS by T. S. Eliot, Read by T. S. Eliot
It is always something of a revelation to listen to a poet reading his own words, and these tapes are no exception. Eliot clearly and evenly characterises and reveals the voices of some of his most important works in this excellent reading.
'The Waste Land' caught the imagination of the age with its powerful emotional impact. Eliot felt that the modern Western city had become a sterile desert wasteland, and in it life had become a sham pretence, with no content but stale conventionality.
The 'Four Quartets' express the poet's whole-hearted acceptance of the Christian faith. Each poem describes a meditation which leads to a reconciliation with the burden of the past.
Biografía del autor
Nacido en St. Louis (Missouri), aunque proveniente de una antigua familia puritana de Nueva Inglaterra, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) se instaló en Londres en 1915 y acabó adoptando la nacionalidad británica. En su labor poética, y con el apoyo de Ezra Pound, fue un pionero del vanguardismo y de las corrientes que dieron su impronta a la poesía moderna. Eje de la vida poética en lengua inglesa desde la publicación en 1922 de su poema "The Waste Land", la cumbre de su obra son los cuatro cuartetos (Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages y Little Gidding) que publicó sucesivamente entre 1936 y 1942 y fueron reunidos en un volumen en 1943.<br> T. S. Eliot recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1948.
