I did, and requested a refund, because each poem is listed as a chapter, with no name, just numbering Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc. I strongly recommend not buying the digital version of this on Audible. It’s the most complete set of Eliot’s poetry, and the set is about 3:40 long. These works were originally recorded a few years ago for BBC Radio 4, and it’s very important that they are now published on CD. For The Waste Land, he is joined by Eileen Atkins, with whom he alternates parts of the poem. They are slow, measured, with a low, sometimes almost lugubrious voice, that suits the poetry very well. Alfred Prufrock and The Hollow Men to The Waste Land, which cemented Eliot’s position as one of the leading modernist poets in the English language, to the Four Quartets, Irons gives riveting performances of these works. (, Amazon UK)įrom early poems like The Love Song of J. There are a number of recordings of these poems, by Eliot himself, by Alec Guinness, and by Ralph Fiennes, but this recording of the Quartets, along with much of Eliot’s other poetry, sets a new standard. I’ve long been a fan of The Four Quartets, four long poems that Eliot wrote between 19, which were has last major works in verse. Eliot’s poetry is some of the finest of the 20th century.
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