T.S.Eliot Burnt Norton I and II

[bogorzelak]

Great reading. Thank you for uploading this. 

[Auroral3orealis]

I am studying English literature at university and am--most ardently--fascinated with literature. T.S.Eliot's poetry has been with me for as long as I can remember it; I am utterly in love with it. I swooned with delight listening to you read.

[vivascargill]

the opening lines remain impenetrable to me and I have worked on them many years--

Alec Guiness I think recorded the poems?

[TrillNoel]

aaah this is lovely! lol no idea how its in videos related to me but its a lovely find!

you fit the authors character in real life haha

anyways check out my new song

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[brychar66]

Thanks Trill :) Nice songs!

[TrillNoel]

lol thank you! yeah he has such inspiring quotes that can just be built on from this.

[1zangelique]

Ah--magnificent! Many cheers! Thunderous, thunderous applause! Thanks so much for this Charles. More Eliot someday please? You've completely ruined anyone else reading Eliot for me, gladly so ~~Gary

[cavafyinenglish]

Thank you Gary. Eliot & Yeats - my two best English moderns!

[andrewnorris1]

Thought I would have a look at your back catalogue and came upon this one. My first encounter with the 4 Qs was while at school. How lucky I was to have a teacher who inspired her students. The opening lines still haunt me and your reading only increases my awe and excitement. Great to find this one.

[brychar66]

Thanks Andrew. Now you know why "1000 Years" means so much to me.

[batemansk]

Muy bien joven, felicidades.

Lo lees mejor que el propio Eliot!

Barcelona

[peskirabbit]

Oh thank goodness someone reading Eliot without murdering it! Thank you!

[hhhaller]

very good reading of Eliot

[written12]

I'll say more in a couple of days, but I couldn't help smiling when you began reading. "Is this one of Charles' poems?" It has your hallmark seriousness with its lack of shyness about naming the abstractions- and bloodless ones they are not- you're trying to take hold of, but with all the musical pleasures of poetry.

Okay, so Eliot's more likely the influencer, you the influenced. But your success working in this vein is something those of us who've discovered your poetry can't help noting.

[brychar66]

I can't tell you how happy and flattered I am to hear that and how perspicacious (as always) you are. I wrote to Eliot sending him my first book of poetry something over a year before he died and telling him what a terrible struggle it had been to escape his influence. He said he found this 'charming'!

[megansspark]

the timelessness of poetry often awes me. The human experience, at its core, changes so little, for all our changes in culture.

[brychar66]

Indeed Shug. I listened to two readings of this on YT recently and it made me want to have a go! Eliot's cleverness never outshines his humanity.