T. S. Eliot - Four Quartets (Read by Jeremy Irons)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- 00:00 Burnt Norton
11:23 East Coker
27:49 The Dry Salvages
45:21 Little Gidding
Full reading of a set of poems first published between 1936 and 1942, and published together as Four Quartets in 1943.
I listen as I read along.
That's a great way to study this piece of work.
absolutely gorgeous reading !🥇
Irons is wonderful.
Beautifully read. The voice itself is magical - unlike Eliot's reading! 😢
Jeremy Irons' reading of 'Four Quartets' is as much of a great contribution to poetry as T. S. Eliot's writing of it.
I wish Jeremy should read more of great modern poetry.
You may enjoy his recording of 'The Return of the Native' by Thomas Hardy. He is the perfect voice, for rendering the dark and sombre majesty of the heath.
ten lines in and this is INCREDIBLE.
I wish I could have this man 😔
Very nice thank you sir! 👍 👍
Thanks.
I always liked Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock
My love voice
A very accomplished recitation.
Also read by Jeremy Irons:
T. S. Eliot - Poems (1920)
ruclips.net/video/M1JyF5lYfgY/видео.html
O dark dark dark
They all go into the dark
My favorite poem by Eliot, along with Ash-Wednesday. A fine reading, but I prefer Eliot's deadpan.
It's great that Eliot recorded quite a few of his poems. It would be hard to argue that anyone has outdone his own reading, but I like this one for its clear recording and the pacing which allows one to reflect a bit more on certain words/parts, imo.
22:55
Yabba Dabba !!
'Descend lower', a tautology, I think.
Love love Irons' voice but I cannot understand when one poem begins and ends with such a monotone reading. It's sadly a pass for me. Perhaps when I get a copy of the Four Quartets I'll come back for a second or third reading together.
Hmm, he could perhaps have paused for a bit longer when introducing a new poem, but just knowing the titles beforehand should do the trick, I would think. I've listed and timestamped them in the description. I will add that these poems go together more or less like one four-part poem. But of course reading the work before hearing it is never a bad idea.
@@Vingul I was trying to listen to it while going to sleep. I was not paying any attention to the screen, that's why I didn't see the titles for each chapter either. But yeah, I agree the pause between each chapter should've been longer! I'll get the book for Christmas though (:
@@lilacheaven222 Nice, enjoy! :-)
I don't know if I'd call Irons' reading "monotone." Calm, perhaps -- not much unlike Eliot's own reading, or Alec Guinness (or, for that matter, Yeats of his own poems, or many other readings by poets). The reader doesn't need to add some unnecessary *extra* animation which would only distract from the text itself. That might work for "slam poetry" or whatnot, but that would seem oddly out of place here.
Can someone give me a time stamp for the "flowers that have been looked at"?
1:47
@@Atom1990-m2j Thank you!
You probably know of Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar as well
I didn't, but the first article that comes up when looking it up is very interesting, ha. I'm not really well read when it comes to Eliot. Always liked your screen name btw. Very good.
@@Vingul thanks, total philosophical/cultural war lol.
He was friends with Ezra Pound who wrote Canto XLV another good poem that’s in some ways similar. Ezra Pound was in jail with Emmett Till’s father in Italy during WWII and Bob Dylan wrote a song about Emmett. Yeah that issue is very interesting, we’re watching the unfolding of a massive saga and I’d love to see how the saga ends at the End Days, who was right and who was wrong, very strange. They could be the ones that are right, idk
@@voltairedentotalenkrieg5147 Haha. Aye, I knew about Pound being jailed with Till's father in Italy (and the treatment Pound had in that cage etc, horrible). Also that Pound whittled The Waste Land down to what we now have, but I haven't read that yet either (to my shame, I know).
If by "they" you mean who I think you mean, I'm pretty confident they are not in the right ;)
Stop with the ads in between please
I can’t do anything about that, I haven’t monetised the channel. Sorry to hear that you get ads. I can only recommend you get AdBlock but I’m afraid it doesn’t work if you’re listening on a phone.
Ads disappear with a Premium YOUTube description. Well worth it
Just PAY the 5¢ and stop bitching and moaning......Cheers from Acapulco!