Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780007202638
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 0007202636
Label: HarperCollins Audio
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Audio
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: March 21, 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
Release Date: January 01, 2007
Studio: HarperCollins Audio

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Rating: - Only Eliot will do.
I used to listen to The Four Quartets on 12" vinyl, read by Eliot. Apart from the wonderful poetry, his very voice has echoed in my mind these past 30 years since I last heard the recording.

There are phrases which, in his reading, have stayed with me: "human kind can not bear very much reality", "all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well." "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first ... Read More

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Rating: - Never fails
This may sound curmudgeonly, but listening to T.S. Eliot reading "Four Quartets" has almost never failed to put me to sleep, no matter how agitated I may be. Once his lugubrious voice hits "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future", I start to calm down, and I'm usually asleep soon after the end of the first stanza of Burnt Norton. It's truly amazing. Don't get me wrong, I love Eliot's poetry and am capable of appreciating it. But if you are spending hundreds on sleeping aids, ... Read More

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Rating: - THE VOICE OF THE POET
What an absolute joy it was to hear T S Eliot's own voice reading his poems which affected a whole generation during the Second World War and after and which have inspired students and readers ever since.
Although he tends to keep his voice dispassionate because of his belief that one must project one's own interpretation on the poems, it is still wonderful to hear him saying 'Da, Datta, Dayadavam' at the end of What the Thunder Said, and know that he is experiencing the peace which he describes.
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