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The Wasteland & Four Quartets

by T.S. Eliot · 2003

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This audio recording brings together two long poems by T.S. Eliot, read aloud by a celebrated stage actor. The first is The Waste Land, published in 1922, a fragmented work that borrows voices from many cultures and periods to portray the disillusion of the post-war world. Its influence on twentieth-century writing has been enormous.

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Alongside it sits Four Quartets, a sequence of meditations on time, memory and faith, arranged as four poems that each take up a different thread of the same questions. Hearing the verses spoken by a single trained voice lets listeners follow their rhythms and shifts of tone, offering a fresh way into two of the most demanding poems of the modern age.

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