Spent most of my academic life immersed in Elizabethan, Renaissance, Romantic and Victorian literature. I am, in retirement, discovering Eliot. Let the journey begin.
Neither Eliot nor Pound make for ideal reciters of verse: Eliot sounding like a speaking clock, and Pound like a combatant drunk at 'throwing out time'. Just awful. This said, they were together the most brilliant poetic and literary minds of the twentieth century.
Spent most of my academic life immersed in Elizabethan, Renaissance, Romantic and Victorian literature. I am, in retirement, discovering Eliot. Let the journey begin.
I feel so lucky to have this kind of literary history "on tap" on TH-cam.
The reaction of the students to Eliot's imagery is more troubling than anything
he himself could concoct.
why?
Awesome story.
Parsifal, prelude act one:10.25. Everything seems to be interconnected and nothing separate
The wasteland is a place in Arthurian mythogy where the knights of the grail are imprisoned and disempowered. Hence the parsifal music
Wow is that Portishead in the background? ❤
Why did Pound declaim like that? IT's goddamned annoying!
Neither Eliot nor Pound make for ideal reciters of verse: Eliot sounding like a speaking clock, and Pound like a combatant drunk at 'throwing out time'. Just awful. This said, they were together the most brilliant poetic and literary minds of the twentieth century.
To paraphrase the critical comment made to Mozart "Too many words".
Readers Digest's Concise Wasteland and the Four Quartets might be an option ?
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I'm sorry but that reedy , bleating voice of his is completely unsuited to reading Poetry ! Even his own !?