Description
Product ID: | 9780571249596 |
Product Form: | CD-Audio |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Four Quartets |
Subtitle: | read by Ralph Fiennes |
Authors: | Author: T. S. Eliot |
Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
Description: | Select Guide Rating While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, 'Burnt Norton', 'East Coker', 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot''s career as a poet. While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry, its four parts, ''Burnt Norton'', ''East Coker'', ''The Dry Salvages'' and ''Little Gidding'', present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual, philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author. It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation, in the midst of war and doubt, that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece. |
Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2009-09-03 |