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In Return To T. S. Eliotland writer and critic A.N. Wilson explores the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, T.S. Eliot.
Andrew Wilson has been reading and rereading Eliot for much of his life. Now from the halls of Harvard University to a Somerset village, via a Margate promenade shelter, he follows the spiritual and psychological journey that Eliot took in his most iconic poems.
From The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock to The Waste Land and from Ash Wednesday to Four Quartets, Wilson traces Eliot’s life story as it informs his greatest works. He travels to the places that inspired them, visiting the Eliot family’s holiday home on the Massachusetts coast, following him to Oxford where he met and rapidly married his first wife, the lively and bohemian Vivien Haigh-Wood, and on to London where he made his home and his name. He explores how Eliot’s realisation that he and Vivien were fundamentally incompatible and their resulting unhappiness influenced The Waste Land and examines how his subsequent conversion to Christianity coloured his later works, concluding his journey by visiting some of the key locations around which he structured his final masterpiece, Four Quartets.
Chock full of allusion, at times opaque and elliptical, Eliot’s poetry is widely regarded as complex and difficult - but here A.N. Wilson eloquently makes the case that grappling with it has immense rewards. In these works, Eliot takes on weighty ideas of time and memory and faith and belief, themes which Wilson argues have as much relevance today as during his lifetime. And whilst hailing his genius, Wilson does not shy away from confronting the discomforting and dark side of his work.
Andrew Wilson has been reading and rereading Eliot for much of his life. Now from the halls of Harvard University to a Somerset village, via a Margate promenade shelter, he follows the spiritual and psychological journey that Eliot took in his most iconic poems.
From The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock to The Waste Land and from Ash Wednesday to Four Quartets, Wilson traces Eliot’s life story as it informs his greatest works. He travels to the places that inspired them, visiting the Eliot family’s holiday home on the Massachusetts coast, following him to Oxford where he met and rapidly married his first wife, the lively and bohemian Vivien Haigh-Wood, and on to London where he made his home and his name. He explores how Eliot’s realisation that he and Vivien were fundamentally incompatible and their resulting unhappiness influenced The Waste Land and examines how his subsequent conversion to Christianity coloured his later works, concluding his journey by visiting some of the key locations around which he structured his final masterpiece, Four Quartets.
Chock full of allusion, at times opaque and elliptical, Eliot’s poetry is widely regarded as complex and difficult - but here A.N. Wilson eloquently makes the case that grappling with it has immense rewards. In these works, Eliot takes on weighty ideas of time and memory and faith and belief, themes which Wilson argues have as much relevance today as during his lifetime. And whilst hailing his genius, Wilson does not shy away from confronting the discomforting and dark side of his work.
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T.S.Eliot纪录片。一些课本里隐晦的八卦。关于四重奏、四元素、宗教的部分之前没有听过。
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2020年12月27日
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如果你很了解艾略特或者大概略有所闻,也许它不能给你新的信息,只能听听诗人保留在大气电波的声音、看看那些昔日的面孔、那些在文学史上有一席之位的地标的真面目以自娱。而对艾略特一无所知的人来说,不啻为一个很好的入门。对那些对命运际遇好奇的人,里面包含了些许八卦、些许造化弄人、些许概率难测。幸福的晚年时光,他不再写诗。最后这一句,怎么有点讽刺。文学与诗,无法出自平静无暇的时光。
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