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    Four Quartets: read by Ted Hughes

    Written by T. S. Eliot

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    Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot, read by Ted Hughes

    With its intricate structure and reverberative imagery, Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career. Its greatness is done full justice in this rendition by the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.

    Containing some of the most melodic passages in modern poetry, Four Quartets blends the religious, the philosophical and the personal themes that preoccupied T.S. Eliot, the four parts, Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages and Little Gidding are interconnected both by theme and symbol. A poem of war, of Christianity, of literature and of history, Four Quartets speaks for a whole generation and is an enduring masterpiece.

    Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He came to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

    Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children, including Moortown Diary (1979) . He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for both Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateJul 28, 2016
    ISBN9780571334322
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    Four Quartets: read by Ted Hughes
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    T. S. Eliot

    THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He moved to England in 1914 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

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