Brilliant, I've learned so much! Thank you. Also, I wish David all the best in his new appoinrment in the U.S.

This is a deeply important analysis. Well worth listening to several times.

This adds such a wonderful perspective to the choices behind the unconventional harmonic progression!!

t s eliot is sort of the polar opposite of paul dirac and quantum mechanics ..... eliot celebrates obscurantism and purposeful befuddlement .... paul dirac slays confusion and chaos ..... people study paul dirac's work because of its imposed orderliness and mathematical clarity impressed onto reality .... people study t s eliot's work because of its concussed trainwreck bad-LSD-trip explanation of reality

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The interpretation would not be mine, but what a marvellous atmosphere you generate !

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u r marvelous janice

Great lecture. Thanks

A clear and engaging lecture. I must admit to having entertained a less than wholly appreciative attitude toward these late works of Eliot, sharing in George Orwell's view that they presented a falling off of inspiration. I'm nearing sixty, and have not looked at them in quite some while. Inspired by this lecture, I'm going to give them another go. So thankyou.

Brilliant! Highly simulating.

Thanks for posting this lecture. It is clear and delightful. I am not a not a poet. More like a Philosopher. Something I have dedicated my life. Something I share with Eliot.

Four Quartets refers to the late Beethoven Quartets such as opus 132. This work has five movements. Eliot is presenting four complete works in one book, but yes they also progress in order. The speaker here seems not to grasp that a single quartet is made of a number of movements from one to any number, and the word quartet refers to the number of performers, four.

It is my understanding that the four instruments being played, as implied in the term "quartet", are Air, Earth, Fire, and Water......the four elements that play together in order to create life and time.

I listen to the Alec Guinness reading of Four Quartets while riding long distance bicycle treks.

A very informative lecture.

Thanks for this lecture! An undergraduate degree in English Lit gives only the briefest sampling of this great poet's body of work. Now, decades later, I'm diving deeply into Four Quartets and enjoying every exposure. Like Dr. Eliot, we are now earnest, traditional Anglicans.

Love the Canadian accent. So charming!

Nietschze's Eternal Recurrence?

every time i listen i learn more -'-do not call it fixity' has been my refrain through over 50 years of research of our uniqueness & connectedness

If time is irredeemable, as said in Burnt Norton, there’s a certain peace and tyranny that come with that. There’s a felt communion with the moment when you accept and surrender to it, but for Eliot the past and tradition make the overwhelming swell of the present. It’s true he believes that the individual can creatively react with his cultural context, but that context really dictates what we can work with. If past present future are all one then everything is contained in the present and time is irredeemable. Believing that would create more of a tendency to lean into the past because it at least can be studied.

Beautiful, insightful, colourful, and inspirational presentation. Thanks! Dr Charles W Spurgeon

Superb exposition.

‘Appetite for beauty’ wow, thats what all human beings need. What a precious video this is

Wow, such a great lecture. I really appreciate it. It helps tremendously,

This was insightful. Thank you.

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11.40 "Arguably, it now takes faith to believe in reason."

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