Professor Jay Parini - T.S Eliot's Four Quartets: a pattern for Christian Living

Hosted by the Heythrop Institute for Religion and Society, Tuesday 24th May 2016

[@rd264]

I agree with Jays opener- Eliot was a very purposeful, deeply religious writer and his books his poems were christian purposed - and paradoxical - he grapples and appeals to me for that reason. If one is not grappling with the spiritual then one cant fully buy into Eliot. In contrast, I just read John Berrymans Dream Songs which i found pining on my bookshelf. He was not a spiritual man. Berryman' was bereft, he had only his talent, he wrote about his lovers, his friends and his depression. That was about it. It wasnt enough.

[@gbennett69]

beautiful

[@andrewsquitiro9028]

Good talk

[@kenneynicolecasas8092]

Thank youuu Sir Sobraaa

[@jmichaelortiz]

TSE would say to Prof. Parini: Go back, go back, to Aristotle.

[@purpledanny1958]

Too many digressions! I wish he would focus on the poem itself. Just too general comment. Not enlightening at all.

[@jmichaelortiz]

Nice talk; too much harping on fundamentalism; TSE would hold to dogma as a liberation; too critical of Fr. Hopkins.

[@jmichaelortiz]

Jesus had no pretensions? That's pretty obtuse.

[@gusposey8218]

Sheer lunacy.