T. S. Eliot - Poems (1920) Read by Jeremy Irons

00:00 Gerontion
06:06 Burbank with a Baedeker, Bleistein with a Cigar
08:19 Sweeney Erect
10:25 A Cooking Egg
12:23 The Hippopotamus
14:36 Whispers of Immortality
16:33 Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service
18:13 Sweeney Among the Nightingales
Full audiobook reading / narration. Originally broadcast on Radio 4.

[@GOATPoets]

a bravura performance. Gerontion ... conversationally delivered - and with an appropriately exhausted expository style ... only J could hit that balance between the straightforward the subtle ... thank you for uploading this treasure.

[@MAZEMIND]

Thank you for this list. I will order this book too. Every book they start to complain about or want to edit. I do my best to buy a hard copy of.

[@slowboywhiteboardv4]

Jeremy Irons voice is so 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

[@Vingul]

Yeah, so kino ^^

[@Vingul]

T. S. Eliot - Four Quartets: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ql63maylrt1nsKMsi=xyy2OgKxDAQRdiHV This channel is nothing if not intertextual.

[@ErnaldtheSaxon]

“It is in Christianity that our arts have developed; it is in Christianity that the laws of Europe--until recently--have been rooted. It is against a background of Christianity that all of our thought has significance. An individual European may not believe that the Christian faith is true, and yet what he says, and makes, and does will all spring out of his heritage of Christian culture and depend upon that culture for its meaning...I do not believe that culture of Europe could survive the complete disappearance of the Christian faith. And I am convinced of that, not merely because I am a Christian myself, but as a student of social biology. If Christianity goes, the whole culture goes.” T.S. Eliot, Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards the Definition of Culture

[@drengr811]

Christianity was the very poison that held us back behind the psychological Rubicon.