Sunday, 22 September 2013

T. S. Eliot - 125th anniversary of his birth (26th September)


T. S. Eliot was born on 26th September 1888, 125 years ago.
He was an American-born British poet, playwright, editor, literary and social critic.


He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, for his outstanding poetry.


Some of his best-known poems are:

- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
- The Wasteland ( 1922)
- The Hollow Men (1925)
- Ash Wednesday ( 1930)
- Four Quartets ( 1945)



Listen to the actor Leo Marks reading an excerpt from the poem Burnt Norton:



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