Our next meeting will be Oct. 7 where we'll pick up The Waste Land where we left off. Here's an audiolink to T.S. reading the poem.
Reading classical works aloud in Sarasota, and talking about them.
Showing posts with label T.S. Eliot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T.S. Eliot. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Friday, August 07, 2009
Stumbled upon via Serendip
Nun Appleton House
This looks to be a complete essay by T.S. Eliot on Marvell:
First published in the Times Literary Supplement, 31 March 1921, it begins:
The tercentenary of the former member for Hull deserves not only the celebration proposed by that favoured borough, but a little serious reflection upon his writing. That is an act of piety, which is very different from the resurrection of a deceased reputation. Marvell has stood high for some years; his best poems are not very many, and not only must be well known, from the Golden Treasury and theOxford Book of English Verse, but must also have been enjoyed by numerous readers. His grave needs neither rose nor rue nor laurel; ...
The wit of the Caroline poets is not the wit of Shakespeare, and it is not the wit of Dryden, the great master of contempt, or of Pope, the great master of hatred, or of Swift, the great master of disgust. What is meant is some quality which is common to the songs in "Comus" and Cowley's "Anacreontics" and Marvell's "Horatian Ode." It is more than a technical accomplishment, or the vocabulary and syntax of an epoch; it is, what we have designated tentatively as wit, a tough reasonableness beneath the slight lyric grace. ...
It will hardly be denied that this poem contains wit; but it may not be evident that this wit forms the crescendo and diminuendo of a scale of great imaginative power. The wit is not only combined with, but fused into, the imagination. More...
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Fall readings and schedule
Just a reminder that the texts for our reading this fall will include Samuel I and II and the beginning of Kings from the Old Testament.
An excellent edition of the entire epic tale is Robert Alter's The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel.
The text of the Eliot recommended by Paul is the The Waste Land, Norton Critical Edition.
First meeting will be Wed., Sept. 3, 1 - 3 p.m. at the Fruitville.
All meetings WEDNESDAYS 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M.
September 3
September 10
September 24
October 1
October 8
October 22
November 5
November 26
December 3
December 10
December 31
An excellent edition of the entire epic tale is Robert Alter's The David Story: A Translation with Commentary of 1 and 2 Samuel.
The text of the Eliot recommended by Paul is the The Waste Land, Norton Critical Edition.
First meeting will be Wed., Sept. 3, 1 - 3 p.m. at the Fruitville.
All meetings WEDNESDAYS 1:00 P.M. to 3:00 P.M.
September 3
September 10
September 24
October 1
October 8
October 22
November 5
November 26
December 3
December 10
December 31
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