T.S. Eliot - BBC Arena Portrait 1/6
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
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Full version. This portrait/documentary tells the whole story of the life and work of T.S. Eliot including the happiness he found in the last years of life in his second marriage. His widow Valerie Eliot has opened her personal archive, hitherto unseen, including the private scrapbooks and albums in which Eliot assiduously recorded their life together.
This film brings an unprecedented insight into the mysterious life of one of the 20th century's greatest poets, and re-examines his extraordinary work and its startling immediacy in the world today. Thomas Stearns Eliot materialises as banker, critic, playwright, children's writer, churchwarden, publisher, husband and poet.
Contributors include Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Lady Spender, Jeanette Winterson, Christopher Ricks and Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
Thanks for making this excellent program available, T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets is one of my favorite poems.
I'm so glad that we study about him in Modern literature what an amazing guy
Thank you for this amazing documentary! We're proud to have his Waste Land published. He is one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.
THE Waste Land. Three words. Thx
In case anyone wonders, the harmonica music at the beginning is from Bob Dylan's 'Desolation Row' - an incredible and very eliotesque song.
Arthur Smythe My Chemical Romance also did a cover of it.
MCR Sucks and ruined the song.
@@closetfrerardway7698 why are you citing My Chemical Romance in a Eliot video and a Dylan song?
@@augustosarmentodeoliveira3023 Because they're a good band, y'all. Taste is subjective, after all.
@@DarkAngelEU there's almost nothing true about your comment. maybe its punctuation.
Very nice documentary film of Eliot.
Inspiring T.S. Eliot
Useful moving commentary with readings by Elliot, Seamus Heaney etc,
Four Quartets is the greatest poetic work of any era.
Yes, Eliot famously said "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them--there is no third." I'd say there is a third, and that he is it!
Is there still anything like this on BBC TV? 🌈🦉
no
bbc is all politically correct crap. has been so for years.
@@apolinary29 Thanks. And I'm sure there are more than two of us. Greets from London!
love the use of brian eno
बहुत अच्छा
Has anyone made a biopic about this guy? They should!
Tom and Viv (1994).
Subtitle would have been great. I can read English and i can understand it when i read it, i can even talk it (i obviously make some error, because i'm not english), but sometimes it's hard to understand some pronunciations, so the meaning of a sentence could be lost. However, thank you so much for this DOCU. I appreciate it very much.
I know, sir.
+Ketston please email me if you have trouble with your English
Perry L. Marrs
Only 1400 views and no comments yet. Come on, world, turn off American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, CNN, and whatever other drivel that may be draining your brain and find out why you're alive. "To arrive at where you are" you have to "get from where you are not." TSE.
Sounds profound but what does it even mean.
I believe Eliot feels there is a greater truth within that defies a ready description. He can only circumscribe it, referring to it as a "Shantih", the peace that goes beyond understanding, or as the "Stillness between two waves of the sea." That truth is where you are, even though other considerations cloud our heads and distract us from the truth within. So, to arrive at where we are (eternal inner peace), we have to get from where we are not (the distractions that preoccupy our minds.)
TomFoti My thoughts exactly
TomFoti May I say thank you for your beautiful post, such clarity for useful thought which will appreciate well...further on, as well, isn't that the kind of inspiration Mr. Elliott's works deposits for us!
I was thrilled the moment I'd randomly discovered "The Cocktail Party" and "The Four Quartets" and "Wasteland" (discovering the poet first in 2007!) after finding a rare and aged copy 1929!
His words were so instantly true and bewitching at the moment in history laid against that familiar sense impending apocalyptic concern yet so personally a dark and ironic wit and humor.
I said aloud addressing the poet: "you may have planned this eerie coincidence of circumstances...for plenty of us...you MUST have! A secret CULT!"
We Americans have to face transformation and it require our ability to quieten our minds to listen....not to leap ahead . ...linear vs. The cyclical. In apprehension of the nearing ages upon us all...
Thanks for the kind words. In the Four Quartets, when Eliot says, "the hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation," I think he's exposing the deepest root of who we are, and also in a way our direct connection to the infinite. It's such a vital concept; elemental to arriving at the kind of transformation you are talking about, and it also reveals an exciting and life-giving resource of energy that may be the wellspring we need in facing such troubling times.
The Fan fair of The Jellicles, Any Jellicle Cat would know That, It's The tune Played Just Before The Old Gumbie Cat, and The Apology Tune for Grizabella Just Before She's Sent Past The Russell Hotel, to The Heaviside Layer.
No mention of Esra Pound influence on Eliot.
Yes it is not very accurate for leaving that out which had a major effect given Pound edited the Wasteland and removed about 1/3 of it.
In the second part and the beginning of the third
il miglior fabbro.
I just wish there were good subtitles and not those automatically generated :'(
one of last great men of the West.
At 12:15, Sarah Churchwell is so mistaken in her portrayal of St. Louis in the early 1890s as a wild west town with swinging door saloons, etc. Unreliable at best…
Wasteland exhibits Eliot's wide range of studies of religion, literature, theology, history and blend of allusions with realism.
"summering around the cape" (12:45-50)....my dear! Cape Ann is NOT "the cape" (which is shorthand for Cape Cod) -- get your capes straight blondie!
consumed by either fire , or fire...
A great genius. A poet of impersonal poetry which is all about himself. A deeply racist man. Elitist. These are not criticisms.
1963
4:10 'Most important poet...' Really ? The way America courted Dylan Thomas and slobbered over him, hailing him the greatest. I will concede though I do like Eliots 'Wasteland' and the 'Hollow Men'.
Yeah, I sort of blanched when I heard that at 4:10 If important means influential to other artists, one could argue Pound was more influential (at least with the Modernists)
@@Me_ThatsWho ...' I sang in my chains like the sea. ...'
@@degsbabe"And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams."
@@Me_ThatsWho Marvellous. ..'. In the cathedral of the woods...'
@@degsbabe Nice.
"...And the fair girl long ago
Whom I often tried to know
May be entering this rose."
the line between Leeds and Belsen Is only paper thin.
He was 68. She was 30. On their honeymoon she must have felt old age creeping up on her.
Anyone watching this for Lineback ;_; ?
ayyy
Fiona Shaw, Petunia Dursley Of Harry Potter Fame.
I wonder when Eliot acquired his fake English accent, before or after he arrived in England.
He didn't I met him before he was in England and he sound the same
@@avocadoo4387 I see. So you're 120 years old...
@@chel3SEY no my grandad meet him isaid it wrong
Really
Michael Jackson was also a sheman I never realised t s eliot was trans amazing
Neither Jackson nor Eliot were trans, what are you talking about.
What drugs were you on when you wrote this comment btw?
Not a shaman
I got bored a 1:43 when did you fall bored?
Shut your TV off for two months and come back to it. "Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience." -- Emerson
@@TomFoti beautiful quote !
Bored through most of video...but soldierd on.
That horrible American country music at the beginning. Music and poetry are always a bad combination, but I can't think of any song less suitable to go with an Eliot poem. At first I thought I'd opened another video by mistake.
i dont get it.
What on Earth is the Dylan dirge doing at the beginning - The Four Quartets needs no help - least of all that.
I think it's only there because Dylan mentions Eliot in a song. Even with that in mind, the song seems very badly placed, and a real mistake. (And I'm a huge Dylan fan)
No connection?
Read the Quran before it’s late
meh
Grotesquely over rated, Insignificant poet compared to Yeats Pound D,H, Lawrence Graves let alone Rilke Pasternak or Mandelstam, The reason must be the English needed a resident Great Poet to go with a resident Great Novelist Woolf
Oh, shut up. He is a great poet
It's not a horse race, MB! 😉