Poetry and Exile: T. S. Eliot, 'Four Quartets' - Professor Belinda Jack

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• JO

  @johnmartin2813 · 8 years ago

  I personally find the opening of the first movement of Burnt Norton very incantatory.

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• TI

  @TimGreig · 1 year ago

  Paraphrastic (which I had to look up) does NOT means unnecessarily long winded. It means expressing things in a different way. <br>Nevertheless, long winded aside, while I enjoyed this conversation there exists a whole &quot;industry&quot; of academics endlessly discussing and dissecting the work of artists on whose backs they ride. <br><br>Read aloud the poetry and let it do what it needs to do.

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• ID

  @idecantwellbarnes6707 · 7 years ago

  Thank you Professor Belinda Jack and thank you Gresham College.

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• TH

  @TheLitLass · 10 years ago

  Oh, Dame Helen Gardner--what a perfect quotation! (I want to be Helen Gardner when I grow up.) &quot;We must find the meaning in the reading.&quot;

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• JE

  @jeffinrodriguez914 · 7 years ago

  &quot;disturbing the dust&quot; here the dust could be a symbolic embodiment of past and present, as in the biblical saying &quot;dust thou art and to dust thou shall return&quot;. So the poet might be pointing out the futility of contemplating the past and present of human life, which is the &quot;bowl of rose leaves&quot;

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• TH

  @thomassimmons1950 · 6 years ago

  Well Done..!

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• JU

  @juangarza4329 · 6 months ago

  I expected a close reading style lecture😢

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• AC

  @Ackermix · 9 years ago

  Why The waste land is considered a masterpiece and the most important of the century and not the Four Quartets

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• KE

  @kellyannpage1469 · 1 year ago

  Was he talking about the rose garden

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• MG

  @mgenthbjpafa6413 · 7 years ago

  Congratulations dear Professor, finally a lecture that &nbsp;gains my admiration and where I strongly believe to have learned, even if only the Beauty of your expressions.

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• PA

  @paulbrucker3345 · 8 years ago

  So far, listening to half this lecture, the professor is talking about art generalities and, at best, talking around the supposed subject of the lecture, the Four Quartets -- rather than getting into the text itself to illuminate it. &nbsp;Instead, it seems to put a frame around the poem rather than to explore the poem itself.

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• QU

  @quagapp · 8 years ago

  This bloke shows the deep religious significance of the poem. A very good explication even though I am not religious as such: Thomas Howard, Professor Emeritus, St. John&apos;s Seminary, and author, &quot;Dove Descending: A Journey into T.S. Eliot&apos;s Four Quartets&quot; - Gordon College Symposium Key Note Address - Thursday April 18, 2013

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