It's a soft four, and I feel I'm being generous. Possible that expectations were raised unreasonably by its fame.Its main strength, perhaps, is in the concept. Treating cats as people, with their varying personalities and exploits. The variety of characters is entertaining. As individual poems, how...
I'm guessing Cats the musical was based on these poems (never seen the show). I don't love cats, and the poems weren't that great. I also wasn't a fan of the racial slur used in the book.
I read this because I had heard it drew on the tradition of Greek drama when I was revising the source history with a student, and spotted it in my local charity bookshop.The Greek drama aspects give the best scope for Eliot to experiment with Christian theology and imagery, which he does in quite a...
***Read for University***2.5 stars actually.At first I thought this play would be like the many others I've read (this excludes Shakespeare because he's in a category of his own in a sense to me) and well, I've must say I don't have very much luck with a play I've read for university most times. How...
The Lovesong and the other works here are full of navel-gazing reflections on the inexplicable fixations and frustrations of emotional life, throwing up frequently resonant physical details, framed with a self-consciousness that sometimes cloys or annoys, and sometimes inspires deep sympathy.
~~Moved from GR~~ Collected Poems by T.S. Eliot Recommended to Carly by: Me. Recommended for: anyone in an emo-poetic mood (or lit people, but they've already read it) In general, if there's some sort of sliding scale of poetic appreciation, I'm somewhere near -∞. The first forewarning of a ...
~~Moved from GR~~ Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot In general, my reading tastes are pulp-press-simple. I can neither appreciate, nor enjoy, nor, I admit, even understand, poetry. But Eliot is different, and I don't know why. I have very little understanding of what is going on in the poems themselv...
bookshelves: radio-4, published-1943, winter-20132014, poetry, nobel-laureate, philosophy, religion Read from January 16 to 19, 2014 Sat 18/1/2014 R4Jeremy Irons reads TS Eliot's four linked meditations. BBC description: Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of T.S. Eliot's career as a p...
bookshelves: currently-reading, fraudio, autumn-2013, poetry, nobel-laureate, published-1935, biography Read from November 28 to 29, 2013 T. S. Eliot "Murder in the Cathedral" in entirety A poetic rendition of Thomas Becket.Encountering this as a compliment to The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings...
Like many others, I have watched the musical (on DVD, sadly never on live). It may be my favorite musical of all times. The customs, the songs, the dance... everything is perfect. My favorite character has always been Munkustrap, although I tend to change my mind between Rum Tum Tugger and Skimblesh...
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