This poet is very magic, His waste land became part of my life, for 30 years now and still is like he described my own life. Cg jung is another such magic writer. ❤️

I know that your quite busy with your own writing, so thank you for taking time out of your life to post this!! I’ve learned so much about authors I never knew thanks to this channel.

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome and it makes me happy to hear that! It means the channel is doing what it's supposed to. Okay, back to the writing...

@swymaj02

Жыл бұрын

I wholeheartedly agree. Its gotten me back into writing.

I fell in love with poetry when I read the words "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons". I'd read some poetry before then, trying to be cultured, but that line set off a bomb in my brain.

@esterasel4063

6 ай бұрын

What is your Interpretation on this line ?

@bokehintheussr5033

6 ай бұрын

@@esterasel4063 it refers to looking back and realising most of your time has been wasted away bit by bit by daily routine. Something you never expect looking forward.

T S Eliot poetry renders the reader or at least me to calm affect . I admire his use of metaphor suits the mood of Eliots expression . It's honest, clever, but without artifice or deceptive word play . It seems to encapsulate the times of the late 40s and change post 2nd World War.

I love watching your documentaries about authors. It helped me a lot to gain important points in short. Keep up the good work 👍🏻❤

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sujata! Glad they're helpful

Another beautiful short documentary. Picking out the salient details from a life as psychologically tumultuous as Eliot's is no small undertaking. I particularly appreciate the absence of any 'finger-pointing' or demonisation concerning certain notoriously controversial poetic tropes, leaving it to the viewer to make up their mind. The picture error, whereby his second wife, The Tall Girl, replaces his first, are venial sins in what is otherwise a splendid production. 👌

Photos used of Vivian are of his second wife not his first.

@Simpaulme

Жыл бұрын

I wondered!

I enjoyed this. Thank you.

Another wonderful documentary. Thank you for sharing. For scholars interested in T. S. Eliot’s conversion to Anglo-Catholicism, I recommend the book "Anglo-Catholic in Religion, T. S. Eliot and Christianity" by Barry Sturr. It is high-level scholarship examining Anglo-Catholicism in his day (the outcome of the Oxford Movement 100 years prior) and how that influenced his writings, with specific texts. It also includes an Appendix addressing the current charges of anti-semitism, rendering analysis in the context of the time in which he lived.

@barryspurr9577

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Spurr not Sturr

@RoscoPColtrane17

5 ай бұрын

He had an accurate view of Semitism.

We shall not cease from exploraton And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time T. S. Eliot

Eliot wrote in a somewhat abstract way but it was at least possible to guess what he might be talking about. Now, poets write absolutely incomprehensible stuff. I no longer read any of it because, after I've waded through random disjointed phrases, the poet ends with a sudden jump to an entirely different selection of vague incomprehensible phrases and I have absolutely no clue to what s/he might be saying. Modern people are time-poor and have no interest in puzzling over what a poet might perhaps be rambling on about if that poet isn't willing to create any clarity at all.

@markhughes7927

Ай бұрын

Eliot’s apparent abstract isolates require deep focal length to join into the mainland into which they appear! ….a pole-vaulter walks away to succeed… That quote referencing the literary body stemming from Homer states the serious requirement made of any reader not wishing to miss any beat - we are lucky for any guides and personal gratitude goes with a wallop to George Williamson.

Too short for such an important poet.

This brief documentary features some interesting drawings and photographs I had never seen before. But it makes the surprising mistake of confusing Eliot's first wife, Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, with his second, Valerie Fletcher Eliot, whom he married in late middle age. The photographs shown here are of Valerie, but are twice identified as Vivienne. Unusual error. Eliot was the first poet I "adopted" or identified with as a teenager, and "Prufrock and Other Observations" was the first book of poems I bought and carried around in my back pocket. I've read his poems many times, and I'll read them again, but I've never read the plays or the criticism; the criticism would be over my head, I'm sure. I've read a couple of bios of "TSE-TSE," so I know a fair amount about him and I'm certain those snaps mistake Valerie for Vivienne. Anyway, thanks again, Paul. Take care.

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

You're right. Someone did mix up the photos. Good eye! I haven't read his plays or criticism either. I imagine the crit would be heady reading. I do love the intricacy of "The Waste Land" though. That was my early encounter with him. Thanks, John.

@rogercarroll2551

2 жыл бұрын

Ludicrous

@Scapegrace74

2 жыл бұрын

I thought you'd never ask. It was Conrad Aiken who tagged Eliot with that "Tse-tse" nickname. They met while students at Harvard and remained lifelong friends. Aiken was a poet and wrote short-stories and a memoir. Today, he's known mostly for a frequently anthologized short-story called "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," which has been dramatized on film and appears on KZread. 😃

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

@@Scapegrace74 Lol, the more you know. I'll check it out

@steveculbert4039

2 жыл бұрын

I have a doctorate in English and studied Eliot carefully. I feel close to him. Thank you for sharply observing the photographs and gently mentioning them in your comment.

Thanking you 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

The photos shown of Vivienne are actually of his second wife Valerie with whom he was extremely happy. Vivienne was a much more stylish woman plus ts Elliot was a good deal younger when he was married to her.

What would cause a Missourian to become a British citizen? Did he ever explain why he did not return to Missouri?

You have the wrong lady photographed as his first wife Vivienne(?)… you show an image of his second wife and final love - ( Valerie, I believe).

What about 'Cats'!? I always think that was his saving grace - and a great rebuff to anyone who might have thought modern poets just aren't up to formal technique. 😉

@matthewstokes1608

Жыл бұрын

Ah, Old Possum! … me too! Excellent work. :)

Because he dared to sing again Because he dared Because he dared to sing He ate the peach.

My entry to poetry was Eliot. I first heard him recited during the super bad science fiction movie Zardoz. One of the characters repeats a section of Prufrock to Sean Connery. The next day I went to my high school library in search of Eliot's poems. Since then I read his collected poems, including the Waste Land twice. I don't agree with or like a lot of his social chatter (he hated Jews, plain and simple). Eliot should be read for his poetry only.

@AuthorDocumentaries

2 жыл бұрын

I just looked up Zardoz. "Do you know the next line?" Lol. That's a great way into Eliot. Glad you didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's many writers on here I don't agree with either but love their prose and poetry.

The photos purportedly with Vivian H-W, Eliot's first wife are actually of his of his second wife. Needs fixing big time!

lol you used the wrong picture for his first wife

*Some* of the most influential? Who, pray tell, would be more influential?

What about his antisemitism?

@TomorrowWeLive

Жыл бұрын

Best thing about him

@ericadler9680

Жыл бұрын

@@TomorrowWeLive The Jews are not the problem you child, it's Sharia Islam.

@matthewstokes1608

Жыл бұрын

Eric Adler - we all have our flaws unless we are Saints. He was a supremely gifted poet. He was not alone in his dislikes at that time. His Four Quartets book quite literally soars upwards beyond such sentiments and negativity… He became a High Anglican - a true Christian - a man without hate - and that is the point.

@ericadler9680

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewstokes1608 An antisemite is a man without hate? You surely have to twist the truth somewhat there.

@matthewstokes1608

Жыл бұрын

@@ericadler9680 He wasn't an antisemite once he became a Christian - after dark years and a mental breakdown... No true Christian is a man with hate - a Christian leaves all judgement with God. You are clearly not a believer in Christ. Each to their own. Differences of views are rife throughout history - and racism has existed in every epoch and locale on Earth. Millions of people have been antisemites - millions are anti-Christian. And the Earth orbits the Sun.