Between the Desire and the Dream: Selected Poems by T.S. Eliot

Version: Unabridged
Author: T.S. Eliot
Narrator: Dennis Regan , Michelle Dumelle
Genres: Poetry, Literature
Publisher: Geoffrey T. Williams
Date: December 2007
Length: 1 hour, 3 minutes
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  • CD

Overview

Noble Prize winner T.S. Eliot wrote some of the best-known, most widely-discussed poetry of the past 100 years. He was a daring and uncompromising innovator. With dramatic, original music and expressive interpretation, this recording dramatizes why his works continue to influence literature, and touch contemporary readers. Includes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "The Hollow Men," "Preludes," and "Portrait of a Lady."

Reviews (1)

a wasteland of time

Written by PM Sutton on April 22nd, 2009

  • Book Rating: 1/5

A terrible production, the words are lost under the music. This is not a poetry audiobook, it is an annoying mood music CD with TS Elliot in the background.

Author Details

Author Details

Eliot, T.S.

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927. The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.