Here are a few first-rate readings of poems by T.S. Eliot on our syllabus this year, in chronological order.
« The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock » (1915)
read by Anthony Hopkins
« Portrait of a Lady » (1915)
read by the author
« Preludes » (1917)
read by John Gielgud
« Sweeney Among the Nightingales » (1918)
read by Alec Guinness
« Gerontion » (1920)
performed by Jeremy Irons
« The Waste Land » (1922)
performed by Fiona Shaw
« The Hollow Men » (1925)
performed (and adapted) by Marlon Brando in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979)
« Ash Wednesday » (1930)
read by the author
As a bonus, here are a few clips from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic Broadway musical Cats, adapted from T.S. Eliot’s collection of light verse Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (1939). First you will find a recording of the original 1982 Broadway show, and then a filmed version of a more recent, pleasantly campy performance of the musical.
The CONDORCET 