Exploring the Complexity of Difficult Poetry

Podcasts of Canon Mark Oakley talking about TS Eliot’s Four Quartets at St Paul’s Adult Learning reflective day in April 2016. TS Eliot’s Four Quartets is a classic in the great tradition of Western spirituality. By turns mystical, musical, philosophical and fragmentary, the Four Quartets scrutinise our relationship to time, the universe and the divine. In these podcasts, Mark Oakley first introduces the whole sequence, and then in the following four podcasts explores each of the Quartets by turn. The first two podcasts are rerecorded after the event as the podcast was lost, and the last three are ‘live’. Recorded April 2016.