The Waste Land and Other Poems - T.S. Eliot

Category: Adults, Classic, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: 20th Century

Written by T.S. Eliot
Read by Edoardo Ballerini
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

To mark the centenary of the publication of The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot, Faber & Faber, in association with the T. S. Eliot Foundation, commissioned this new recording of T. S. Eliot’s major poems, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini. Ballerini is widely regarded as the brightest star of the audiobook era, one of the finest narrators of literature today.

Originally published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary poem of its time, offering a devastating vision of modern civilisation that has lost none of its power.

Poems in this recording:

‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
‘Portrait of a Lady’
‘The “Boston Evening Transcript”‘
‘The Waste Land’
‘The Hollow Men’
‘Journey of the Magi’
‘Animula’

Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.

Length: 47 mins
Release date: 01-04-22