Four Quartets by TS Eliot | The Great Poems Of All Time

10/14/23 • 63 min

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965) was an Anglo-American poet.

A devout Christian, Eliot was an important figure in the Modernist movement that sprang to life in the first quarter of the 20th century.

"Four Quartets", a uniquely sublime work by which all his other poems are eclipsed, addresses the theme of time.

It's a theme on which, as you doubtless know, so many of our meditations here on Pneuma are based.

I think that you'll enjoy it.

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Daniel

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Burnt Norton

11:35 - East Coker

29:52 - The Dry Salvages

46:45 - Little Gidding

Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965) was an Anglo-American poet.

A devout Christian, Eliot was an important figure in the Modernist movement that sprang to life in the first quarter of the 20th century.

"Four Quartets", a uniquely sublime work by which all his other poems are eclipsed, addresses the theme of time.

It's a theme on which, as you doubtless know, so many of our meditations here on Pneuma are based.

I think that you'll enjoy it.

Subscribe, like, leave a five-star rating, and share this with friends. Send me poem recommendations at [email protected]

Thank you!

Daniel

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Burnt Norton

11:35 - East Coker

29:52 - The Dry Salvages

46:45 - Little Gidding

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“Footfalls Echo In The Memory”: How To Think About And Deal With REGRET

Footfalls echo in the memory

Down the passage which we did not take

Toward the door we never opened

Into the rose-garden.

This is an excerpt from the first poem of TS Eliot’s masterpiece, “Four Quartets”.

It is, in my opinion, the most memorable part of “Burnt Norton”.

In this episode, we’re going to meditate on the theme that Eliot presents: Regret.

Be sure to listen to my prior episode about remorse.

What is the one thing you regret most?

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-Daniel

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A Meditation For A RAINY Day: Tracing The “History Of A Single Raindrop”

“How interesting (it is) to trace the history of a single raindrop!”

In this guided meditation, we’ll join the American outdoorsman, conservationist, and writer John Muir as we contemplate the dramatic life story of a single raindrop.

Muir was a man of extraordinary depth.

In this episode, we’ll accompany him to lofty poetic heights–high, in fact, as the craggy summits atop which he made his home–before following him and his raindrop down to the oceans, rivers, puddles, and flower cups in which they came to rest.

I don’t know about you, but there’s nothing I enjoy better than watching the rain fall. It’s a divine spectacle of nature, a beautiful production of sound and movement than which there’s simply none more wondrous in all the world.

Hopefully this mediation enhances what is, quite without my meager contribution, a transcendent experience.

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With affection,

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