On this recording the Nobel Prize-winning poet reads a varied selection of his own work. His eloquent rendition of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock conveys the frustration of irony of its hapless hero. Also included: Ash Wednesday, A Song for Simeon, Portrait of a Lady, and excerpts from Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party. .
Author
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry." He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. Eliot was born an American, moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at the age of 25), and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.S.\_Eliot
