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Mon, 23 November 2020

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm GMT

T.S. Eliot – A Beginner’s Guide

Patrick McGuinness

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For everyone counting out the days of the pandemic in coffee spoons, wandering aimlessly through half-deserted streets, frustrated by a hundred indecisions: T.S. Eliot got there first. Uncover his extraordinary oeuvre with author and critic Patrick McGuinness.

Do you dare disturb the universe?

T.S. Eliot is famous for his brilliance, sophistication and complexity, and no less infamous for his refusal to make concessions to the casual reader; but making sense of the legendary poet does not have to be a chore. With award-winning novelist and critic Patrick McGuinness as your guide, you’ll uncover the riches of human experience lying in wait in the greatest poetry of the 20th century.

From the neuroses of J Alfred Prufrock to the smoky London of The Waste Land, the whimsical delight of Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats to the dazzling metaphysical fireworks of The Four Quartets, you’ll discover new worlds of wit and wisdom, and understand why Eliot is recognised as one of the greatest masters in the history of the English language.

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Patrick McGuinness

Poet, Novelist, Oxford Professor

Patrick McGuinness is a poet, novelist, translator and academic, and professor of French and Comparative Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of St Anne’s College. His first novel, The Last Hundred Days, was longlisted for the Man Booker, and won the Writers’ Guild Award for fiction and the Wales Book of the Year. His memoir Other People’s Countries won the Duff Cooper Prize, and his second novel, Throw Me to the Wolves, won the Encore Award. He has written three collections of poetry, most recently Blood Feather, and has written and edited a number of scholarly books on French and Francophone literature. He is also the editor of the two-volume Penguin Book of French Short Stories.