Can you recommend a narration of Four Quartets?

November 6, 2021 4:01 AM

I'm looking for an "audio book" version of Four Quartets that I can listen to now and then. Any favorites, my favorite hive mind?
posted by Glomar response to Media & Arts (3 answers total)

Best answer: The Ralph Fiennes one is excellent imho
posted by crocomancer at 6:42 AM on November 6, 2021

Best answer: Jeremy Irons does a solid job: not too 'poetic'. Eliot's own reading is, for me, gratingly dated. If you can shake the image of Obi Wan Kenobi loose, Alec Guinness is also rather good. Thanks for that push - much better way of spending a drizzly Saturday afternoon than out in the drizzle.
posted by BobTheScientist at 10:51 AM on November 6, 2021

I think I would love to hear Alec Guiness read this! I read this poen aloud to myself once a year in the early spring. I have for years.
posted by Oyéah at 3:19 PM on November 6, 2021 [1 favorite]