T.S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot’s 1922 poem, The Waste Land, is often con­sid­ered one of the great poems of the 20th cen­tu­ry. Above, you can lis­ten to Eliot him­self read­ing his mod­ernist mas­ter­piece (text here). And, if you want more, how about Eliot read­ing The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, anoth­er major work, against the back­drop of Por­tishead? Sac­ri­lege, I know.

You can find both poems in our exten­sive Free Audio Book col­lec­tion, which con­tains hun­dreds of clas­sic works. Fic­tion, non-fic­tion, and poet­ry. It’s all there, and all free.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

James Joyce Read­ing from Finnegans Wake

Tchaikovsky’s Voice Cap­tured on an Edi­son Cylin­der (1899)


by | Permalink | Comments (3) |

Sup­port Open Cul­ture

We’re hop­ing to rely on our loy­al read­ers rather than errat­ic ads. To sup­port Open Cul­ture’s edu­ca­tion­al mis­sion, please con­sid­er mak­ing a dona­tion. We accept Pay­Pal, Ven­mo (@openculture), Patre­on and Cryp­to! Please find all options here. We thank you!


Comments (3)
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
  • A good find. One to trea­sure. Thank u

  • Mandal Bijoy Beg says:

    Best wish­es.

  • Rich Hawel says:

    Elliot’s read­ing is the worst, authors rarely
    recite their own works well. Try to find an
    old copy of Robert Speight read­ing Elliot.
    His poer­ty comes alive with the right
    nar­ra­tor. It’s son­i­cal­ly pow­er­ful as well as
    schol­ar­ly. Oth­er­wise I think we’re in rats’
    alley where the dead men lost their bones.

Leave a Reply

Quantcast
Open Culture was founded by Dan Colman.