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Four Quartets

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by T. S. ELIOT read by Alec Guinness with music specially composed by PETER MAXWELL DAVIES and played by THE FIRES OF LONDON
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are tn-folded
Into the crowned knot of tire
And the fire and the rose are one.
Many believe Four Quartets to be the greatest poem in English of this century, and Guinness's reading of it received wide acclaim.

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Unknown:
T. S. Eliot
Read By:
Alec Guinness
Composed By:
Peter Maxwell Davies
Producer:
Hallam Tennyson
Source: Radio Times

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