T.S. Eliot is perhaps the most famous 20th century poet in the English language. What is less well known is the decisive effect that France and French culture had on his development. In 1910 Eliot spent a year living in Paris and studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. Arguably we owe much of his early work, including his first major poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock, to this exposure to French culture and to the Decadent Movement in particular. Simon Callow, acclaimed film and stage actor, talks about the influence on Eliot of the French poet Jules Laforgue, a taster for a special live event featuring music, poetry and talks, taking place at 7.30pm on Tue 21 Feb.
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Tickets cost £12.50 each, and can be purchased on line from Kings Place.
