Celebrated actor Simon Callow previews T.S. Eliot and Decadence, an event curated by the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation in partnership with the Eliot Foundation on Tuesday 21 February 2017
T.S. Eliot is well known as a leading voice of Modernism, but what is less often acknowledged is the important influence on him of the French Decadent Movement in poetry and the arts, and of the seminal year which he spent in Paris in 1910-11. From the poetry of Jules Laforgue and Paul Verlaine, to the music of Debussy and Ravel, from the paintings of Saint Sebastian in the Louvre to the revolutionary dancing of Isadora Duncan, from watching Wagner at the Paris Opera to enjoying the raucous popular song of the Café Concerts, this experience transformed Eliot, and made him the poet that the world knows.
Simon Callow will talk about the influence of Jules Laforgue in particular, and will read a selection of Eliot’s poems.
Margaret (Peggy) Reynolds, broadcaster and professor of literature at Queen Mary, University of London, will talk about Eliot’s time in Paris in 1910-11, and Matthew Creasy, lecturer in French literature at the University of Glasgow, will tease out the connections between Eliot and the Decadent movement.
Roy Howat, the acclaimed pianist will perform superb pieces by Ravel, Debussy and Chopin, and singer Anna Sideris will perform French mélodies and chansons from the café concert tradition, transporting the audience back to the time of Eliot’s Paris sojourn.
Tickets are available at www.kingsplace.co.uk
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