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Great Books Explained
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Добавлен 5 ноя 2021
This is an extension of my channel @greatartexplained and follows the same ideas. Except it is about literature. Fifteen minutes, clear concise language, no outlandish theories, just a love for books and reading. I hope you enjoy this virtual book club! James
The Radical world of William Blake: Great Books Explained
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“Shall [we] call him Artist or Genius-or Mystic-or Madman? Probably he is all.”
The English artist and poet William Blake was 32 years old when the citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison, signalling the start of the French Revolution.
For Blake, the revolution was a powerful source of inspiration. Within a few years, energised by dreams of freedom and revolution, Blake ...
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“Shall [we] call him Artist or Genius-or Mystic-or Madman? Probably he is all.”
The English artist and poet William Blake was 32 years old when the citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison, signalling the start of the French Revolution.
For Blake, the revolution was a powerful source of inspiration. Within a few years, energised by dreams of freedom and revolution, Blake ...
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The Lord of the Rings: Great Books Explained
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The Little Prince: Great Books Explained
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Moby-Dick: Great Books Explained
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The Visionary World of Emily Dickinson: Great Books Explained
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Great Gatsby: Great Books Explained
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Great Books Explained
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Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! www.patreon.com/user?u=53686503 or if you prefer a one-off donation - www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q44B57ENYRSV8 As internet users, we all understand the expression “Going Down a Rabbit Hole”, which comes from the much-loved book, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The book famously begins when the main character, Alice, foll...
Ulysses by James Joyce: Great Books Explained
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Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon, thanks! www.patreon.com/user?u=53686503 or if you prefer a one-off donation - www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=Q44B57ENYRSV8 This video is dedicated to my great friends, and Joyce aficionado's Jean and Derry O'Sullivan. Even before James Joyce’s Ulysses was published it was causing trouble. Short excerpts appeared in a review magazine, ...
Very interesting. Ass always: great video.
The usual degeneracy praised as literature lol
Someone compared Ahab to Hitler, even though he lived after Melville died. Everyone on board thinks Ahab is sort of crazy but they follow his orders anyway. Hitler was motivated by revenge against the French although he had more motives than that.
After his mother died how did they afford to eat much less go to college etc.?
Good question. They were raised by a priest his mother had assigned them to before she died (of diabetes)
The greatest enemy of all, perhaps, is Amazon, who seek to wreck everything that Tolkien built.
Cather in the rye?
Love these❤
Happy Bloomsday! 🎉🎉🎉
Happy Bloomsday to you!
Came here to see if anybody would mention it hahaha Not disappointed Happy Bloomsday!
These (part one and two) are staggeringly good. I listened in wonder as you unfurled the life of Blake... a name I have heard all my life, knowing little/nothing about him (for shame! I SHOULD). But I can tell myself now,; "I was waiting for James Payne's telling." ...as there is no one else I'd rather hear about him from.
Such a nice thing to read - thank you so much 🙏
Great video. Thanks for the deep exploration of Tolkien's life and how it influenced this masterpiece.
Elves in Peter Jackson film - sophisticated, majestic and strong. Elves in the latest abomination - weak, cowardly, anorexic, unattractive and genderless. 🤨
Appreciate the videos
I can't understand the world without Literature. In fact, it has been saying my life since I was a child❤
What's the song in the beginning?
It’s all in the video description Vanesa
Beautiful ❤
Thank you for another wonderful, insightful video! ❤
Sweet now I don't have to read or be intellectual rigorous, I can just pretend to be! God bless the modern world. Now I relax as I have art explained to me.
Well done.
To Darwin, natural selection produced the good of adaptation but removed the need for design, and he could not see the work of an omnipotent deity in all the pain and suffering such as the ichneumon wasp paralysing caterpillars as live food for its eggs. why does a milk maid and a notary produce a Leonardo Da Vinci....and Watson and Crick point out for every DaVinci thousands of others are born handicapped for life.....
Hello, all your videos are beautiful! I will recommend you to analyse books from India too!
Thank you for showing me how incredible Blake was as an artist. I hadn't known anything about him. Wonderfully done.
The one flow critical flaw of character is according to greek tragedy, not obligatory in the Sheakspearian one
BBC gotta give u a show. If they did for Simon Schama, they should for u as well.
What an outstanding video! You managed to make this classic interesting as it can be, almost as if getting us to buy the book, haha. Thank you for such great content and keep up the good work
That last line is something that the sensational young pianist Yunchan Lim bears in mind in his playing.
Would you consider doing a video on the Harry Potter series, great breakdown here!
My first encounter with Blake was in AP literature, Junior year (11th grade) and my teacher gave zero context or history. Thank you for this deep explanation of his work! I have a new appreciation for his word and art.
I could care less about the lord of the rings. that and star wars ruined good movies for popular scholck! too bad!
It's astonishing how William Blake is underated. Both his painting and his poetry are hauntingly beautiful. Thank you for the superb video!
William Blake is not 'underrated'. Anyone who knows him and his work rate him very highly. I think you're looking for another word.
wonderful
Wonderful stuff.
One of the most talented creators on this platform. the depth and nuance you put into these videos never ceases to amaze me.
Thank you for the great video. It had lots of good points, interesting perspectives, good structure combined with your voice and good editing. I personally think the comparisons to word war 2 and hitler is a bit much and superficial. If you want to, you can compare most things, in some way or another and i think the work is larger than that ;)
I love LOTR. But I have to say, after multiple reads, the books suck. I can’t do 8 straight pages of walking through a meadow.
Another great lesson! Thanks for this amazing video! ❤
who else cried
Again, I learned so much and I thank you
I think the Tyger poem and the Lamb sitting across the page from each other, Is a play on the image of the lion lying down with the lamb from the bible. They have the same maker, different natures, and a shared end.
Oh I loved Ulysses. I didn't expect anything, I just went along for the ride, that rollicking, smorgasbord of language, poetry, and art.
A very tasteful and relevant advert at the end. Bravo!
Excellent video! Thank you so much!
Another excellent video!
Thank you!
As a chorister I've often sung 'The Lamb' by Tavener and always found it a touching and remarkable poem. Glad to learn more on this channel about William Blake and his work 😊
Thx mate❤
Nice video
Bravo. Another epic and insightful short film. Thank you.
Now I need to get this collection of poems. This is some powerfully message.
Was hoping to see more DMC fans in the comments, I personally discovered Blake’s works from V constantly reading aloud lines from Blake’s poems. After personally reading some of Blake’s work, it certainly gave me a whole new perspective on the game.
Appreciate you