Milton’s Lycidas

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I read you Milton’s great elegy for a friend and fellow poet drowned at sea. It's quite a long poem but well worth your while. you can read the text here www.poetryfoundation.org/poem...
And you can, if you wish, encourage me with coffee and cake here www.buymeacoffee.com/malcolmg...

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  • @peterboroughjoe1577
    @peterboroughjoe1577 Жыл бұрын

    “Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more…” What a hopeful moment that is - a truth to hold onto as Peter did Christ upon the wind and waves. Thanks Malcolm and may your star continue to rise as you spread the good and beautiful news and word.

  • @selenaerkzan8969
    @selenaerkzan896911 ай бұрын

    I cannot help but think of Chaucer's House of Fame when I read Lycidas. Thank you for this beautiful reading.

  • @ellen823ful
    @ellen823ful Жыл бұрын

    ❤ It’s a snowy day in Illinois. I can’t go anywhere today. This morning I stubbed my toe and must stay put as it throbs. Then, you read to me this poem by Milton. If it weren’t for my early misfortune I might’ve missed this gift. Thank you 🙏 Malcolm.

  • @bigal2696
    @bigal2696 Жыл бұрын

    Oh that all the world would appreciate and read poetry! Thank you for this too little appreciated piece of poetry

  • @midlander4
    @midlander4 Жыл бұрын

    Malcolm, every one of your videos is a total banger 🙏🏽

  • @QHarefield
    @QHarefield Жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Malcolm. For my money, Milton is dense and sometimes all but impenetrable - much more so than Shakespeare. I had read this 2 or 3 times before but you have brought it more alive for me. I had to laugh when you said "It's printed among his minor poems - but only minor in the sense that it's not Paradise Lost." Not Paradise Lost! What a yardstick!

  • @69erthx1138
    @69erthx1138Ай бұрын

    My mentor in literature Warren Myers introduced me to this poem. You read this in similar fashion Sir.

  • @JohnRutherford205
    @JohnRutherford205 Жыл бұрын

    A really wonderful poem. One of my professors as an undergraduate was a big fan of Milton and would quote him regularly in conversation, particularly sonnet 19. I had the chance to meet with him this past weekend. It was lovely to see him.

  • @caroledrury1411
    @caroledrury14113 ай бұрын

    Oh my God! What a reading! Particularly for this very time we live in! Look homeward angel… You would also be great on the stage not just as a musician but a great actor! Thanks for Milton

  • @Nighttrainpiper
    @Nighttrainpiper Жыл бұрын

    “Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string.” Wonderful reading and a reminder that in our loss there is still hope in our immortality. I love how poetry is so near in your mind that it speaks directly to life experiences. Be well, Malcom, appreciate you brother.

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    You are so welcome

  • @doorntreader7624
    @doorntreader7624 Жыл бұрын

    Another gem. Thanks, Malcolm.

  • @b-dogpiper1499
    @b-dogpiper1499 Жыл бұрын

    Lovely, just a lovely reading. Admittedly I have never been much of a poetry reader, as I felt I would have to read and re-read - too many times - passages to understand the author’s intent; but when listening to your deliveries - your cadence, inflections and passion - I have a new appreciation. Thanks so much for this wonderful content, sir. And happy smokes to you.

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    thanks!

  • @shaneball3493
    @shaneball3493 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mr. Guite, another morning filled with poetry , Thank you, I have taken suggestions of other poets and books from you and have been thrilled to read such a variety. Luci Shaw I thank you for.

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for listening

  • @boogieboxmusic4331
    @boogieboxmusic4331 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful to listen to you Malcolm, I enjoyed your appreciation of our great poet and your educated rendition.. glad to have shared the moments with you.. many thanks..

  • @phillylifer
    @phillylifer2 ай бұрын

    Good stuff

  • @davechittenden1657
    @davechittenden1657 Жыл бұрын

    I know nothing of Lycidas or his place in literature, and in some ways that doesn't much matter to me. However in this poem there seems a microcosm of healthy human relationship at death..(of any human real of made up).. the love and respect in rememberance and celebration even in mourning for the twist and spark of the divine. Thank you for your excellent and illuminating reading Malcolm.

  • @johnbirkett31
    @johnbirkett31 Жыл бұрын

    Always enjoy your reading and take on a piece of poetry Malcolm and especially Milton s Lycidas . Quite moving and beautiful use of the English language. I will reread this poem again quietly to myself later.

  • @johnmulvey5121
    @johnmulvey5121 Жыл бұрын

    Great reading of the poem. I'm going back to it later. Thanks

  • @Catonius
    @Catonius Жыл бұрын

    always a pleasure to pop in for a wee visit.

  • @OHAREAVIATION
    @OHAREAVIATION Жыл бұрын

    Hello from Chicago! Another marvelous reading. Thanks much!!

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    You are so welcome

  • @KenPierpont
    @KenPierpont Жыл бұрын

    I did delight in the CT article and photos. I shared you with discerning friends, who immediately began to enjoy meeting you in your study... and in your Temple of Peace. I trust your rising star can have more than one poetic meaning... :)

  • @thekingcory
    @thekingcory4 ай бұрын

    Wound up here bc Edward King is apparently my 7th great-granduncle. We recently lost both my father and grandfather within three weeks of each other. Genealogical research after their deaths lead to this poem, but it would have been so fitting to have the penultimate stanza read at their burials.

  • @brianheffernan8982
    @brianheffernan8982 Жыл бұрын

    Lovely video, Malcolm.

  • @hardusdeklerk8993
    @hardusdeklerk8993 Жыл бұрын

    Always the highlight of my day when I see a new video from you, Sir. Bless you.

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks again!

  • @TheTunnellTake
    @TheTunnellTake Жыл бұрын

    More ytpc awesomeness! Love ya man!

  • @timhower3628
    @timhower3628 Жыл бұрын

    Seven nights and days. I by God's grace will see you with my own eyes here in Lancaster. Twenty five years ago I was in Vancouver BC and I went to Regents and I met briefly with JI Packer as he was leaving Regents. I was able to shake his hand. This was enough. In Christ Tim.

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    see you soon!

  • @mrickenbacherwest
    @mrickenbacherwest Жыл бұрын

    Seems Keats must have also been inspired by this beautiful elegy. I hear it reflected in Ode to a Nightingale...thank you, Malcolm the Marvelous, for shining yet another light. cheers

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    Many thanks!

  • @crochanosullivan2157
    @crochanosullivan2157 Жыл бұрын

    Line 60-63 in Lycidas refer to when Orpheus was torn to pieces by the Thracian Maenads and his head, still singing, floated down the river Hebrus until it reached the island of Lesbos where it was buried. Seamus Heaney also refers to this in Loughanure In second part (Human Chain) “Saw Orpheus/ Because he’d perished at the women’s hands/Choose rebirth as a swan”.

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    yes indeed, there wasn't of course time in this reading to unravel all the poignant allusions in Lycidas

  • @cynthiaford6976
    @cynthiaford6976 Жыл бұрын

    Robert Bly, being a devotee of the Jungian (Jung, Marie Louise von Franz, James Hillman etc.), who became very famous, used to insist that positive projection was a palpable force, an energy, and sometimes it almost seems as if he used to try to shake it off, like a dog shaking off water, when he was speaking or reading. Christian Wiman tells a story about walking Mary Oliver (the only other American poet who gathered fame in these days) to a reading in Chicago. She saw a bloodied dead pigeon on the sidewalk amongst the flocking pigeons, picked it up, and described to him where the hawk's talons had struck. When he said they had to go, she put it in her pocket and kept it there throughout her reading before 800 people. Although it is what our materialist, technological,exteriority instead of interiority culture values, fame is described often as a trial by the famous. I loved hearing this read, having had a copy forever, but never having crack'ed it. And to find "look homeward angel" which Thomas Wolfe used as a title! Thank you!

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @donaldcatton4028
    @donaldcatton4028 Жыл бұрын

    I once blurted out in addled state this poem was the greatest artifact of the English language…

  • @billcanonico6657
    @billcanonico6657 Жыл бұрын

    "the hungry sheep look up and are not fed". i heard you read this phrase today and thought about certain shepherds i've known, about whom this, sadly, could be said.

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    yes, alas that line is still all too true

  • @dalenelson8254
    @dalenelson8254 Жыл бұрын

    Sixteen seconds into the video, I see Behold, This Dreamer! on your shelf -- Walter de la Mare's anthology "Of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, Love-Dreams, Nightmare, Death, the Unconscious, the Imagination, Divination, the Artist, and Kindred Subjects" -- !

  • @MalcolmGuitespell

    @MalcolmGuitespell

    Жыл бұрын

    yes its a great compilation

  • @NuYiDao
    @NuYiDao Жыл бұрын

    The language is so dense, and since I had not read this one before, it seemed to me Shakespeare-dense. So it needs much more slow vocal treatment. Also, apart from that terrible thing in me of drifting along utterly without comprehension for the most part, all of a sudden when you began acting the meaning came back out clearly again for the last section as a direct result I suppose.

  • @DecriminalizeMarijuana
    @DecriminalizeMarijuana Жыл бұрын

    1st