You can find my version of the list here for free: www.patreon.com/posts/95141707

@4d4341

5 ай бұрын

Truly amazing. Thank you so much.

@maryangeladouglas

5 ай бұрын

Though I appreciate so much what you are doing and your general viewpoint is stellar, I am interested in THE ORIGINAL FULL LIST OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY. The patreon link gives YOUR adapted and modified and enhanced list which is wonderful to have. HOW CAN I FIND THE ORIGINAL LIST. The year 1983 happens to be very important to me for many reasons and the list detailing, the full list detailing the recommendations of Harvard for students of literature is deeply invaluable to me. Please can you publish some kind of link to the full, original list? THANK YOU.

@closereadingpoetry

5 ай бұрын

@maryangeladouglas ah, sorry. The complete list is under copyright, so I can't just reproduce it. Is there something specific you're looking for? I'm not sure where you could find this list to buy, but here is the bibliographic information for finding a copy: www.google.com/books/edition/Bibliography_for_English_Undergraduate_C/EX47AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0

@SuperMrgentleman

5 ай бұрын

​@@closereadingpoetryYou know, I don't believe a list of works itself is actually protected by copyright, as it's factual in nature, the same as a list of academy award winners isn't something I (or the Academy) can copyright. Commentary, introductions, descriptions etc. is subject to copyright, however.

@OlliesProse

4 ай бұрын

Do you know about doctrine of discovery??/ I mean, surely you do. How do you think this will shape the future are others become well hearsed in what it did. I find old works take on a varied meaning when you see truthful history played out. On top of this -- the whole King James story... particular attention to the tunnel that left from his bedroom to that of his gay lovers. Religion is losing is value. I am in favor of reclassifying religion, putting it into culture shaping and like so.....changes as we get smarter and aware of evil intended men.

Self-educated working-class bloke here: So happy to have found your channel! I like peering over the shoulder of those who are more educated and have a look-see at what they're reading. Thank you.

@Lyndanet

3 ай бұрын

How cool

This is honestly a very underrated KZread channel. Congratulations, I appreciate your work here and hope you keep improving.

@closereadingpoetry

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@theharshtruthoutthere

5 ай бұрын

@@closereadingpoetry Whenever you seek something to read, remember: Basic Information Before Leaving Earth = B I B L E (KJV) and a search: BIBLE + FREEMASONRY.

@Jumboo364

4 ай бұрын

Not going to lie, best comment on KZread!!!!

I LOVE this I always appreciate people who passionately talk about literature so it can give me real reactions and recommendations for me to read later

Your knowledge and insight is so fascinating, I feel like I could listen to your analysis all day. Academically stimulating and thought provoking without being gatekeepy, great video!

You definitely have set for yourself a noble quest. And it is kind of you to share with others your insights and personal reflections on literature, particularly poetry, and its study vis a vis Harvard and beyond Harvard as well.. I especially love your references to out of print materials as I do feel literature being for the ages as well as our own time in its surpassing sense, for each of our unique consciousness as individuals as well, it is good to be situated not only in our own time with regard to bibliographic materials. We are not limited to present day commentaries anymore than we are limited to contemporary literature. Good to have as wide and as deep a study as possible. Thank You and hope all your dreams come true regarding your ongoing goals, mission and sphere of influence for the good. A most worthy effort.

This is a gem. So pleased I found it. Thank you.

I love this channel. It gives genuine literature-scholar feels

Wow! Subscription earned. I’ve been looking for a good poetry channel for years and KZread finally sent one that loves the subject as much as I do. I’m going through your back catalogue right now and am loving your Shakespearean sonnet exploration. Thank you for taking the time to make these and I’m wishing you much success as you make plain and enjoyable this wonderful art.

Thank you very much for giving us an insight of literature along history-time. It is very important to understand and appreciate literature the way you expose it for the inexperienced person like me.

It’s awesome that you’re sharing this, thank you so much!!!!!

I just discovered your channel. You’re doing something really meaningful here.

finding this channel feels like a gift! I want to get more into poetry, since I do like it but I don't have that much experience with it as I have with novels or short stories 😊I'm looking forward to watching more content from you

What a great channel. Thank you for the wonderful information. I am going to the library and look up some of these great pieces!

I haven't been this excited for a YT video in years

this channel is such a gem! glad i found you and looking forward to the plans for 2024

So glad I found this video in my recommendations, lately I have been collecting so many books to read some in here were repeats, but there were a lot of ones I still haven't heard about. Classical literature is so fascinating!! Can't believe I slept on it for so long- well I have been reading some classics like the Bible 😂 here and there so maybe I did not neglect reading them entirely, but only now do I understand this big historical context and the differences between all the eras. I enjoyed reading egzistentialism philosophy by Simone, now I am reading Homeric texts. This channel gives great joy.

Incredibly outstanding introduction to great works and writers!

I’m a big book nerd and try to read purposefully, thank you for this list. When I went to college, I wish we read books like this. Love thinking deeply and critically. Glad I was able to find you on KZread.

What an amazing discovery your channel such treasure and delight! Thank you

Hello, Adam! Lovely video! Thanks for sharing with us! Happy Holidays! Cheers from Brazil!

What a great channel! Thank you very much for your efforts, selflessness and humility to share whatever knowledge you have in the field of English literatre with those who are interested. A great video as are all the other ones published before and after this one. It would be a great gesture to share with us the updated syllabi of such marvellous university as Harvard

Amazing! I studied comp lit at Univerity of Toronto St George and we followed a similar plan of study in 1st year. Funny you should mention Frye, as he was a lecturer at my school. I had the great privilege of perusing some of his library and watched his class on the bible which is archived on DVD and can be rented out at the library. It's refreshing to see a young person such as yourself interested in reading the bible as literature. Sincere bestvwishes

Really excellent content. This has made me realize that I have neglected poetry. I’m going to use this video as a starting point. Thanks very much. Keep up the good work.

I major in CS but I just love the way you talk. Super relaxing and interesting.

Incredible work. Thank you for this wonderful video

@closereadingpoetry

5 ай бұрын

Thank you too!

I wish I had come across such a channel when I was a literature student. You produce very high quality content and provide people with a great roadmap, thank you. It also would be great if you shared a written list of the books mentioned in the video.

I am holding a phd in german literature studies and just stumbled across this channel, and i am so happy to finally have found content on my subject of expertise (sort of) that is intellectually inspiring. Thank you mate!

@billiechristine4034

5 ай бұрын

May I ask what you would recommend reading to learn more about German literature? I recently read 'The Life of Simplicius Simplicissimus' by Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelhausen, and I have also been exploring German poetry. I have fallen in love and want to study more. ❤

@tobiassupercool2833

5 ай бұрын

@@billiechristine4034 Grimmelshausen for sure is the historic starting point into Neuere Deutsche Literatur, so great choice! I am very happy to recommend you some German writers. Is there an epoch or a topic you are particularly interested in? Do you read the German originals or English translations?

@tobiassupercool2833

5 ай бұрын

Goethe's Faust is an obligatory read, then everything really becomes more or less a matter of personal preferences and interests. I recommend to also read Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, ETA Hoffmann's der Sandmann, Heinrich Mann's Der Untertan (I do not like his brother Thomas, thus no recommendation here), Erich Kästner's Fabian, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, Oskar Maria Graf's Das Leben meiner Mutter and Wir sind Gefangene (everything by Graf is brilliant), Erich Maria Remarque's "Im Westen nichts neues", some stories by Ludwig Thoma If you want to have a good laugh, and if you want to read poetry, on which I am not an expert, you could try Rilke and some expressionists. But reading poetry really depends on your German skills.

@tobiassupercool2833

5 ай бұрын

Another idea: maybe there are some good contemporary retellings of mediaeval German literature such as Nibelungenlied, Parzival, or Tristan in English available?

@billiechristine4034

5 ай бұрын

@tobiassupercool2833 Thank you so much for your reply! I will definitely look into all of the books you have suggested. I am reading in English translation, my German is poor and comes from what I picked up from my grandparents as a child. There is no specific topic that I am particularly interested in, I do enjoy historical fiction, though, especially if I can learn of the time period it is set in. I currently have copies of Tristan and Parzival in English, and a dual-language copy of Faust. I am just unsure of where to start with those, maybe the oldest first?

This is such an absorbing video to watch as a Polish student of English translation and literature, I love your channel

Thankfull for KZread recommendations - so happy to find this Channel 🌸

This gem I just found is amazing! Thanks so much for doing this Adam. Keep up the good work

My ears perked up when you mentioned that Marjorie Garber, but especially Walter Jackson Bate, were on the committee. A great teacher and then an even greater biographer! I’ll have to take the list and then bow out. Thank you for this lovely video.

@siamcharm7904

5 ай бұрын

also loved prof bate. spent some time at i tatti with kaiser.

Just found your channel and I want to thank you so much for this amazing and essential list of readings! Congratulations! One more subscriber!

I've found your channel tonight and I loved it. This viddeo is great! I can fully understand you! I'll be watching more video to keep practicing my English skills :) Best from Brazil.

What a wonderful channel where literature and poetry are front and center. ❤

Thank you for sharing this ❤

How interesting as I graduated in 1981 from Ripon College. Several years later I had asked my English teacher, Dr. William Shang, to share with me his top 20 novels of all time. Fantastic list. Read some but not enough. There’s never time! Thanks for the video! 😊

What a gem of a KZread channel how this is the first time I've encountered it is strange

Worthwhile reads as heard here. My thanks. Carry on, 2024! -Seb!

What a treasure trove; thank you for sharing it with such care and detail. For what it’s worth, I like the Seamus Heaney version of Sir Gawain and The Green Knight; we read it each year at Christmas by candlelight (probably the most rarefied thing I’ve ever typed & in no way representative of my day to day life!); my kids will actually listen to it; I think the story is a good one for kids.

@closereadingpoetry

5 ай бұрын

Love that - what a great tradition!

What a great video! Thank you!

I am a literature specialist- thank you for verifying what I try to express to my students every day ❤

Well done young lad, and I commend you for the 'Dark Academy' aesthetic...up to and including the brownish grey sweater.

i love vids like this, in an hour i learned more than i could in years of school!!!!!

you have such a calm and lovely style of presenting all the works and recommendations. your passion comes through in a very engaging way but still calming, I could listen to this for hours! I’m so happy I got recommended this video and I can’t way to watch some of your other uploads 🤍

Lovely channel! Subscribed ✨

@closereadingpoetry

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! And likewise!

I just stumbled on your channel in my feed, subscribed almost at once! Happy holidays and stay safe everyone!

Hi. My name is John (João), I'm from Brazil, and maybe that's reason enough to motivate someone to question the claim I'm going to make here, but I do believe that you and Benjamin McEvoy have the best literature channels in the website right now. Congratulations for your journey!

@otaviow2993

5 ай бұрын

Olá, João. Se me permite, eu gostaria de tomar a liberdade de indicar um brasileiro pouco conhecido e com um trabalho atual muito relevante em arte literária: Paulo Cantarelli.

@caracarlson-roberts6325

5 ай бұрын

I’ll take Ben McEvoy and the very great, sublime Harold Bloom - may he rest in peace.

@JoaoPedroRibeiro-wl2hi

5 ай бұрын

@@otaviow2993 ola, Otávio. Tudo bem, e vc? Obrigado pela indicação; vou procurar AGR msm

I’m a homeschooling mother. I’m reading so many great books to my children and I’m starting a list for their later years in Highschool. This list was helpful. I am going to have to read many of these books myself and then add them to their list. ❤

@jodawgsup

4 ай бұрын

pathetic

@melindalemmon2149

4 ай бұрын

How so? ​@@jodawgsup

@jodawgsup

4 ай бұрын

@@melindalemmon2149 why would you emulate what harvard students in 1983 had to read? it shows some kind of cheap admiration for harvard, rather than critically thinking about the western canon of literature besides that, homeschooling will make sure no other opinion but the parents' will be considered, clearly

@TomTermini

4 ай бұрын

@@jodawgsup "why would you emulate what harvard students in 1983 had to read" ... well, the list mirrors what I read as an undergrad at a state university, contemporaneously. The list is an amazing resource because -- the classics of English poetry are, frankly, timeless. So read away, and enjoy!

@jodawgsup

4 ай бұрын

@@TomTermini and at university, you read these pieces of literature through the lense and interpretation of your mother?

great video! as an literature student i highly appreciated! ❤️

I have just discovered your channel and I am out of my mind excited to get started with my very first book of poetry. I was always intimidated by poetry and thought it was best enjoyed for the really clever and sharp folks. I have been a reader my entire life... some classics, but mostly the current NYT best sellers and non-fiction. My first attempt is going to be Paradise Lost by John Milton.. so excited to give it a go with my annotation supplies in tote as I'm sure I will need them. I am a slow reader and have to look up a lot of words as I go, but I do my best because I love to read . Early in my life, reading was a lifesaver as home life was at times very challenging and I would escape with a book. I can always thank my parents for our home was always full of books, comics, magazines like National Geographic, Time and Life. I can't tell you how Blessed I feel to have found you. God Bless.

@closereadingpoetry

2 ай бұрын

What an awesome comment. Thank you! Let me know how you enjoy Paradise Lost, a tough read even for 17th-century readers. But worth it!

Phenomenal video, thank you for sharing the list and carefully going over it with us!! I'm curious what you add to a section on "1980s to present".

Great vid. Oh the times, they are, a changin'

Great video, really enjoyed it

This is priceless. Thank you for sharing

Thanks for the video! I just subscribed, keep the good work! Sending good whishes from 🇧🇷

Marvellous video sir! I do hope the table to your left is a sturdy one! (Since I've been watching your videos and playing some for my high school classes, I've been curious about your take on Harold Bloom. At some point, it would be interesting to hear your thoughts on Bloom's ideas about literary agon and the anxiety of influence, and whether you think his is a fruitful critical approach.)

@closereadingpoetry

5 ай бұрын

Thanks! He's a great critic, and I admire his work! I may do that.

Excellent review. Thanks

WONDERFUL! Thank you! So many old friends here. I cheered when you mentioned Charles Williams and William Morris. I think that The Book of Common Prayer 1662 is also important (or was) because it informed and coloured so much our spoken English. That was true in Episcopalian America, perhaps to a lesser degree. Thanks for a very educated vlog.

@closereadingpoetry

23 күн бұрын

Thank you! You're absolutely right about the BCP.

I enjoyed this Poetry while studying Poetry at Harvard in 1983. Thank You for the Flashback.

@freexfalling1

4 ай бұрын

Sincere question - how did you manage to consume all of this?? I studied literature at a far less prestigious university in the UK in 2012, and the reading list was a fraction of the size of this Harvard list. I barely found time to read a third of the required reading, attend lectures, read supplementary critical texts, complete written assignments and have some form of social life. I’m considering jumping into the reading list from this video, but I’m certain to would take me over a decade to complete. Were you able to retain a decent knowledge of each text after finishing? Or did you need to just skim read and hope for the best?

Your channel is a treasure trove.

Brilliant video!

Subscribed. Love this !

Really fascinating to re-think the history of the bible and then how that impacts literature. Thanks for your video ❤

I just found this channel. Thank you for sharing. You have a new subscriber. Side note, you have a very nice voice.

Great video and love the selection. This guy looks exactly like who I imagine when I hear the words "Harvard PhD candidate".

@josephr9930

5 ай бұрын

he looks like a 1983 Harvard student. 😃

Just about to start my first semester at my lit and languages major, feels so good to find this before it all starts!

Why does “Dead Poets Society” come to my mind? 😄 Congratulations for the beautiful room in the background.

This is great--thanks for sharing.

This is so great! ❤

I’m thinking towards my undergrad literature thesis, so this list has been deeply interesting to consider! I myself gravitate towards the fractured, fragmented nature of modernist lit, but there’s so much literary history that leads up to that point that this list raises to attention more directly. All the interweaving and building upon that occurs over time makes the writings of Joyce, Faulkner, Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, etc. all the more dense than they appear at first sight. Of course, though, I wish this list looked beyond canonical, majority-White literature to great writing cross-culturally. It’s so easy to see a list like this and devote so much time to such wonderful readings and forget all the other perspectives that have been left out! Also, your cadence here is wonderful! Thank you for the video!

@JustinWayne-ww9ve

5 ай бұрын

Why would you wish that one of the flagship institution of the West seeks not to first immerse their students in the Western tradition? In fact, how would one even be able to apprehend those other cultures without being fully equipped with a deep comprehension of one's own culture?

@eliselauren8490

5 ай бұрын

@@JustinWayne-ww9ve I think there are a number of great, lesser read non-White perspectives that exist within Western lit that are worth reading in addition to the classics that often get read. And then, of course, it’s worth considering that Western lit as a whole didn’t develop in a vacuum- Emerson, for instance, was greatly influenced by the Bhagavad Gita. Looking at other cultures’ writing can also help us understand our own in many ways. Not saying universities ought to cut out all the literature that has been deemed ‘classic’ because this literature is deemed as such for good reason. Clearly, based on my first comment, I’m into it. But we have to be able to look beyond such literature by attending to perspectives left in the margins as well. Always a good practice to consider what’s elided.

Sounds like a fantastic project.

I feel like by finding this channel that i found literally a treasure 🤎 I'm 21 Moroccan, I'm an an English literature student in my third year , this channel is so inspirational, I can't wait for the next videos, thank youuuuuuu so much 🤎🤎🤎

This is amazing , thanks a lot !!! I would love to see you collaborating with Ruby Granger :)

Hi Adam! I didn’t know you were on KZread, so imagine my surprise when your face appeared in my recommendations. I hope you’re doing well, and thanks for making a great video!

@closereadingpoetry

2 ай бұрын

Hey, Anna! So good to see you on here, too!

Thanks for the gems!

Love your enthusiasm for English lit.

Oh cool channel ! I am a French and a masters degree in literature. I am glad to expand my knowledge through channels like this

Hello! What a good way to practice english!!!!! You win a new suscriber. Hugs from Argentina.😊

Thank you so much, if it isn’t too much trouble, would there be a way for us to get the entire list? Thanks again, I’m greatly enjoying this.

@closereadingpoetry

5 ай бұрын

just pinned the comment with a link to a list!

I'm an Arabic native & I hold a BA English Linguistics & Literature & English poetry & Arabic poetry alike are of interest, but, I struggled to find an English community or communion of poetry just as us Arabs we really value poetry & we're divided to traditionalists & dissenters in poetry & poetics just as hiw Westerners who are divided to conservatives & progressives in politics. I think as a muslim myself & someone who recites Quranic verses, the bible is familiar to me & the biblical allusions in English literary works are not that uncanny, but Greek & Roman mythology & philosophy & overall classics I need to acquaint myself with, I read the Republic by Plato & I have poetics by Aristotle. There are Classical Arabic texts that had assisted me in my journey with English studies ( I'm a grad of the British Open University by tbe way) & they're relevant to literary criticism, poetics & translation. Apologies for the long comment, but you don't know how it is like how shall I express it a hidden gem maybe to find a passionate & energetic & well knowledgeable specialist in poetry like you, so thank you so much your effort is highly appreciated.

This is fantastic. I went to a public university in New Jersey in the mid-1990's and we had to read and be familiar with many of these same books.

Excellent content! I feel like there is a Harvard academic position in your future. I've only started developing an interest in poetry post-retirement but I'm aware of those poets mentioned, had zilch awareness of the poetry criticism texts. Kudos for mentioning women poets of those eras. I have more of an interest in Australian contemporary poets, particularly indigenous and multicultural women poets, if I buy a new collection, I buy their work as a small form of support. But I'm interested in poetry criticism and look forward to watching more of you content.

Great talk ❤

I am grad Lit student too at Unisyd :3 thank you so much for such a great video!!

Truly wonderful, years ago I would read the local library loan, "The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900", a personal favorite and must-have for any poetry lover. My graduate degree is in Near Eastern Studies, which involved reading poetry in the original Persian language, but I love and appreciate poetry from around the world.

Sehr interessantes Video!👌🏼

Next year I plan on reading even more books then I even did this year, and this list was very helpful and I really enjoyed it. Also you seem a little too smart to be in Harvard Adam, but I hope it helps you in life.

16:49 I think about how, if we zoom out to look at a larger picture of humanity (&/or history), it seems to me that it is almost as if all these great poets and authors and writers and teachers were having a conversation across time, discussing themes and then elaborating upon these concepts through words (especially seen through the written word) to find some sort of answer to the question of "What does it mean to be human". To be... or not to be.

@closereadingpoetry

6 ай бұрын

well said!

Last part of my research there are two literary techniques used often in poetry similes and metaphor. Father of American poetry is Walt Whitman. Types of poetry are narrative, lyric , dramatic. First American poet is Anne Bradstreet, she was also pioneering. Most famous American poets Emily Dickinson, Robert frost , Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes. Themes of American poetry justice ,war , racism , cultural identity. All of us know Harvard University is one of most prestigious universities in the world. As I read there several poet studied at Harvard University such as Henry brook Adams , Charles Ashbery , Stephen Burt , Rafael campo , Thomas gold Appleton , oni Buchan . I hope I learn a lot from your knowledge. Merry Christmas happy new year. Iam so sorry to be little long but reading and writing both are great ways to improve our English as none native speakers. Good luck to you your dearest ones .

@siamcharm7904

5 ай бұрын

eliot,aiken, cummings, frost, etc

@Khatoon170

5 ай бұрын

@@siamcharm7904I mentioned some of famous poets sir .

Sounds good, I'm off to look at some of these. Quick note: for Seamus Heaney, it's pronounced like hee-nee, and his name would even be unrecognisable as hay-nee if said in Ireland. Pronunciation is very important for Irish names, already forcibly Anglicised by our nearest neighbours, and especially important for a poet whose works are often concerned with colonialism.

@MagisterialVoyager

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for the info! As a native Asian, whose country had to use alphabet from colonisation, I feel that and am genuinely helped with pronunciation of names of other cultures.

@leannichleirigh2607

5 ай бұрын

Maith thú a Sheáin.

Who says KZread’s algorithms aren’t good at recommendations? This is my first time watching your KZread channel and it’s a great channel. 50:32 Also, thanks for saying what you said about him. His undo and the overly exaggerated view of the authority of his opinions needs to be called out.

i respect what you said about Mr. Poe. Everyone approaches the world and art uniquely. Some past scholars thought that great poetry was quantifiable with statistics, meter and rhyme. I approach it in my own way, does it haunt me, thrill me, entertain me, inspire me, and even convict me? I critique my fellow poets on allpoetry daily. There is hidden and also professional talent there. More so, there are people who write the way i used to write, and I like to build them up instead of to tear them down. And the ones who are lonely and sad and just pittiful? I try to encourage them and give them pity. Who knows, maybe they will become a great poet one day? But what if they do not? We all say that what we do is not where our value lies. But in this world we still behave and are treated as if what we do and have is the sum of our worth. It can be overcome. if you don't mind, i am posting a recent poem as a reply to this comment. i hope you like it, if not, lol, that's okay, we are unique, as it should be, right?

@gristlevonraben

5 ай бұрын

The Jewels of Autumn I walk slowly, with my dark blue jacket draped lightly over my arm, and I look up and see a star-filled sky with a low, radiant, cornflower-blue persisting. A few more steps and I pause to breathe in the aromas of recent storms mingling with chimney spice and rain-washed streets and sidewalks, both, littered with leaves not yet crunchy under foot, but pliable, yielding, lovingly soft. I am standing in a citrus glow, under orange and pale yellow leaves, some, gently falling around me and this dimmed street lamp diffusely spotlighting the curb. I find my memories are distant, like looking across this yard, into our dining room, at loved ones gathered around the table, but the lights are yellowed and slightly faded, like the pages of an old novel, there are no sounds of speech, only outbursts of laughter, and the nearby crickets, singing to each other in their grassy forests. In that room, I sit there, speaking, evoking grins. Why then, is the pain so sharp in the strain to make myself say something better than I did, something helpful, nicer? I remember how I hurt them, how good it felt to hurt those who had hurt me, but now, I can see how young they were, how young I was,.. am. All was warranted, but it was not the best things I could have said. Who will see this, read this? In a million years, will it exist? Will they learn from my pain, Or will they haunt their dim memories, a ghost, not yet ready to walk into paradise, Like me? Dearest God, it is burdensome, knowing these things, it is difficult for me to withstand this possessive adoration for them, because of what you have shown me, it is unnerving to know the worth of these jewels; the leaves, the stars, and all the people among them.

@closereadingpoetry

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. It's really a touching poem expressing what we all have felt (or must feel) at times. I always feel it as a prelude to departure. Loved that phrase "cornflower-blue persisting." Is that a reference to Novalis's blaue blume?

@gristlevonraben

5 ай бұрын

wow, no, but having looked it up, i am going to watch that movie this weekend if possible. the scenery in my poems are taken from real life, though the subject matter can be exaggerated or fictional. it is often the mood of the atmosphere around me that ignites a creative spark in my imagination, though i can, like everyone, use prompts. i am extremely new to your channel, if you have any poetry i would love to read it. i am a nice and honest critic, trying to build people up! 🙂@@closereadingpoetry

@gristlevonraben

5 ай бұрын

i should have said documentaries, but there is a film that came up first in my search, which i am looking for. i hope you have a wonderful christmas.

I am enjoying this just as much for ASMR relaxation as the information. Strange.

any secret britney homies make it?

It would be great to find a similar list from Harvard today and compare.

@mgb5170

5 ай бұрын

It doesn't carry classics to the same extent. It's why people are questioning education there anymore

@beninchicago5871

5 ай бұрын

@@mgb5170 Maybe because literate people are politically dangerous?

@blazel462

5 ай бұрын

harvard has turned into a woke joke…

@davidhawkins416

5 ай бұрын

​@@beninchicago5871you got it

@Mercutiossword

5 ай бұрын

@@blazel462 I'm in grad school in NY and i believe we need to be aware of systemic issues with race and injustice but liberal arts education is dying. It used to be a place of ideas where different schools of thought come together and there was an inevitable benefit to meeting people who didn't think like you or have your background. Now there is this neoliberal left wing orthadoxy that wants to tell you what you have to think and what you're allowed to say and if you don't conform they try to use the pressure of the group to make you. It's disgusting. I'm used to that garbage from the right. This is new and I want no parts of it. I love ideas. I lean classically left and liberal but I'll make my own mind up thank you and I have no tolerance for those who use mobs to shout down dissent left or right. Debate, respond, use your voice to respond but you don't get to silence. We've lost reason. We've tried to use force to drive ideas we don't like underground which only helps them metasticize in their own echo chambers. This is not the way. Additional related book recommendations: The Righteous Mind and The Coddling of the Arnerican Mind by Jonathan Haidt.

On Shakespeare, you, yourself, will enjoy the following three: Carolyn Spurgeon's Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us, Miriam Joseph's Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language, and Wolfang Clement's Shakespeare's Imagery. Of course, there are so many (and more every year) but I cannot not mention them any time we're recommending Shakespeare studies. I hope you do well in the field you choose, but be careful as there are a lot of landmines in front of a graduate in English. Also, I hope you had a chance to study with Paul Cantor, one of my favorites, who almost always has something nice to say about Harold Bloom.

@closereadingpoetry

6 ай бұрын

Spurgeon's and Sister Joseph's books are timeless! I will have to track down Clement's. Thanks. Let's keep this list going.

@jamesduggan7200

6 ай бұрын

For Clement, Berlin, c. 1938 - about the same time Dr. Spurgeon was publishing at Oxford.

Thank you.

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As a student of literature who is not Christian, this discussion was extremely illuminating. I have read the New Testament, but I will try and read the recommended books from the King James Bible, if God allows it. I read Sufi and Eastern poetry and I feel like they would have also been familiar with the Bible as you have said. World poetry is divine with a mythos for all of mankind, a gift for all readers from all religions. I enjoyed the video a lot and will definitely read as much of the wonderful classic poetry mentioned in this video, many of which I haven't actually read, but definitely have heard of.