I want to add my voice to the others. Thank you on behalf of the watchers for sharing this. Poetry is my favorite art form and you make it entertaining and educational at the same time. I come to this channel after work and I always walk away from it feeling more human. So a cheer for Adam as he seeks to revive the human spirit.

@closereadingpoetry

2 ай бұрын

So kind of you to say. Thank you!

The way you deliver these lectures by deep diving into the critical analysis then flowing into reading the works with so much passion and love for the subject, it’s like poetry in and of itself.

@closereadingpoetry

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! ❤️

I want to thank you, ☺ because your channel is one of the coolest I have found on KZread, your deep analysis and your readings have made me appreciate poetry much more and see more beauty in it, thank you! You are great! 👏

Appreciated to your effort. It's really insightful :)

Great lecture!

Thanks Adam

Thank you mr Adam for your wonderful cultural literary channel. As if i am real university student. As always iam gathering information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s victorian poetry it’s examines poetry in victorian period ( 1830 - 1914 ) from range of theoretical/ critical angles . At that time poetry focused of all classes and genres in Britain and commonwealth. Aspects of victorian poetry from narrative and length over short , lyric poems were popular in romantic poetry. They emphasized imagery less , instead they focused on meter and rhythm. Themes were much realistic, identifying emotions such as isolation, despair, general pessimism. Victorian poetry is important because stories of victorian literary era are full of universal themes that modern readers can still connect with, such as finding purpose, or place in world , feelings nostalgic for time gone by . Characteristics of victorian poetry are nature of beauty, goodness or human achievement, modes of coping with death . Father of victorian poetry is Alfred lord tennyson. The difference between modern and victorian poetry is victorian era witnessed some epoch incidents, had some convictions and deals with life while modern poetry is seen total break down of old faith, idealism, convictions. Last victorian poets are yeats , browning. Victorian female poets are Elizabeth Barrett browning, Christina Rosetta? Brontë sisters. Medievalism or medieval revival was cultural movement that encompassed art , architecture, politics, literature and even facial hair . It’s admired drew inspiration of Middle Ages , which were perceived as being purer , both spiritually and aesthetically.

@Khatoon170

2 ай бұрын

Last part of my research Robert browning is English poet from victorian age , noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue, psychological portraiture. Dramatic monologue in his poem ( my last duchess) engages with work of art and in this case dramatizes viewers responses to art work . In his poem spoken by one person, it’s dramatic in sense that another person is present listening to speaker words which are shared with wider audience and readers. He he wrote two dramatic Monologue poems such as caliban upon setbos, soliloquy of Spanish foister and porphyria lovers. As well as other poems in men and women are just handful of browning monologues . Matthew Arnold he is English poet and cultural critic. Genre social, literary, religious criticism. His notable works are scholar gipsy, thyrsis, culture and anarchy, literature and dogma . Sea of faith diminishing influence of Christianity. In 19 th century poem Dover beach in which poet expresses regret that belief in supernatural world is slowly slipping away . Sea of faith is with drawing like ebbing tide . Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information and improve our English as well .

I’ve been watching the Yale Courses of Amy Hungerford on postwar lit, and Paul Fry on theory. I completely agree that this field feels to an outsider like religion for secular people. There’s a a dogmatically fraught quality to how literary art is approached these days. Literary relics are venerated, rather than enjoyed, and the priests and theologians of the various sects within literary studies, seek to burn each other at the stake.

Would you not consider the poetry of Thomas Hardy (especially the fatalistic "Hap" which stands as a stark buttress against Romanticism and Victorian moralism equal to Arnold's "Dover Beach") harkening toward the themes of Modernism? Sigh, not even a mention of Hardy as a novelist of the Victorian period makes this reader melancholic enough to mourn her existence on this "blighted" star. Thank you for the lecture--I'm always down to enjoy the works of Robert Browning and Matthew Arnold, if not my man, Thomas Hardy.

@closereadingpoetry

2 ай бұрын

Ah, no. I'm sorry! I had to kill a few of my darlings for this one as well. Hardy is a great poet for all the reasons you mentioned and more. I'll have to give him his due in a lecture of his own sometime.

'Rain'? Do you mean reign?

@closereadingpoetry

2 ай бұрын

Yes; the CC are automated.

I wonder if the Victorians liked King Arthur so much because his kingdom was tragically two-faced like theirs: the epitome of chivalry, his court was really a hotbed of scandal; a Christian knight, he came to the throne by the tricks of a pagan wizard; father of a nation, he himself was sterile, except through incest; a hero of the English, he might have fought the English historically. He lived right at the brink of the Dark Ages, and his decline and death are the focus of the most well-known works about him. A defining trait of the Victorians was also their hypocrisy: they upheld charity and care for the poor, all while hand-wringing about the deep, dark truths of Darwinism; they loved their country manors bought with money made in the city; they cared oh so much about moral hygiene, yet remain notorious for brothels and sodomy; they prized good etiquette as some sort of hedge against human depravity, yet so many of their writers were obsessed with seediness and decadence; they took the trappings of yesteryear’s Romanticism and turned it into their own brand of conventionalism. Like King Arthur, though doomed, I guess some Victorian poets did try to be brave at the end of an age and smuggle in as many beloved things as they could into the modern world. Without their efforts, I wonder if we’d even have genres like Fantasy and Horror (and for that matter, the study of English literature!) in anything like the form they exist in today.

@closereadingpoetry

2 ай бұрын

That's a really great connection!