Just discovered your channel for the first time. I can’t tell you how excited I am to see someone as cultured in poetry, pipe smoking, and good books as you are, especially in this cultureless time we live in now. This is my new favorite KZfaq channel period!
@MalcolmGuitespell8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the encouragement
@tubergetrude333 Жыл бұрын
some years later, Coleridge recounted his meeting with Keats that you described, and said upon shaking Keats hand something to the effect: "There was death in that hand. "
@thecommontoad593 жыл бұрын
That Keats poem is so beautiful
@MalcolmGuitespell3 жыл бұрын
it is indeed!
@yesimyemenici75872 жыл бұрын
I have goosebumps hearing this luminous reading
@ellen823ful Жыл бұрын
A very beautiful poem.
@dalepiper66933 жыл бұрын
The fruit of that memorable walk on the Heath...wonderful.
@MalcolmGuitespell3 жыл бұрын
indeed. I only wish I could have been there. Writing about it in my book was as close as I could get!
@Wilsonn_esquire3 жыл бұрын
Wondrous stuff! Thank you for your thoughts, and for sharing.
@MalcolmGuitespell3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for listening
@sandrofazzolari88333 жыл бұрын
Fascinating... thanks for sharing. Grazie 🙏 S.
@MalcolmGuitespell3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@sandrofazzolari88333 жыл бұрын
@@MalcolmGuitespell I enjoy all of your poetry videos as I am sure many of your views do. Especially your own poetry. Take care, S.
@catinthehat9063 жыл бұрын
My understanding is that Coleridge lived in Highgate with James Gillman from 1816 and at the time Keat's met him on Hampstead Heath Coleridge was walking with a mutual friend Joseph Green, a surgeon who had taught Keats at Guys. What is puzzling to me is that despite their geographical proximity and Keats obvious delight and inspiration from this brief meeting , he did not try and meet Coleridge again. Any thoughts Malcolm?
@MalcolmGuitespell3 жыл бұрын
I think he was in awe of him and didn't want to presume
@catinthehat9063 жыл бұрын
@@MalcolmGuitespell I think you are almost certainly right, a shame though as it might have been as salutary for Coleridge as inspiring for Keats. Strangely Keats did not seem to be intimidated by Wordsworth despite the dismissal of Endymion as 'a pretty piece of paganism' at Haydon's dinner in 1817, Keats went on to meet him several times afterward and dined with his family in January 1818.
@horacemcleod5373 жыл бұрын
I have just ordered your book "Mariner". Hope to get it in a couple of weeks. Here in South Africa things take a bit longer. Please tell us more about your tobacco and pipes. Regards
@MalcolmGuitespell3 жыл бұрын
my latest post is on my tobacco and pipes!
@CondredgeDole3 жыл бұрын
Good story!
@brianheffernan89823 жыл бұрын
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is great.
@lhasa73 жыл бұрын
Merci bien!
@jackhooper39273 жыл бұрын
Interface and juxta pose ,,,Illumination!
@onenoggin18833 жыл бұрын
Did you fill your bowl with Bombay Court? As good as the Old Toby! The connection/synergy amongst authors is very interesting. Going to have to dust off my copy of Coleridge!
@MalcolmGuitespell3 жыл бұрын
yes indeed!
@kurtisneilmcinnis83533 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the reading. I regularly teach "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and always enjoy it. What is your take on the sincerity of the fairy's love? Does she "love [him] true" or does the "as" of line 19 have sort of an "as if" quality?
@chriswilson63523 жыл бұрын
indeed. And is it part of a wider narrative where women are temptresses ?
@MalcolmGuitespell3 жыл бұрын
I think she 'loves him true' in her own 'faery' terms, but such love is inevitably destructive of human beings - we're not made for it
@kurtisneilmcinnis83533 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your insightful reply. It calls to mind Arwen’s sadness over the inevitability of her outliving Aragorn. The love is true but doomed to sorrow.
@karenlooby75693 жыл бұрын
My daughter and I are reading "Phantastes" by George MacDonald and this poem reminded me of Anodos being deceived by the Maid of the Alder Tree. Was MacDonald influenced by Keats at all or is this simply a recurring theme in the history of humanity?
@MalcolmGuitespell3 жыл бұрын
Its a recurring theme, though MacDonald did like Keats!
@LalGuite5 ай бұрын
Lucy by Shakespeare please Malcolm @MalcolmGuitespell