La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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La Belle Dame Sans Merci

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Malcolm Guite

Күн бұрын

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@AndHeShallReignForeverAndEver 8 ай бұрын

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!

@MalcolmGuitespell 8 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. "

@thecommontoad59 3 жыл бұрын

That Keats poem is so beautiful

@MalcolmGuitespell 3 жыл бұрын

it is indeed!

@yesimyemenici7587 2 жыл бұрын

I have goosebumps hearing this luminous reading

@ellen823ful Жыл бұрын

A very beautiful poem.

@dalepiper6693 3 жыл бұрын

The fruit of that memorable walk on the Heath...wonderful.

@MalcolmGuitespell 3 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_esquire 3 жыл бұрын

Wondrous stuff! Thank you for your thoughts, and for sharing.

@MalcolmGuitespell 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening

@sandrofazzolari8833 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating... thanks for sharing. Grazie 🙏 S.

@MalcolmGuitespell 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@sandrofazzolari8833 3 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.

@catinthehat906 3 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?

@MalcolmGuitespell 3 жыл бұрын

I think he was in awe of him and didn't want to presume

@catinthehat906 3 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.

@horacemcleod537 3 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

@MalcolmGuitespell 3 жыл бұрын

my latest post is on my tobacco and pipes!

@CondredgeDole 3 жыл бұрын

Good story!

@brianheffernan8982 3 жыл бұрын

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is great.

@lhasa7 3 жыл бұрын

Merci bien!

@jackhooper3927 3 жыл бұрын

Interface and juxta pose ,,,Illumination!

@onenoggin1883 3 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!

@MalcolmGuitespell 3 жыл бұрын

yes indeed!

@kurtisneilmcinnis8353 3 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?

@chriswilson6352 3 жыл бұрын

indeed. And is it part of a wider narrative where women are temptresses ?

@MalcolmGuitespell 3 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

@kurtisneilmcinnis8353 3 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.

@karenlooby7569 3 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?

@MalcolmGuitespell 3 жыл бұрын

Its a recurring theme, though MacDonald did like Keats!