Malcolm Guite is a national treasure

"The bland leading the bland." Bloody Brilliant !

This man is a teacher, thank you

Mr. Guite, I could hear the love in you especially as you ended. You shared Truth, Love, and Beauty. Thank you!

Malcom is a national treasure ❤❤

The greatest poem of compassion and nonviolence ever written.

When Malcolm talked about what Grace meant to Coleridge, "at that very point when you have given up on yourself, and condemned yourself, a voice comes, something is given, unexpectedly that rises within you..." I think that is what happens to Anodos in 'Phantastes' when he gives up on life and tries to drown himself and is not able to, but rises to the surface and finds a small boat that that takes him to the Faerie Palace. It is a type of baptism, buried in the water, but rising with new life.

Had to put it on pause to say "Fantastic!" What a great find on KZfaq. Major Thumbs Up.

I had heard there was much spiritual significance in this poem but Malcolm Guite does such a beautiful job of unveiling it for us!

Amazing. I have Mariner in my library 📚. I’m going to read it again with new eyes 👀not simply to marvel at the eloquent poetry of this young man but to experience what the logos has to say to me today.

Ian McKellen's emotional Rime reading brought me here ... algorithmically, of course ...

This video is fantastic! Thank you so much!

Magnificent lecture.

Haven't read the poem in maybe 30 years, but listened recently. Realized more and more spiritual messages with each and every reading. Quite a goid job of translating one of Coleridges great works.

Absolutely beautifully put - and on the subject of a mind-blowingly wonderful poet - ... and the wonders of God. Thank you to all involved. This was just riveting. I shall have to cone back several times to all this.

thankyou for great talk i had lot ask but and give me alot ask of my self it give warm filling that god there and we must think over the top of of the professional that indoctrinate us into a state of no god thank you andrew

I’m spending my time reading through the canon of “modern philosophy” these days on audiobook and I did the same with Biographia Literaria. Something I notice in what Malcolm Guite is saying here is the influence of Leibniz (who Kant drew on but critiqued heavily on Humean grounds) and Fichte, Kant’s immediate successor. Leibniz thought of reality (subjects and objects) as all being “soul-like” entities he called “monads” that don’t genuinely interact but develop according to an “internal principle” and whose growth is coordinated by an ever active God. Fichte followed up on Kant with a modification of Descartes’ assertion of existence as a mind. Fichte critiqued Descartes’ argument by saying basically that it was circular, and that it was more accurate to say that the mind, the “I” or the “ego”, to use his terms, exists and is known to exist by its own assertion. Basically there is an assertion “I am” and then the “I” has to figure out precisely what that means. In the Biographia, Coleridge mentions Fichte and Schelling (who was Fichte’s immediate successor). He seems to have preferred Schelling (who I haven’t read yet) but by all accounts Schelling drew from Fichte’s ideas about the “I” but tried to reconcile it with a Spinozian conception of “Nature”. Anyway, just some extra tidbits to throw out there.

Interesting lecture

Wonderful! I've read the poem several times, but this helps to fill in the surrounding air.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the shiznit! And you can bet on that!

There is a bit of a philosophical inconsistency here. Around 1:19:00 he talks about “the sacred distinction between a person and a thing.” But previously, the sharp divide between subject and object that Kant made was criticized.

I was struck off by the name i see, which is Guite, which is an ethnic clan name in Southern Manipur, India.

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Bloody Hell! Get on with it. Cool Dude!

Holley Cloud Bureats " it twas butiefull 'y done thanks

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This was incredible Loved coleridge for years but was not aware of the depth of his philosophy...this is the closest i have heard anyone come to Ibn arabi, the seal of Islamic saints..

Thank you for all of the natures selection that recombines our RNA to a hearing of DNA consitituencies to revitalize the spill of a mothers worthy worlds.

I'm convinced that under all the hair is Bill Oddie!

Father, very well put. For those so cynical as to make Ewok jokes? Less juvenile subjects (Star Wars) for you. If you cannot listen to this man, if you cannot READ Coleridge, perhaps you can listen to this... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNiAZr2mkp61dH0.html. And if not? Shame.

Isn't this Neoplatonism?

The ewoks want their grandad back.

The Ewok's British accent wasnt quite as pronounced.

Preposterous. Read Ted Hughes essay on Coleridge. Christianity was Coleridge's undoing. Guite is not a good poet or critic.

Get a damn shave!