this is a beautiful lecture, thank you. your care and emotion when reading the poems is touching
@caitlincassidyy2 жыл бұрын
So glad this was uploaded again. Excellent lecture. I’m a huge Plath fan.
@daniellewieners475010 ай бұрын
Me too, I finally got the nerve to send my mother Daddy
@TheAnnayin2 жыл бұрын
I watched this years ago and now watch it again… always touched. Thank you!
@lanr2402 Жыл бұрын
A million likes couldn’t do you the justice for uploading these for everyone to see. Your lecture on Eliot will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you
@roadlesstraveled342 ай бұрын
I don't have a knack for poetry, I'm learning, but I like her use of the word 'effacement' in a poem about a new baby and mother; it feels so apt. Effacement is what the cervix does during birth. Most people know of dilation, I think less know about effacement. It felt like an Easter egg kind of, like a hidden surprise.
@syedaizazbokhari2 жыл бұрын
AWESOME! Please upload more regularly sir.
@taylorj25747 ай бұрын
I've listened to this several times over the past six years -- wonderful lecture!
@iqiwq Жыл бұрын
how can we make this super man read a lecture on every book on this planet please
@susancarolalbert61918 ай бұрын
Thank you so much, absolutely brilliant.
@youssefmalak45042 жыл бұрын
Hey i had this lecture last week 🙂
@adilariasat9437 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful...am touched!
@daniellewieners475010 ай бұрын
Thankyou
@roadlesstraveled342 ай бұрын
One other thing. I had a marriage similar to Plath and Hughes. I do not believe she would be happy with her married name being taken off in any manner from her tombstone or elsewhere. She died so soon after their separation that I'd call it 'incomplete;' primary seperations rarely take. I was adopted. I understand feeling a lack of identity, and her married name was a piece of identity puzzle. Whether one's intentions in taking 'Hughes' off were good or not, it was actually selfish and short-sighted.
@penelopegreene Жыл бұрын
I didn't finish your take on Woolf to hear this.
@jogolord8122 Жыл бұрын
Good work. I liked that
@pova-lr6nx2 жыл бұрын
Any updated thoughts on Plath or Hughes in light of Plath's letters and journal entries alleging that Hughes was quite abusive and possibly responsible for her miscarriage? I know personally it has sullied Hughes and The Birthday Letters in particular for me quite a bit...
@NickMount2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. I wouldn't give quite the same lecture today, at least as regards their lives.
@syedaizazbokhari2 жыл бұрын
@@NickMount Sir I am a student of English Literature from Pakistan. I was introduced to you here on KZfaq. I watched your lecture on 'Waiting for Godot'. You have tremendous value to offer students of Literature across the world. Can you please record and upload your lectures regularly and frequently like Dr Jordan Peterson. First it will be priceless for students of Literature all over the world. You make people fall in love with English Literature. My younger brother just finished high school, he was going for an undergraduate management science degree, after showing him your lecture on 'Waiting for Godot' he has now changed his mind and has applied for BS English program here at National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan! Second, with regular uploads your KZfaq channel can skyrocket in popularity which can then easily be monetized and would bring in good passive income for you. I will assist you managing/maintaining it. Please consider. Thank you so much!
@NickMount2 жыл бұрын
@@syedaizazbokhari Many thanks, Syed. I really just use this channel to share recordings of my lectures made by others, in this case TVO (TV Ontario). These lectures take many months--years, really--to write so I don't have an endless supply of them. I'm not Jordan Peterson, nor was meant to be. :)
@syedaizazbokhari2 жыл бұрын
@@NickMount I understand. Thank you. Eagerly waiting for new uploads. Regards and Love from Pakistan ❤
@rstokes96302 жыл бұрын
100%. The book Red Comet about Plath describes a clinically depressed, lonesome woman in a country not her own. Abandoned with two small children and the spector of electroshock therapy and being institutionalized. Ted Hughes was partially responsible for what happened.
@classicalcashew62662 жыл бұрын
❤
@madhavborkar7472 жыл бұрын
The lecture reveals the inner fabric of plath poetry. Very enlightening.
@thechesssavage64002 жыл бұрын
This is salemanship
@roadlesstraveled342 ай бұрын
One other thing. I had a marriage similar to Plath and Hughes. I do not believe she would be happy with her married name being taken off in any manner from her tombstone or elsewhere. She died so soon after their separation that I'd call it 'incomplete;' primary seperations rarely take. I was adopted. I understand feeling a lack of identity, and her married name was a piece of identity puzzle. Whether one's intentions in taking 'Hughes' off were good or not, it was actually selfish and short-sighted.