This is an absolutely incredible lecture, very accessible, I found it incredibly insightful and I always find it so helpful and interesting when I have a similar thought to a lecturer whilst reading a novel, and when they then take a simple idea which I have had in passing and expand on it in a more sophisticated way

Professor Mount offers a superb analysis that understands the book as an epic - but on an intimate level, and his insights will enrich any reader’s experience of this great work.

Dear Dr Mount. 2021 Pandemic. I cannot thank you enough. This is positively brilliant. I am really at a loss to say anything else. Beautiful

Thank you for making this public. It's helping to deepen my reading of TTLH.

An insightful interpretation to "To the Lighthouse"! My favourite literary work from the twentieth-century. Woolf's work is symbolic. It brings out the extraordinary ordinariness of everyday mundane life. A novel about life, art and time

This is such a unique captivating lecture. I have been teaching Dramatic Arts on secondary level for over 20 years and tonight, your lecture rekindled the reason why I love teaching. Thank you for reminding me. I needed that.

Thank you Nick Mount for putting in the hard work analysing To The Lighthouse and sharing it with the public. We all benefit from your clever insights, you turned a brilliant novel into an epic. Fantastic well put together lecture . You’re a genius.

Amazing lecture. No words to describe it!! Thank you.

EXCELLENT. I will read this novel again and now truly understand and love all the work that Mr Mount put into this great novel. Thank you for your analysis that has helped me to better understand Virginia Woolf novel. Phenomenal job and so well spoken. ❤

Rarely have I come across a Lecturer as amazing as you. Thank you for your passion and true love for the English Literature. I am a final year student at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and we do not have Lecturers in my opinion who take literature in such depth as you. I love your way of teaching and would love to attend one of your lectures one day. Regards

That was so good, wish I had him as my teacher cause it's the first time I got really interested in that story.

Your knowledge and analysis is commendable. Really enjoyable lecture, professor. Even your pauses are graceful and provide a certain deserving mood to Woolf.

I think this is one of the greatest lectures I have seen in my life, I love Virginia woolf, and you just did a great lecture. thank you!

Outstanding lecture. This is my first time reading To the Lighthouse, as it was assigned reading for a PhD seminar in the Subject-Object dialectic. The parallels drawn between epic poetry/Iliad and the novel were particularly enlightening as was the view of Mrs. Ramsay as Woolf's feminist Penelope. Thank you, Professor Mount.

Beautiful lecture. Thank you very much for making this public.

this was fucking incredible i never thought a lecture could give me jitters there was real intimacy in your voice, your cadence, your emotion, thank you for passing it to me

Wonderful talk on MY favorite novel...what's missing is this - alternately the lighthouse SEEMS close but then far...the lighthouse itself is a character as it sheds light and deprives or flashes explicitly in the novel, much like consciousness itself....In Lily's vision of the final landing, what matters is the end, the work of art (not necessarily a MASTERPIECE) to be hung in an attic, appreciated by a few in her day but possibly discovered in a ransack to be something of value. It's fantastic that what isn't really a GREAT VOYAGE Woolf was certainly able to turn into a crossing of immeasurable distances! What is truly Mr Ramsay's character at the landing, with his children on board, when the narrator suggests his thoughts - "We perished each alone" which is the scenario of drowning OR "I have reached it. I have found it," emphasizing the "I" did it alone in FINDING but the WE in drowning with his own children. So Mr Ramsay achieves his vision as Lily does, but in such radically different ways!

One of the best lectures on Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse... Thank you so much professor... I learned a lot from it.

Possibly the best lecture on a literary work I’ve ever heard! Brilliant! Insightful!

I'm looking forward for your more lectures, particularly your unique research paper presentation... Thanks so much sir!

Thank you, Nick. Woolf's novel comes alive for me via your lecture --- all the way to tropical Philippines. Brilliant.

This is a brilliant analysis! Thank you for making this lecture publicly available!

This is great. I need to re-watch this again, just like I need to re-read the novel itself! thanks

Brilliant insights into one of my favourite novels of all time. Thank you for sharing this!

Thankyou so much for making it available here. It is profoundly informative and poignant.

Thank u so much.. I feel like I too have had my vision though it might be less lasting than the color of the butterfly's wings...such a pleasure to listen to u..

Brilliant connections!

Fantastic.. unbelievably fantastic...thank you

This was wonderful! Thank you for sharing.

This was amazing ! Thank you

I can't get enough of this lecturer...just listened to his take on Godot & The Waste Land & now this. Excellent.

Thank you for uploading your lectures!They help me understand what I am reading more fully. I love the specific examples you make.

I enjoyed this lecture immensely

Beautiful. Thank you

And the great Persian epic, The Book of Kings, by Ferdowsi

Impressive analysis of this work of art. Thank you.

wow, incredible lecture sir. I know understand the novel very well thank you.

Thank you so much Sir. ❤️ THANK U, THANK U, THANK U! 🙏🏻

Wonderful. Thank you!

Brilliant, Thank you Nick Mount. Excellent insight.

Extremely moving and informative lecture. Thank you for all the work you did to create it, deliver it, and make it available to the public.

Fantastic lecture. Thank you!

Thanks for this great insight!!

Thank you for an amazing, inspired and intimate lecture.

thank you so much for this. i have graduated from school but have recently been craving to do some guided deep reading of books so i started watching some book reviews on virginia woolf but they are all not as thick and full and deep as this lecture is :)

Thank you Nick Mount, I learned a lot.

Just... beautiful ❤

Great lecture, so helpful and very interesting...

Thank you, thank you for understanding what she did and still does for the (un)common reader.

Nick, you deserve more subscribers.

Professor Mount is truly a remarkable teacher and presenter. Wish I had an opportunity to take his course.

Thank you

Just finished this book. I love Virginia Woolf.

This was really good.

I agree with the enthusiastic comments. I was also delighted to learn that Woolf did not like feminist categorization. I have never understood why the Room of your own should be called feminist when it argues against such art that interprets the world from a restricted feminine perspective.

Deeply insightful and interesting interpretation to Woolf's "To the Lighthouse".

awesome

What a great lecture, sir. I really like the style you deliver the information in a very smooth manner. Thanks so much

Wonderful. Do you have a transcript available as I would like to reference this lecture.

Thank you for this incredible video! Fascinating. Please do more! Possibly K. Mansfield?

It was good !

Oh we like him

Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” (1927) is a landmark achievement of the twentieth century fiction. When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband and her son. During those ten years, death and misery haunt the Ramsay family. Mrs Ramsay dies. In a sense, the quest to the lighthouse symbolises the inner journey of the characters towards self-realisation and fulfilment of their hopes. It is a symbolic quest or an epic quest of a father and son to realise the “spirituality” and beauty of Mrs Ramsay’s soul. At the same time, Lily Briscoe completes her painting that she has started ten years ago, and her painting becomes an emblem of the immortality of art - Mrs Ramsay lives within Lily’s painting. “To the Lighthouse” which is described as the finest fiction of the twentieth century depicts the inner lives of the characters - the emotional universe of men and women. Woolf’s narrative is fragmented, and her novel is unconventional in its narrative structure. Woolf gives the fragmented, rather disjointed facts about the Ramsay family and allows the reader to build up the story. Besides, it is a novel about feminist spirituality where women are depicted as spiritual, creative and artistic while men possess higher grounds of culture and education.

Thanks. I would just like to mention, that I think it is over-looked how traumatised Wolfe was by the bombing of her home in Bloomsbury. Half the house still stood, and she remarks on seeing the half burned furniture in the living-room. All their memorabilia and books ruined etc. That whole life of theirs was taken away and they had only their memories left, of the gatherings and parties etc. It would have been hard for anyone to bear...but for her, with her fragile mental health, perhaps too much. This could have triggered off her demise ?

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Sir kindly I have two questions regarding this novel...I couldn't sort it out.... kindly help me reply me so that I can my queries here.... please

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I'd love to know this handful of woman writers Woolf considered to be worth calling writers at all. Does anyone know who they are?

I found this an absolutely impossible read. The grammar is just ridiculous. There are a hundred commas and bracketed sections within paragrahps making it difficult to remember what the first part of the paragraph was even about.

he lost me at the whole masculinity=hunting feminity=weather and emotions

Please make videos on parts and explain the whole novel by reading original text please its my humble request ....it will be so helpful if u do...

Stream of consciousness might be a fascination with the avant-garde, but if story has purpose then it must be accessable to the average reader else it falls on deaf ears.

very enlightening Thanks a million