Damn this is some exciting homework. Anyone else watching this for tomorrow?

Seeing all the comments about GCSE homework and I'm here watching this for Uni English lit! That's right kids! It doesn't get any better than this! **crys in to keyboard**

this comment section makes my homework a bit more bearable, thank you guys :))

Am I the only guy here who doesn't have homework? Just watching this because I enjoy reading the romantics?

For everyone that's here because of school. EVERYTHING you know about love today comes from the romantics. The fact that you marry someone you love comes from them, the fact that sex is an act of love comes from them, the concept of soul mates and love at first sight. The concept that your intuition will tell you who to marry and that your partner should accept you for who you are, flaws and all. NONE of that existed before the romantics. Everything you think you know about love and relationships comes from them. The romantic philosophers of the 18th century had such a profound effect on society that people now grow up believing it as fact and take their philosophy as the word of God when it comes to relationships.

The students who are “suffering” through this documentary remind me of the Mark Twain quote… “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ~ Mark Twain

Okay so my English literature class just finished and my professor recommended we watch this BBC documentary to get a better idea of the Romantics. We'll be studying Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly, Blake etc. this semester and I have to say I'm quite excited!

Pov: you're suffering for English Homework

pov: your here from an english lesson

The Romantics is a BBC documentary series presented by Peter Ackroyd, exploring the turbulent story of the pioneers of modern imagination: their private pleasures, personal dreams and political passions. The series follows the growth of the Romantic idea through three episodes: Liberty, Nature, and Eternity. The main focus is the work and lives of some of the giants of the Romantic movement, William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The main character however, is the idea itself, how it is relayed, how it affects change in people and in the world itself. Episode 1 - Liberty This episode explores the birth of the individual in modern society, through the work and lives of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Episode 2 - Nature This episode examines the birth of the modern notion of nature, through the work and lives of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley. Episode 3 - Eternity This episode tells the story of a search for meaning, in a world without God, through the work and lives of John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley.

Its been 7 years now since this was released and students including me still suffering. I wonder how the producer was tortured by his teacher.

‘the spirit had been clapping its ass for joy’ lol @ 9:31

Guys this is much more bearable if you turn off this video and watch anything else

Love this. I just retired and am redoing all my old college courses. Only this time, I’m doing the homework.😀😏😀

Great documentary from Peter Ackroyd.

Really enjoyed this, romanticism and the romantics have influenced so much of the modern world, in art, nature, philosophy, poetry and architecture.

This documentary just saved my life.

I love this documentary! I love reading the Romantics and this series was very informative.

Wow! I love this. It grabs my attention.

Simply beautiful ❤

thank you

anyone that has to watch this for homework (eng lit gcse), put it on 1.5x speed, it's a bit more bearable :)

coorrrrr this is class

Wonderful documentary

Hello Beths Grammar School, Ms Clough is glad that you came here

Oh shit better grab the popcorn 😄🍿

3:18 Bro can you move out the way people trying to get to work

Enjoyed this

As a University graduate that took the Arts I find it hilarious that people would be bored by this video it's very excellent and just says more about their lack of intelligence than anything

I am an English Teacher and I've asked my Elective English students to watch this video. If you watched it dear students, please comment here :) Thank you for the enlightening video, BBC.

This is not homework! This is fascinating :)

Reading only half of the coments made me sickened by the products "who call themselves human", how marvelous that you have your smart phones to entertain youselves and ignore the world around you, the modern world has indeed produced numb, halfwits seeking to drug themselves on the latest thrill, devouring food without exersizing, consuming plastic without recycling, critisizing artists without feeling for them.

lmaoo anybody else get this shit for online work?

You can listen to it in 1.5 X speed and it still seems slow

Great minds are chosen, and Greatness showers from above. They are the Chosen Romantics.

Thank you a lot, I'm trying to fall in love with romantics and this video has helped me a good deal. I only wish real Wordsworth didn't look as spooky as he did in this video.

I've always been slightly envious of William Blake, I've experience strange things, paranormal, one ufo, many moments and dreams of clairvoyance and i am a big enthusiast of Blake's artwork and always to copy his paitings with pencil. Having all those visions he had, i wonder did he eat well and somehow have a cleansed Pineal gland?, or was he schizophrenic?; if he died in this day and age you would of had someone wanting to examine his brain, the same thing that happened to Einstein after his died.

My brain is numb, I better get a good grade on my eng lit GCSE !!

I’m obsessed with them. This is my Egyptology.

Oh no the spirit man has got me help!!!

Wordsworth is very much alive in the States, where the subject of most poetry, following in his wake, is the poet's own subjectivity. This is true even in personal essays, where the emphasis is more on reproducing, rather than recording, particular experiences. It's a difference that's more easily felt in side-by side comparisons, than is to describe. One more inhabits the writer's own perspective when in the recollecting mood, and in so doing enjoys an immediacy of communion with them that would not be possible by less introspective means. One thing this documentary does get right is in its portrayal of Wordsworth as a young man who sought extreme experiences in wild places, as far away from civilization as he could get without suicidal abandonment to the risks of doing so. They also got it right that it was, in his time, a strange and radical thing to do, while now it's practically what's expected of hardy and well-to-do dudes with a taste for going to the heights and so-forth. I'm not like that and prefer to stay put as a Khan amidst suburban creature-comforts, but I've known more than one guy who finds the perspective much too confining for imaginative comfort.

Maybe another video should include Keats and Shelley as well..

If one has the inclination; highly recommend reading William Blake. The highlight of my life, was watching Allen Ginsberg, sing Blake live with a lap organ... Heavenly ❤

If you don't like this video, that's perfectly fine. If you do like it, that's fine too. No one's more intelligent than someone else based on whether or not they like a specific documentary. I personally don't like this documentary, but I like the information in it, I just feel it could've been presented better. I've seen so many people (presumably adults) bully, mock and attempt to ridicule or shame teens in the comments, calling them names and insulting their intelligence. Just because they may not like this doesn't mean that they can't be smart.

Wonderful documentary...evocative and artistic.

On my second view of this brilliant documentary. There's many more amazing Romantic poets to discover

mint vid

Wordsworth 22:45

i had no idea mount tambora had such a dark influence on western mind into darkness.. i wondered where byron got his inspirations. seemingly those fears were very real, i knew of the effects of the industrial revolution, but i had no idea the volcano in indonesia altered a whole summer weather pattern in england. thank you for this!

The Romantic Movement was one of the most important events of humanity at all! It brought us away from soul sicknes, stupidity and errant sin....🦇

The BBC did a great series recently on the romantics but I can't find it on iPlayer anymore. Anyone know where to find it?

Brilliant documentary ‼️👌🏻🙂

the comments lol am i one of the only people watching this for enjoyment lol

Wow!!! It is an amazing and informative documentary, Thanks.

Please, where are the other videos, about death and night?

Brilliant series,thanks.

No one reads Wordsworth, Shelly etc. Except a few students of English and German Literatures.

William Blake...controversially, William O'Neill... That William Blake was of Irish descent was asserted by W.B. Yeats and Edwin J. Ellis in their landmark edition of Blake’s works in 1893, from which the modern study of the poet derives. The notion of Blake’s Irish origin was not Yeats invention. In the introduction he wrote to an edition of Blake’s poems published in The Muses Library in 1905 he provides an epitome of the theory. “Early in the 18th Century, a certain John O’Neill got into debt and difficulties, these latter apparently political to some extent; and escaped both by marrying a woman named Ellen Blake, who kept a sheebeen at Rathmines, Dublin, and taking her name. He had a son James, I am told, by a previous wife or mistress, and this son also took the name of Blake, and in due course married, settled in London as a hosier, and became the father of five children one of whom was the [poet William Blake]. John O’Neill had also a son by his wife Ellen; and this son, settling in Malaga, in Spain, entered the wine trade, and became the founder of a family, and from one of this family, Dr Carter Blake, I have the story.” This, to an Irish mind, seems a very reasonable descent. The best that modern scholarship can report is that Blake’s grandfather was a James Blake, gentleman, of Rotherhithe, of whom little is known.

Beautiful and awe-inspiring.

This seems to be "Part 2". Would you let me know where to find Part 1? This is extremely well-written.

I love documentaries but being forced to watch all three of these documentaries for English kind of takes the fun out of it 😂😂😂

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It’s amazing, awesome,so realistic to understand romanticism

Thank you for this - I enjoyed it greatly although I can't agree with the statement that the way we relish a sunset is something that we have learned from the romantics. I cannot doubt that people have been relishing sunsets well before Wordsworth (whom I've never rated highly but perhaps understand a little better now)!

i dont want to suffer any more

Artists are one hope for humankind to escape the heinous claws of Google, Facebook, Twitter....

TRIPLE SPEED! TRIPLE SPEED!

This is a very informative documentary...but....there are too many pauses and they are too long. So, in 50 minutes, I think they could've given much more info

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I'll wait for the book to come out. More up close,& personal, less noise, & visual jumble.

The fuzziness of this video brings me physical pain...

this is better than doing an essay......but still bruh

the quality is fire in this one

What’s with all the videos being super old? Can’t they make us watch more modern videos ?

why is it in 240p 😫

And I am here, not for homework,but for poetry

The Frankenstein Chronicles on Netflix is a good show.

Oh No! It's Dudley Sutton!

im going to scream im only 17 minutes in

what notes should i take

The romantics wrote the Most beautiful Poems of humanity. I live to Read Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Victor Hugo, Alphonse de Lamartine, André Chénier, Alvares de Zevedo, Castro Alves, Manoel Bandeira, Almeida Garrett, Camoes, Goethe, Holderlin and many others.

is this the second or third episode?

11:56 the parents.. Ice in the fucking veins

This is almost as entertaining as watching paint dry

Two really rare things: 1.) solar eclipse, 2) the fact that somebody (in this case me) is not here for English homework

Feel sad for the children at that time.

The overly dramatic style of this thing is way over the top, and distracting from the information. Hard to watch.

My favorite part is when they're filming the reading of a poem in a modern sewing shop. And there's some post of a a sexy male model on one of the desks.

This is the best homework I've ever had!

can someone make this video just an audio without all the background music and dramatic pauses

Speak to me you stones.

Music makes a lot of noise ..

these man are tapped 45:30

We not on,y learn about the sublime in nature from the romantics, as this doc quotes, but by the pagans too...

1.5x speed. That is all you need to know.

The gothic special effects and ambiance music is really off-putting.

No, the Germans pioneered it, think Goethe and Schiller, but closer behind them was the English. Yeah, I know, it is "Not invented here." But this leaves out the eruption of Mt. Tomboro, which shifts the emphasis of the romantic. Thus the mid-period works have a ferocity that was not present in the earlier works. I am thinking of "The Mask of Anarchy", the 9th Symphony of Beethoven &c. Poor judgment from a fine network.

Ma si può???!?!? Un ora di nature relationship sprecata.

here from school anyone else

Prepare for comments by lots of trolls who are "bored" because they can only watch hip hop videos and others who see themselves as geniuses of film making pretending to be giving a grade to the editing