Thank you so much for your sharing knowledge with others. I just finished reading Thomas Hardy’s “Far from madding crowd “ and found out that the title came from Thomas Gray’s poem. So I looked it up and here’s this poem! I wanted to learn more about this poem and with good fortune I found your wonderful channel. I learned so much thanks to you and am very grateful. English is not my first language,so I always have to make an extra effort to try to comprehend well. I do enjoy reading and any help I can get I do appreciate it. Thanks again and continue on your great work .
I stumbled across this as I was preparing to teach the poem in my high school Brit Lit class. Wonderfully structured and presented! I especially appreciate the sensitivity to textual details.
I’ve started to watch this and hope it is as good as your recent episode on Milton (even though Milton tends to leave me cold, or lukewarm at best). I’m going to have to finish this one at the weekend. These longer episodes are great, but I do need to set aside time to read the poems beforehand and then watch them properly.
I heard Rowan Williams, who besides being the former Archbishop of Canterbury is a first class poet and poetry critic, describe good poetry as ‘slowing the metabolism of language’, which I thought was a wonderful phrase. Certainly it is applicable here. Another enlightening Close reading. And a rather more enjoyable poem (for me) than Lycidas.
On another note, I'm wondering whether Gray, despite his obssessive allusiveness(which Romantics don't care for very much), can be regarded as a precursor of Romanticism. His glorfication of the rurual and the common people seems to have a lot in common with what Wordsworth/Coleridge claim in their preface to Lyrical Ballads.
He is considered as a pre-Romantic poet,While he wasn't a perfect representation of the Romantic sense, his emphasis on common people, nature/countryside, and most importantly emotions over a rational representation especially during the enlightenment period makes him a precursor of Romanticism. Of course the periods overlap with each other, while most consider the french revolution and the publication of lyrical ballads as the official start of Romanticism in literature it started and evolved times ago, especially with the works of Blake or even Horace Walpole with his Gothic works.
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Thank you so much for your sharing knowledge with others.
I just finished reading Thomas Hardy’s “Far from madding crowd “ and found out that the title came from Thomas Gray’s poem.
So I looked it up and here’s this poem! I wanted to learn more about this poem and with good fortune I found your wonderful channel.
I learned so much thanks to you and am very grateful.
English is not my first language,so I always have to make an extra effort to try to comprehend well.
I do enjoy reading and any help I can get I do appreciate it.
Thanks again and continue on your great work .
I stumbled across this as I was preparing to teach the poem in my high school Brit Lit class. Wonderfully structured and presented! I especially appreciate the sensitivity to textual details.
I’ve started to watch this and hope it is as good as your recent episode on Milton (even though Milton tends to leave me cold, or lukewarm at best). I’m going to have to finish this one at the weekend. These longer episodes are great, but I do need to set aside time to read the poems beforehand and then watch them properly.
I heard Rowan Williams, who besides being the former Archbishop of Canterbury is a first class poet and poetry critic, describe good poetry as ‘slowing the metabolism of language’, which I thought was a wonderful phrase. Certainly it is applicable here. Another enlightening Close reading. And a rather more enjoyable poem (for me) than Lycidas.
Very insightful interpretation! I wonder whether it's possible for Adam to recommend some articles or books on this poem.
On another note, I'm wondering whether Gray, despite his obssessive allusiveness(which Romantics don't care for very much), can be regarded as a precursor of Romanticism. His glorfication of the rurual and the common people seems to have a lot in common with what Wordsworth/Coleridge claim in their preface to Lyrical Ballads.
He is considered as a pre-Romantic poet,While he wasn't a perfect representation of the Romantic sense, his emphasis on common people, nature/countryside, and most importantly emotions over a rational representation especially during the enlightenment period makes him a precursor of Romanticism. Of course the periods overlap with each other, while most consider the french revolution and the publication of lyrical ballads as the official start of Romanticism in literature it started and evolved times ago, especially with the works of Blake or even Horace Walpole with his Gothic works.
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