Your Daily Penguin: Percy Bysshe Shelley!
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A video all about Shelley is just what the doctor ordered
brilliant! ive been a fan of Shelley for 50 years...i still read the fantastic Adonais...i went to San Terenzo a few years ago thankyou for sharing this book cheers, dave
As a college student myself, even if they arent taught in schools they are extremely popular among young people who love poetry i assure you. The romantic poets are a favorite of mine! Especially Percy Shelley!
your dog is beauuuutiful. And Byron will always be the most Romantic of the Romantic poets for me!!! ALWAYS. :'D
Excellent thank you 🐶
Hearing the occasional Steve diatribe against the modern trend towards “cancel culture” always reminds me how nice it is that I can at least read whatever I want on my own time, even if no one is teaching it.
The academic establishment in the UK has always been fad led. In the late 60s I was told by a young Professor, the head of z department in the UK, not a lecturer, that "no one reads Dickens nose, Clare" I said znd when you are at the end of your career, students will be studying Dickens again. Here in the UK, they are . Perhaps there's hope for both Shelley and Byron.
As part of the relatively younger generation, I struggle to get into Byron’s longer poems but have really enjoyed Shelley. Maybe it’s because reading almost any aroma tic poetry in the 21st century involves a commitment to vocabulary and allusions, maybe it’s the math teacher enjoying lyrical rhythms . . .
I found a copy of the massive Richard Holmes biography of Shelley and am looking forward to that when I can focus on it.
Thanks as always for continuing to share these!
Thank you. Very interesting especially comparison with Byron. I have always enjoyed the poetry of both but not so familiar with the prose.
Is Shelley really that difficult to interpret though? I get that you are making the point that some of Shelley isn't reader-friendly, but I question whether you might be misreading him. Yet, you still consider this a virtue and praise him for his "elusiveness"? I feel like your opinion is at odds with itself.
I'm in the mood for a friendly challenge on this, Steve. Could you give me an example of a poem or poems that illustrate your point that Shelley "doesn't make sense"? If you have a poem by Keats in the same vane that comes to mind I'll also take that on as well. I will give a reading and we shall see what sense I can make of these so-called nonsense poets; perhaps I can shed some light :-)
I can't give you an example of my point that Shelley "doesn't make sense," since I don't believe that & never made that point (and I doubt I'd go to the bother of answering the question anyway if the asker prefaces it by saying I don't know what I'm talking about - what would be the point?), but in any case, the word I was trying to use here was "allusive," not "elusive" - sorry, that might just be the fault of my New England accent!
@@saintdonoghue What did you mean in this video when you said "A lot of Shelley doesn't make a whole lot of sense?" I'm trying to understand your opinion.
I had 7 years of literature classes in my middle and high school and it was mostly Russians and they were all cis white man. We had zero women in literature classes not even Austen or brontes. From english literature we had only dickens and hardy. it was like 15 years ago. Maybe in USA high schools it’s different but I feel that white cis man are represented in schools. Btw we did have byron in translation because he is a man I guess. 🙂
I had to read Pride and Prejudice in my first year English course and loved it
@@ThatReadingGuy28 glad to hear it. it's really good :)