Thanks for making this video. At my University, "The Canterbury Tales" were neglected in my english department. So,I bought the Harold Bloom poetry anthology and learned about the great poets on my free time. You will be surprised on how much the great poets are ignored in english departments in the twenty first century higher education.
Interesting, as a guy in Perú I haven't really heard all that much of Chaucer, but I think a lot of literatures have some kind of parallel, I swear to God I knew of his spanish equivalent... Well, whatever, really looking forward to your Hamlet vid :) I've never read anything by Shakespeare and thta should definetly change soon, see ya and as always thx for the content
Thanks! I am very excited about the HAMLET video. Shakespeare is the master of the sublime. His work is a miracle of literature, nearly every line a hearty meal!
I found the Hollanders translation stunning, and the notes are extremely thorough and enlightening. I'm not sure that Dante placed Odysseus in hell solely because he was a pagan, though. That might be why Virgil is there, in Limbo, but not Odysseus; his lies and foolhardy disregard for the lives of the men in his command had more to do with that placement.
Interesting video, I find the last section with the discussion of seven deadly sins to be the most interesting. Great review, plan on doing a review of this myself.
if you enjoyed The Canterbury Tales, you might enjoy Gower's Confessio Amantis, which also inspired Shakespeare :) it's a beast of a poem, though, as long as Chaucer's meant to be, if not longer. Personally, I'm a big fan of John Lydgate's middle english poetry, but then I really enjoy Middle English haha
Awesome video! I read a little of chaucer in high school with my English teacher. In italian literature we have something similar "the Canterbury tales" by chaucer: Boccaccio's decamerone that i hated with all my heart. I m looking forward for your next "western video" about hamlet that I'm rereading in these days along with othello. I'd very glad to say that i've at pag 200 of moby dick. Maybe this is the right time to finish it! See you soon!
It is curious that Chaucer never cites Boccaccio as an influence though we know he was. Chaucer even spent some time in Italy and there’s no way he didn’t hear of it. But this is sometimes what authors do to carve out their own space as I will outline in an upcoming video on Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence. Great job on Moby-Dick-my favorite American novel!
@@liquidpebbles7475 There is a definite link between Boccaccio's tales and Cervantes's interpolated stories in the Quixote, so maybe that was your connection.
Aristotle, and the "unmoved mover" leads to Aquinas. What were Aquinas’ “Five Ways” to prove the existence of God? -Motion: There is a first mover. -Causation: An ordered series of efficient causation terminates in an uncaused cause. -Possibility and Necessity: There must be some necessary being with its necessity not from something else. -Gradation: There is something maximally good, something maximally true, and something maximally noble. Something is maximally being. We call that thing which is the cause of the being, goodness, and perfection of all other things “God”. -Governance: We call that director of unthinking things “God”.
Thanks for making this video. At my University, "The Canterbury Tales" were neglected in my english department. So,I bought the Harold Bloom poetry anthology and learned about the great poets on my free time. You will be surprised on how much the great poets are ignored in english departments in the twenty first century higher education.
Interesting, as a guy in Perú I haven't really heard all that much of Chaucer, but I think a lot of literatures have some kind of parallel, I swear to God I knew of his spanish equivalent... Well, whatever, really looking forward to your Hamlet vid :) I've never read anything by Shakespeare and thta should definetly change soon, see ya and as always thx for the content
Thanks! I am very excited about the HAMLET video. Shakespeare is the master of the sublime. His work is a miracle of literature, nearly every line a hearty meal!
I found the Hollanders translation stunning, and the notes are extremely thorough and enlightening.
I'm not sure that Dante placed Odysseus in hell solely because he was a pagan, though. That might be why Virgil is there, in Limbo, but not Odysseus; his lies and foolhardy disregard for the lives of the men in his command had more to do with that placement.
Ah, thanks for the recommendation and the helpful input there!
Interesting video, I find the last section with the discussion of seven deadly sins to be the most interesting. Great review, plan on doing a review of this myself.
Thanks! Let me know when your review is posted.
if you enjoyed The Canterbury Tales, you might enjoy Gower's Confessio Amantis, which also inspired Shakespeare :) it's a beast of a poem, though, as long as Chaucer's meant to be, if not longer. Personally, I'm a big fan of John Lydgate's middle english poetry, but then I really enjoy Middle English haha
Ahhh, how I love recommendations I haven't heard of!
Third best look (it’s similar to the first best look)
Lol
Awesome video! I read a little of chaucer in high school with my English teacher. In italian literature we have something similar "the Canterbury tales" by chaucer: Boccaccio's decamerone that i hated with all my heart. I m looking forward for your next "western video" about hamlet that I'm rereading in these days along with othello. I'd very glad to say that i've at pag 200 of moby dick. Maybe this is the right time to finish it! See you soon!
It is curious that Chaucer never cites Boccaccio as an influence though we know he was. Chaucer even spent some time in Italy and there’s no way he didn’t hear of it. But this is sometimes what authors do to carve out their own space as I will outline in an upcoming video on Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence. Great job on Moby-Dick-my favorite American novel!
OMG I feel so dumb now lol, always thught the Decamerón was part of the spanish literary canon, I was just about to comment about it lmao
@@liquidpebbles7475 , don't worry! Mistakes happen! :-)
@@liquidpebbles7475 There is a definite link between Boccaccio's tales and Cervantes's interpolated stories in the Quixote, so maybe that was your connection.
Aristotle, and the "unmoved mover" leads to Aquinas. What were Aquinas’ “Five Ways” to prove the existence of God?
-Motion:
There is a first mover.
-Causation:
An ordered series of efficient causation terminates in an uncaused cause.
-Possibility and Necessity:
There must be some necessary being with its necessity not from something else.
-Gradation:
There is something maximally good, something maximally true, and something maximally noble.
Something is maximally being.
We call that thing which is the cause of the being, goodness, and perfection of all other things “God”.
-Governance:
We call that director of unthinking things “God”.