Richard Holmes: Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Bristol and Beyond (Coleridge Lectures 2015)
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- The publication of the Lyrical Ballads in Bristol in 1798 launched the Romantic poetry movement. Richard Holmes looks at the life and work of Coleridge at this critical moment, and explores the varied interpretations of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and its powerful emergence as a modern eco-fable.
The Coleridge Lectures 2015: Radical Green are part of Festival of Ideas, presented by Bristol Ideas: www.bristolideas.co.uk/
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes: uk.bookshop.org/a/11279/97800...
Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes: uk.bookshop.org/a/11279/97800...
In association with Bristol 2015 European Green Capital and the Cabot Institute.
Illuminating talk on a haunting ballad by a poet who was no less haunted by bondage to laudanum and the daimons of fancy and imagination. Prof Holmes' lucidity holds the audience spellbound, without the coercive instrumentality of the glittering eye.
Wonderful. I’ve owned Richard Holmes’ books on STC since they came out and I’m re-reading them now.
An excellent video. The poem brings bring back memories of my school days.
Fabulous! A class for me and further ensconced a spiritual connection to the English Romantics.
Such an interesting lecture. Thanks for posting it.
Wonderful lecture - filled out many aspects of both poem and man for me. A tiny error crept in about Peake - who never saw active service or POW camps in WW2 ( I think that's strayed over from David Jones?). The breakdown Peake was recovering from when Chatto & Windus handed him The Rime occurred during National Service training here in UK. The link here to the Polar spirit and its resonance with the unfolding changes upon us, so powerful - thank you.
For any students here for some quotes on Romanticism: 36:09
THANK YOU . nice of YOU .
bless you I really needed that
excellent done
God bless u prof...
I am so pleased to have found this. Thanks for posting!
Wonderful stuff!! Marvellous! Thank you for posting.
Wonderful, both are beautiful, Coleridge and Richard❤️
I love this man
Went through that whole lecture and no mention of Iron Maiden.... 😆 I adore your presentation, Sir Richard. Thank you for posting this
awesome!
A Lecture to stream ovr and over...and then read Angus Fletcher's Colors of the Mind, Chapter 9. "Threshold, Sequence, and Personification in Coleridge. Also, see Chris Jordan on Vimeo. A long documentary on the Albatross of Midway Island, aclled Albatross. Midway Island is not populated any more, so the birds have no fear ...so the photographer relaxes adn films loog sequences. There is music. And of course, millions of the birds die yearly after having taken up man's plastic rubbish.
The fragments read from Coleridges prose show how the English language,,,even thought itself,,,has fallen away since his time,,,even Victorian prose is opaque and latinate, That critical gauleiter Possum Eliot,,,Ezra called him that cause a possum plays dead,,hated the Romantics,,,not surprising since TSE hated life,,,but they embodied TSEs idea of,,, thought being feeling,,,more than the Metaphysicalsi, Enough,,,,RH is so enthusiastic impish and witty he cant be English he must be Celtic,,,he understands beauty because he married an Australian woman,,,,he has craic with a Bristol audience so attentive and responsive that maybe England can be saved, And yet,,,Coleridge and Blake knew Bentham was the deadly enemy,,, and Bentham is the God of England now,,,with his managerial calculus, How well Coleridge foresaw us,,,,an immigrant hawk with battered plumage being shot at from ship to ship,,,non feeling from non thinking, We must shore up these fragments against our ruin
If anyone is interested , look up the song “ Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” by Iron Maiden. It is quite amazing in its ability to tell the story with music that helps propel the story. Watch the video that has the songs lyrics.
You don’t have to like Iron Maiden to enjoy it. If anything, you might become a fan.
So Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner must become a global warming poem ... Indeed, 99% of ‘scholarship’ from the past thirty+ years is worse than useless.
You get your 'scholarship' from youtube and you're an expert?