Where to Start with Lord Byron
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- Today we’re talking about where to start with Lord Byron! He’s my personal favorite Romantic poet.
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Works mentioned:
She Walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted
Don Juan
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
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One of my favourite poems by byron is inscription on the monument of a newfoundland dog. It really got to me!
Impressed by your knowledge!!
These are really good little introductions Jennifer. I think Don Juan is one of the most fun great poems in the English language. He's a classic example of someone whose reputation has led everyone to forget how funny he can be. And yes, problematic fav is probably an ideal description. Also I'd pick 'So We'll Go No More a Roving' as one of his short poems as an introduction. I look forward to the Keats one. Manfred was great. I thought it was more interesting that Goethe's Faust. It's not exactly Faustian but it is adjacent. But I still wonder whether I need a better translation of that Faust.
I’m reading Don Juan right now and I feel so involved! I can feel the witty, funny and charismatic charm that Byron must have had that made him such a larger than life kind of guy! It had me laughing and gasping at appropriate moments. Such a good read, I will continue reading it for sure.
I love your videos about the classics and watch them over and over.
thank you!!
I found your channel recently and i adore your content. I bought the same Oxford edition of Byron’s work because of this video and I’ve found a new obsession. I’d never read poetry and now I can’t stop. Thank you for making poetry accessible!
Same! Cannot stop either, so enraptured with Don Juan right now
Besides a couple short poems from many years ago, Childe Harold's Piligrimage was the first long work I've read by him and I absolutely loved it! It was not an easy read for me because the language was difficult and I had to use the dictionary a lot, but it was incredible!! I'll happily reread it. I have the exact same Oxford edition that you show in this video, and I found the notes very helpful and interesting.
My yearly project for 2023 is to read this exact edition of Byron's works. Until now, I've read Manfred and Cain, which I both really enjoyed, and some of his lyrical poetry. I am currently reading Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. I also cannot wait to dive into Percy Shelley's poetry, after your video on him and after writing my thesis on Frankenstein, and reading so.much. about their lives. Great videos, looking forward to one on Keats!😊
Hello, how are you? Great review and great work! If I may, I would like to make a recommendation. My wife is a translator and recently translated a renowned book of Brazilian classic gothic literature called "Night at the Tavern" by Álvares de Azevedo (one of Brazil's great artists, who never saw his work published as he died very young, at the age of 20). If you would like to read it, it is available on Kindle Unlimited and has strong influences from Lord Byron.
Thank you and success with your channel!
Okay, I always wondered why you pronounced Don Juan that way?! 🤣🤣 I knew there had to be a reason!
MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW! In reading regency poetry, I have begun to realize I need more armor. I need more knowledge of poetry itself. I was reading and looking up every name and word I didn't know. Lots of Greek names and places are in poetry. Meter and style are some other things I would love to know about. What form of poem is a specific poem for I cannot get the meter. If poems rhyme it makes a lot more sense. The women absolutely went gaga for Lord Byron. Caroline Lamb was unhinged. I watched part of the Byron series on Amazon. His life was so distasteful with his love affair with his sister to his homosexual encounters. But I do believe his poetry and his body of work outweighs his life. It is bigger than how he chose to live. I never finished watching that series. But the main idea I got about Byron was this is me; I live how I choose regardless of your judgements. I love whom I choose to love and gain my pleasure where I find it. I do not live for your approbation. He certainly was dangerous for Caroline. But she was already three clicks short of sanity.
I know this comment is a year later. I have the same feeling. I would get along with Lord Byron and could definitely party with him. Although, I think I would have a better friendship with Keats or Shelley.
I'm so enjoying your videos~Thank you for posting!!
Thank you!
Sigh, we all have problematic favs.
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I have a very curious book I haven't read yet by John Crowley called Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land. It's about discovering a discovered lost Byron novel.
that sounds interesting!
He used Coleridge's own lines to mock him along with riches.... Haidee x Juan scenes are ❤ ...But I gotta say the Cannibalism (poor pedrilo) , eating dog ...😮😮😮😮😮
I think Byron was the prototype of the maverick hell raising rockstars/ film stars of the 20th century. A lot of must have been a purposeful act to sell that bad boy image.
Lady Caroline Lamb, on Lord Byron, "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know."
Lord Byron was a good poet but really bad person
Most people are really bad people, but most people are not so talented.
@@js.3490 you shouldn't be talented to be good. it is not like a good singer chosen to have a pretty voice he just had it without his own design or someone with pretty green eyes it doesn't mean he created them. but your morales are your choice.
@@starcapture3040 My point was most people are very bad people, regardless of how talented they are. Lord Byron may have been a terrible person but most people who ever lived are not as talented as him.
@@js.3490 there are millions of people far more talented than him but they are yet to find themselves let alone the environment they are surrounded would let them. people are not bad they chosen to be bad, they have free will to be the most kind and good but they didn't. Lord Byron saw in his talent a place to hide the bad person he was. it's a nice tactic still to this day being taught as makeshift.
@@serafaus Thank you. Exactly right.
Hello, how are you? Great review and great work! If I may, I would like to make a recommendation. My wife is a translator and recently translated a renowned book of Brazilian classic gothic literature called "Night at the Tavern" by Álvares de Azevedo (one of Brazil's great artists, who never saw his work published as he died very young, at the age of 20). If you would like to read it, it is available on Kindle Unlimited and has strong influences from Lord Byron.
Thank you and success with your channel!