Robert Louis Stevenson: Living Life Through Imagination
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Simon.tell me.when will you do a video about queen mary of romania?tell me,pls. When?
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut copy, and paste commands dies at 74
will we ever have a biographics about Simon Whistler?
Kierkegaard :(
Biographic Could you do Wilbeforce next
I'm probably in a minority of viewers, but I particularly enjoy the bios on authors: you've done some of my favorites; Poe, Lovecraft, Orwell, Asimov, and now Robert Louis Stevenson. Thanks so much for these!
No your not in a minority, I enjoy them as well.
Me also.
I always enjoy them to and they always make me think that i realy should read their books at some point.
Far from, I'd say.
Rich inner lives, make for intriguing life tales.
The biography of an author is the biography of all his/her characters. Bairgain!!
*"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."*
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut copy, and paste commands dies at 74
@Arna Cook Will you copy+paste it in? Would be somewhat inappropriate to type it yourself..;-)
I see this quote attributed to Jack London also ... who said it? HELP!
I love that he finished his life in Samoa and fell in love with the people and the country. The fact he stood up for native Samoans in his critique of the colonial powers in "A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa" is testament to his character as a humanist.
Though everyone knows the basic premise of Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde, few have actually read it. I did. It's bloody brilliant.
Agreed. It seems about a hundred years ahead of its time, both in style and substance (apart from the Victorian diction, of course).
@Neal Palmer It is scary - but Alan Horowitz was using the word 'bloody' in its British-slang sense - meaning "extremely"; i.e., "It's extremely brilliant".
SAME, we did it for GCSE (uk) and i still read it for fun now. I wish i could read it for the first time again it was such a mystery i loved it
I read the book many years ago and absolutely hated it. One of the toughest reads I ever undertook.
RLS is a favorite of mine but personally I don't like that one. Glad someone does
I had heard of the writer before, but up until I visited his house in Samoa, I had never actually read any of his books. Bought a few when there and walked up to his grave to read on beautiful days. Thanks for the memories. Robert Louis. Thanks for the video, Simon.
RLS is fondly remembered in Hawaii as being a dear friend of the Cleghorns, who were part of the Hawaii royal family (the patriarch of the clan in Hawaii, Archibald Cleghorn, was also of Scottish descent). He spent quite a bit of time with Hawaii’s last crown princess, Victoria Ka’iulani, and one of his poems about her passing became the lyrics of a song many youth in Hawaii still learn and sing today.
Forth from her land to mine she goes
The island maid, the island rose
Light of heart and bright of face
The daughter of a double race
Her islands here, in southern sun
Shall mourn their Ka’iulani gone. 💔
👌
It is remarkable how many of our greatest writers/artists all had a childhood where they were confined due to illness.
"A Child's Garden of Verses" was a childhood gift that I've always treasured. I'm surprised it's rarely mentioned in such biographies.
Treasure Island was my introduction to "grown up books" and it's still my favorite book ❤️
I wish these videos could be put on a playlist, in historical order. 😍
One of my favourite writers, but you don’t see a lot about him in literary circles online. Thank you for this!
I was never a "fiction" person really, not even as a kid. Couldn't be arsed with "fantasy" much, yawn Zzzzzz LOL But being assigned to read Treasure Island for school made such an impact on me that I would find myself drawing maps on paper trying to imagine what the rest of the fictional world looked like. Which is a testament for how good of a writer the guy really was, I think.
LOL
I loved his Poems too.... I remember i had to memorize one of his poems in 5 grade in order to participate in Elocution... Good ol days. Made me fall in love with poetry.
On the *Monterey Peninsula is a super expensive private high school named for RLS. How expensive?......their home golf course for the golf team is Pebble Beach. Yeah, THAT Pebble Beach.
*Monterey California has one "r", Monterrey Mexico has two. Spaniards named both thusly.
Expensive is an understatement. I grew up in Monterey. You’re definitely in the ballpark.
I got to visit 17 Heriot Row when I visited Edinburgh two years ago and had tea with the current owners. It was amazing. I learned so much about Robert Louis Stevenson there and found in him a kindred spirit. Without realizing it, I found that I somehow traced his life backwards through geography. My earliest memories are of Monterey, California where I lived with I was 4 and 5. When I was 17 I went to Hawai'i, my first vacation. Stevenson had spent some time there before moving on to Samoa (in fact, the picture used in this video is of his time in Hawai'i. He's sitting beside Queen Lili'uokalani, the last ruler of Hawai'i, and beside her is her brother and predecessor, King Kalakaua). Then, of course, when I was 30 I took myself to Scotland, my first time doing anything by myself, my dream trip. I found RLS everywhere starting with his memorial stone in the Princes Street Gardens. Going to his house was one of the definite highlights of my trip. I spent hours there and could have spent days. Besides all I've said, I've wanted to be an author since I was 7 and have been obsessed with pirates since not long after that, so naturally, I'm a fan.
nice what was the place called?I'd like to visit
@@kool.kl1pz It was his house on Heriot Row in Edinburgh. There's a plaque outside. I got the experience of going inside through AirB&B.
Thanks for sharing, Amanda.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for bringing one of my favorite authors to light for me.
In "An Apology for Idlers" (1877) Stevenson demonstrates to have an immense maturity and high emotional intelligence in order to make a critique of the environment around him at such early age. His words are poignant, aggressive (as is should be) and still relevant to this day. Please have in mind he wrote that BEFORE his later fiction successes, and he also wrote it BEFORE engaging in real-life adventures travelling in France and crossing USA.
Keep up the videos man, your page is important for thousands of people to continue learning!!
Please do Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa , Robert Emmett, Constance Markievicz, Victor Hugo, Benjamin Tallmidge, John Graves Simcoe, John André, Stan Lee, Arthur Sullivan, Buddy Holly, Michael Farraday, Marita Lorenz
Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination, living there you’ll be free!
Love Willie Wonka (the Gene Wilder version)
Simon, I love all your channels but Biographics is my #1 favorite.
As always, another great video. Thanks so much for your service.
wonderful episode Simon! thanks. ive always loved Stevensons work and this gave me a small window into his astounding life.
This was absolutely fascinating, I have never heard any of the details of his life before, what a story!
Thank you Simon, well articulated and sensitive as always.
As always great topic. These videos serves as pause and relief from my medical studies each week
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I gotta hand it to him. If I had health like that, I probably would've put myself down. I guess a love of doing something is the key.
“I travel not to anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move”
Robert Louis Stevenson
That sounds like me!
Thank you so much ! Very interesting and well explained .
Home is the sailor, home from the sea, and the hunter home from the hill. Poetic genius.
Very nice video, I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing with us
Love the videos and how you present them! (As a small request I'd love to see you do a piece on the Marquis De Sade someday!)
Mad respect for anyone who makes a law degree as the backup plan.
RLS stayed quite awhile in Monterey Ca. (One R in Monterey) he was Unwell and my GGGrandmother Simineau cared for him since they had a restaurant in Monterey. They became good friends. Good video. Thanks.
I love author bios! I want to read his books now thank you
Kidnapped is my favourite book of all time, from reading at school in the 1960s and still readying it regularly today.
When I was in grade school, we have to learn a number of his poems from his book called A Child's Garden of verses. Some I remember to this day. Also, I read that he was a master at a certain instrument and wrote hundreds of pieces for it. So I recommend the short story "The Bottle Imp" and a movie called "The Wrong Box" that was based on one of his joke novels.
THANK YOU MAN.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
The architect of a large chunk of my childhood. Good form, Simon. Good form.
Only recently stumbled across this channel and I'm absolutely hooked ❤️ think you could do a vid on Dumas?? keep up the great work!!
I really enjoyed this video more then most
I love all your videos! So well done. Could you do one on J.R.R Tokein or Thomas Hardy?
Could you make a video on the life of Franz Liszt? I think he was a creative artist who lived a crazy life, worthy of a biography.
Wow, I've read his books but never knew much about him. Very interesting man that Mr Stevenson.
Very interesting. Thank you very much ❤.
great and thanks so much boss
3:58
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Finally one of my favorite authors
My english prof asked us to send her a video of Stevenson to study. The others sent her 2 minutes videos. I sent her this. I have to learn everything perfectly (with a british accent too, I'm italian) for the 5th of april (it's the 31st of march). Wish me luck
Thank you . Now I know more about the man. My elementary school was his namesake.
Stevenson part of the great Scottish Renaissance, where nearly every heavyweight intellectual in 19th century England was of Scottish descent. Not bad for a people who just a century before were viewed as inferior.
That's it. They were viewed that view by racist colonisers, but they never were inferior
@@user-fc7dh8yz9d Maybe they were from English POV, the same way Japanese were viewed as inferior prior to the Meiji Restoration.
Hey Biographics! Could you do a video about Edward Berneys? The mind behind advertisement
I'm watching all the novelist episodes. As an inspiring novelist, on the brink of something good. These writers lives. I find somethings similar to my life thus far and the similar struggles they had. I feel as though I have more friends with like minds than before thanks everybody at Biographics
The videogames industry is DESPERATELY in need of good writers. I don't know how much "books" still work in this day and age. For me personally, I can't read anything, I can't simply be arsed with being sitting focusing on one single task (phisically impossible) But when I think about a good vehicle that makes use of stories, I see videogames, one of the last "frontiers" of self expression still available
Even though care has to be put on the delivery. No videogame player would be arsed to sit through paragraphs of text, that kind of stuff is of no use and would cause the opposite effect you wanted. Plot elements and story being told as you move around the game, and not in still text boxes. Daggerfall/Skyrim is on the verge of excess (even though they make the excessive portion completely Optional to the player, and not required for progress) DeusEx/Thief series would be good examples of good flow. Metal Gear Solid series too, to some extent.
Excellent. Thanks for the video. Ever consider one on Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson?
I always like the information you give in these channels. I was hoping you can feature the caucasian samurai, William Adams, in a video.
Awesome! I just read Treasure Island recently...definitely recommend it!
Thank you
I grew up near the beach that looks out on what is now Point Lobos National park, which (according to local legend) is the spot where RLS was inspired to write "Treasure Island".
I love your channel! Could you please cover the life and creative genius of Sir Terry Prattchett !???
I enjoy your biographies of authors. Have you considered doing one on Vladimir Nabokov? Pretty fascinating life!
My favourite writer❤
Robert Peel (1788-1850) the founder of the first new Metropolitan Police Force Service at Scotland Yard in 1829.
Stevenson's 'SPY GLASS HILL' (Treasure Island) is likely named after 'Sugarloaf Hill' located on the Peter Michael Vineyard/Estate in Knight's Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA. Stevenson's Best Man at his San Francisco wedding (1880) was Virgil Williams, who recommended to the newly married Stevensons their 'Honeymoon' camping location located on the slopes of Mt Saint Helena (MSH), north of Calistoga, CA. From this period, arose Stevenson's book: 'The Silverado Squatters'. Williams lived in Knight's Valley partly during the year on the upper slopes (of MSH) above Knight's Valley and Stevenson was said to have called on Williams at his cabin there - but first having to ride within sight of Sugarloaf Hill.
Kidnapped was the first book I read.
Simon: and you will see how he was able to tell such epic stories
Me: ooh he probably had tons of real life adventures
Simon: he was sick
Love all these videos. What lapel mic do you use? What camera? Thank you for you time and consideration!
Simon please make episodes on the space pioneers, Gagarin,Von Braun, Korolev
Do one on the renaissance painter Matthias grunewald.
If you're ever in Edinburgh there's a small museum dedicated to him.
I live in Edinburgh in the village of Colinton so you might know the thing about that..... He wrote his books in the church yard of Colinton parish church with his dog And..... I LIVE IN THAT VILLAGE 👌👌👌👌👌
Reading DR. Jekyll and MR. Hyde for Gothic Lit. class right now!
Don't mind me. I'm just here for my daily dose of biographics.
Very interesting. I hadn't realised RLS had died at a relatively young age,and in a different country.
Enjoyed this very much. Would you consider a Bio on Robert W. Service?
Fantastic
Have they done a video about H.G Wells yet?
Wow, Samoa. Thank you for the biography, I had no idea he went to that island or that he was so sickly for so much of his life.
Welcome to my world
"Her name was Alison Cunnngham, but everyone just called her Cummy."
Ill just leave this here.
Nah not cummy. He said cunni. Like in cunnilingus.
@@Spartan265 3:58 listen again
@@Spartan265 4:57 again lmao
Alright, settle down people, nothing to see here, it was just one of the narrators poorly veiled standard political slurs - calling poor, dead and defenseless mrs Cunningham "commie" ...
Why never any bios of composers?
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Can you do a video about Jack London? His life was so interesting!
We have a State park near Napa named In his honor and now it’s clear why!
Sounds like "myself" is left brain and "the other fellow" is right brain. Left brain is logic and ego, right brain is emotion and creativity.
Would you do a video on Col Claus von Stauffenberg? I have read so much about him and his attempt to kill Hitler, so I'd really love to see you film a video about him ☺️
1:30 - Chapter 1 - An ill child lives through imagination
6:25 - Chapter 2 - Life as writer ? Better have a backup plan
8:55 - Mid roll ads
10:25 - Chapter 3 - Loves comes when you least expect it
14:15 - Chapter 4 - Was is a death sentence...or did it make life worth living ?
16:40 - Chapter 5 - Samoa's setting sun
Can you make an biographies on Leonhard Euler
A great man
I’m from Nigeria and I’ve read treasure island in high school
Simon,I don't watch every video, yet you hit many home runs! What's that in cricket speak? ;-)
I think it's called sixes.
A boundary
I quite liked kidnapped and I wish I could read treasure island,the ending scene between Alan and David was very sad and emotional ngl
Do a video on basil the second
I didn't enjoy Treasure Island when I first read it. It's about time for a rereading
sorry, cant watch at min, but i hope you mention his brith pace, a cottage on Great Lime Road on the outskirts of Newcastle upon Tyne
a fascination bio.
It's funny, I don't recall a previous Biographics where they mention that the featured person was just like.... a charming & delightful chap. 🌻
Arguably my biggest inspiration along with Italo Calvino and Tolkien. He had the clearest and most whimsical writing style of them all.
How about a video about Dennis Rader or Upton Sinclair?
Please do Ambrose Bierce. Very interesting man
Your health is your wealth.☘