I listened to many lectures like this when I was at university many years ago. It was like water off a duck's back. I recommend taking the time to memorize countless pieces of poetry and prose because that is something you can take with you in life.
@janesherman5637
8 ай бұрын
Goodness, what a lot of negative reactions to a brilliant lecture.
@DuanePostum
10 жыл бұрын
"... you take the responsibility for the response you have..." 8:38. Such a Ricksian way of putting it. Listening closely to this man is like cranking up the volume on the stereo amplifier of literary beauty.
@JeffRebornNow
9 жыл бұрын
DuanePostum There's a "Ricksian" way of putting things? Like a Dickensian way? Or a Shakespearean way? Ooooooooo that Ricksian rag, it's so elegant, so intelligent.
@sattarabus
8 жыл бұрын
+DuanePostum I hope you last sentence is complimentary. Or is it a poke in the rib?
@JeffRebornNow
8 жыл бұрын
Prof Sattar Basra I hope you aren't an English teacher who publishes journal articles as badly written as, "+DuanePostum I hope you last sentence is complimentary."
@DuanePostum
8 жыл бұрын
+Prof Sattar Basra It was complimentary if not laudatory. I meant that Ricks helps one appreciate deeper levels of poems, if nothing else.
@sattarabus
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks, bwana. The penny has dropped. To teach is to learn twice. Docendo discimus !
@tomaszbethell
2 ай бұрын
Pity so little of the lecture focuses on the text itself
@ftlpope
5 жыл бұрын
Very interesting but he sounds rather like Stanley Unwin and Tony Benn.
@davidgardiner6123
5 жыл бұрын
I got the Stanley Unwin similarity too! But Professor Ricks is excellent!
@ftlpope
5 жыл бұрын
I read the books he refers to. I think that the Carthaginian line is very weak. I do not think that Eliot, in his four piece suit, was ever in touch with the mundane world.
@reaganwiles_art
4 жыл бұрын
T.S. Eliot is among the difficult artists, the self-contradictory, his works seem to have been written despite all that he held most dear. In a way Eliot is like Dostoyevsky, in that the works are in contradistinction to what the man valued; rather, the characters and personae repudiate the artist himself. The challenge is to believe that these works of art do not actually represent the deepest character of the men who created them. There is in everything Eliot wrote the knell of doom; we won't be fooled by any "knot of fire" and "rose" at the end of "Little Gidding!" Nor by any rationalization about Aristophanes re: Sweeney Agonistes!
@brandgardner211
7 жыл бұрын
Ricks is a fool.
@georgericks1443
7 жыл бұрын
If you met him in real life you would know he wasn't a posh git.
@seltonk5136
6 жыл бұрын
Brand “The Buffoon” Gardner. Does your car still smell like farts? We recently had laughs at your expense over that. Cruel, but now I don’t feel bad.
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