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I fell in love with the Holmes stories in 9th grade. We read “The Red-Headed League” & I thought Holmes was brilliant, & read all the Holmes stories. I remember reading the Memoirs and Adventures while we were camping one summer, in our camping trailer in the top bunk, with a small dim light on over my head. I still have that book, and when I close my eyes and riffle through it and smell those old pages I’m back at muggy, buggy Naylor’s Beach campground with my family & Holmes & Watson. I’m 64 years old now, I still collect Sherlock books & memorabilia. People mourned when Doyle killed Holmes off in the Strand. I mourned when Jeremy Brett died.

Sorry, but Jihad is not one of the islam 5 pillars .. they are: 1-shahada (or the words you say to announce your islam) 2- salat (pray) 3- soum (fasting) 4- zakat (money for the poor) 5- haj (pilgrimage to kaaba) .. please don't teach wrong information, not just about islam, but about any subject because people would believe what you say and that is big responsibility.

Sound very very poor.

Henry was a LOT nuts. And it’s still a durn shame he killed his wives, being obsessed with a male heir. Especially since we now know if he didn’t sire sons it was his biology.

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Going to college with a cell phone. Wonder how far that person got. Dr. Moir should not have to be reduced to this. I wonder if they realized how much WORK he had to do to end up educating a bunch of blockheads.

W. W. Jacobs wrote “The Monkey’s Paw”. I like Poe’s adventure story “The Gold Bug”. RUclips has an audio/video of Vincent Price dramatizing this story, it’s great!

2024: A writer and journalist named Mark Dawidziak has written a biography of Poe focusing on Poe’s death. He gets things right. As a Virginian, I give Baltimore a big ol’ raspberry for usurping Poe & his memory! 😉 ☠

In my opinion, having been a mystic for 50 years, the "Romantic" period was disparagingly named by secular scholars who didn't understand it, on the principle of "history is written by the victors." It was a spiritual awakening; and inasmuch as Emerson was a key figure, he was drawing chiefly from his copy of the Bhagavad Gita, which he loaned out to friends.

Baudelaire is not shocking comparing to way you look.

Weird fiction gives up on Christianity. There are two great Christian commandments: love God and love one another. Is that the way to fight the evil after all? When evil takes over, is it because of an absence of love? An absence of Hope? There is hopelessness in WF. Evil is with us and it looks like a never-ending fight. Christ made it sound easy: Get thee behind me Satan. A conscious decision has to be made to keep evil at bay. But this has become a different discussion for another day.

I have read about the pulp mags & August Derleth in particular. It’s interesting you teach a course where a lot of the writing was done because the authors were trying to fill up the next magazine issue, or simply trying to make enough money to eat. :) But it’s definitely a 20th century literary happening. I DO quibble with the dates, I always thought the aftermath of two absolutely hideous world wars had something to do with this genre. If we can be this bad, what must it be like behind the veil? I have read Lovecraft. Scientists are just on the verge of talking about what his work sounds like, plasma physics, & by extension, plasma beings. Freaks you right out when you think about it.

I really enjoyed your video and the deep dive into the Bhagavad Gita. I'm sorry you've received so much hate from people who actually haven't read the text (because if they had, they'd not be so certain that what they believe is the Truth). I think the depth you bring to a 50-minute lecture is truly astounding, because there are so many dilemmas wrapped up in the text, and you've pretty much broad-stroked the history of Hinduism while explaining (like you rightly mentioned) a friggin huge text. If you're still reading the comment section, here's letting you know that not all of us feel the way some of these people have attacked you.

Dr. Moir I hope you have been able to visit the Poe Museum in Richmond.

Poe looked morose & had a hard life, but isn’t it true he was a pretty nice fellow, and wrote what he knew the public wanted, all this creepy weird stuff? He WAS brilliant after all. Think what the world could have had if John Allan had not been such a jerk.

Enjoying all of these. Thanks!

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Today, Emerson etc. would be considered Progressives. Throw over tradition, make it all about “you” at your peril. The Transcendentalists all seem a little wackadoodle to me.

Some historians are calling our republic a failed Enlightenment experiment.

Rip Van Winkle was a great friend to others in his community, except for his nagging wife. He wasn’t great with his own responsibilities.

just raw dog it dont wear a microphone ignore the other guy lol

May I suggest you wear a microphone? Or put the mike closer to you?

I have enjoyed the videos here. I only got through American Lit. at a community college & not a chance of any more college at this point in my life. I like the vids of early English Lit. & world literature. Anyone having you as an instructor is lucky indeed Dr. Moir. Thank you for your channel.

Unfortunately, the sound quality makes this hard to follow.

appreciate this :)

I'm a doctoral student researching "Burmese Days"! I was so impressed that the professor did amazing class about "Burmese Days"! This book hasn't been get attention for a long time. Thank you!

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This idiot is misinterpreting varnashrama explained by the Supreme lord. Krishna clearly mentioned in Geeta 4.13 that 4 varnas or classes are based on qualities (guna) and karma ( actions).

Xeethra has to be one of my favorite tales by Clark Ashton Smith!

small correction. in arabic language it does not say 1001 nights but rather--> 1000 nights and a night or 1000 nights and one night

I've been a listener for about three years, sporadically I like to watch one of your lessons. They brought me great joy, and led me to a new discovery of literature. I'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to have virtually joined your lectures. Luckily I'm not a very dilligent student, so I still have plenty of videos to enjoy.

I think more Hebrew Israelites should study kebra negast , and they should study the Egyptian Coptic church, and whatever it was that happened doing palmy’s error. What they will learn is that her medicine ism is a false religion. Hermetic is good for science. also, what they will learn is Soteriology is a false religion and that it started with pop tell me the first. They will also learn that all baptisms are to Isis and all of those things I just miss Mitch makes up western Christianity Judaism in by Rome to stop the fighting between them and the Maccabee’s.

I cannot forget a madman can write a dairy.Superb ideas.

You TEACH THIS???? Whoa... NO You Don't have any idea of what you are talking about. I Watched your Lovecraft one and was left gobsmacked. Do you think you know more than people that have devoted their lives to the subjet. You host a REALLY fake course and i wish you well in your endeavor to spin your own upon well documented subjects.

Good lecture but these students are so incredibly dumb...

Must be a good professor, based on the quality of his students.

the metamorphosis is real, people turned into dragons and then turned into landscapes, i have some archeological documentation covered. look up mudfossil university too, this is the most important data you can find relating to ovid

You’re a legend

Great lecture. Thank you professor!

Once you start relating a play to Greek tragedy, it is essential to mention hubris. Only a character's realisation of their own hubris (which, in essence is a denial of one's own destiny, the illusion of agency, and therefore a kind of blasphemy against the gods that decide your fate) is what can lead to catharsis.

can you share link '' feminist manifesto poem'' I can only find manifesto in internet :(

Lisbom earthquare - burning of people afterwards - using reason when they should use observation (science instead)

Lol pangloss starting the mess

Really helpful analysis

good teacher

I remember year ago finding these break downs of Weird fic which I wasn't sure if I could divorce it from being some extreme weirdo sadist stuff but with sprinkle of interesting ideas. The delivery of these concepts is masterful. The guy who gave these lectures is actually a legend. Deserves to be in a completely different class in terms of viewership and reception. And I've later fully connected the deep artistic purity which is in the veins some of the work in this genre, and why it is more rich than people acknowledge or even writers express. Which is a small part of why these lectures are so impressive to me.

Going from "this little corner of the world" to the "Great cities of America"? Dude put some respect on Caribbean if you are going to engage with their greatest works.

Advanced Topics in Postcolonialism? But y'all can't google the oldest universities in the Caribbean? Stick to content analysis. Any form of in depth research is absent from this video.

The first university in the Caribbean? Dude, no.