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A book lover's dream! I dearly dream of visiting Edinburgh one day!

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Thank you for a very useful and interesting video. I can see why you favour the Oxford Schools edition. But maybe when you’re more familiar with the plays, the Oxford or Arden will prove useful for further study. As far as the Oxford Shakespeare edition is concerned, many of the original hardbacks (which I bought as they came out) can now be had for under £20, some under £10. The main point is that these are printed on a cream or off-white paper and will lie flat. They have purple dust jackets. However, be sure to prefer the original printings (1980s to early 2000s), as the later print-on-demand versions are basically the paperback text block in hard laminated boards and you’ll be no better off.

This series of videos is super interesting!

Fascinating!

Good work with studies so far! The Middle English sounds good. Keep reading!

I just found your channel today and really enjoyed all the contents. I wish you all the best in your new adventure and look forward to hearing your insights and thoughts on literatures and books down the road! :D

You did it!! Way to go!! 🎉

I have a book called No Fear Canterbury Tales that has the original on the left page and a line by line translation on the right page.

I enjoyed this. It’s been decades since I read _T&C._ You did a great job!

Does Penguin include middle and modern English in that volume you hold up or did you have a separate book for modern English? Love your library.

Im still trying to read Canterbury Takes in Middle English. That is quite a demanding module, to have u read it all in Middle English. It will be a rewarding feeling at the end of it.

I'm so glad bookshops like this still exist.

Your hat is wonderful and I'm trying to find one. What do they call it in stores? Who sells them? Is yours wool? Sorry for these silly questions but I'm having a hard time finding one.

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Chrestien de Troyes is one I've been interested in picking up but I've never heard anyone else talk about them!

I loved to hear your thoughts. Good luck with the Chaucer!

I see you picked ‘Planet Narnia’ off the shelf. I really recommend it if you’re interested in C. S. Lewis. It explains his private and undisclosed thinking behind the Narnia books. They weren’t just Christian allegories but each of the seven novels is further and secretly informed by the medieval astrological attributes of each of the five known planets plus sun and moon. So, for example, ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, is infused with the attributes of Jupiter/Jove, chiefly jollity. This is the real key to the stories and shows how Lewis was able to add a discrete layer of meaning, involving aspects of that medieval literature and lore which he had studied and loved so much, into his iconic stories for children. (I have no connection with author or publisher, just a love of books!)

As always you have taught me things I didn’t know. You have answered questions I’ve had. I’m so happy for you getting to attend these seminars but also happy for me that you share what you’ve learned.

Sounds like you are reading the big names! The two French writers, I 'm ashamed to admit, have always been names to me. This is my negligence. French Lit didn't start for me until Montaigne. But I liked what you said about them so why not? In college I read Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales, both in modern English. Middle English sounds like poetry read aloud by a Norwegian with a sinus infection. But they were a good read. How is the creative non fiction module going?

I feel like I'm getting a potted version of your degree and it's great!

Sounds like a great seminar. Very interesting about the role of romance as language. The stories sound cool. Fascinating to hear the origin of romantic love in lit! I hope Chaucer is good.

When I was going to college (university), I was disappointed the way that we rushed through the modules/subjects. I want to stay and talk and really get a complete understanding no matter what I was studying. I was fortunate to have a professor who helped me understand how to write. I was in my 50's and had no idea what a thesis was or how to find the topic of the thesis. I was extremely scattered until I found her and although I am not an awesome writer - I am much better than I used to be. Your journey is inspiring!

Your videos are great! I’m learning so much from listening to you.

Thank you for sharing your uni experiences with us! I'm enjoying these vlogs a lot.

Thank you for sharing.

Thank you for another lovely video, it is always nice to watch.

Thank you. Please keep posting

My daughter read french literature at university. These books were part ofvher reading list in the first year😊

After watching almost all your videos, I think it's time to thank you for the great content for literature as a former graduate studying English Literature. They are quite helpful when it comes to selecting different editions and learning more information. And just you know, as a Chinese student, your accent is so lovely and familiar. Wish you all the best! 十分感谢！万事如意~

From memory, I enjoyed the Odyssey more than the Aeneid, but who would want to follow Odysseus? He gets everyone killed! I do think the contrasts between the works are so fascinating. If Homer was drawing on existing oral histories and legends and putting them together into a narrative structure, in a sense he was more restricted. If the myth everyone knows has Odysseus being awful, he can't change it that far. But the Aeneid as you say was political propaganda, staking Rome's connection to the heroes of old. Virgil had pretty much carte blanche to make Aeneas as brilliant as he could and a role model for a leader for the ages. He reminds me of later leader chatacters, even Aragorn for instance or Henry V (not as Prince Hal of course). Virgil could also create his own story, but it had to be reminiscent of the earlier works so you can see why the plagiarism occurred! So that made it more readable than the Iliad.

It's important to remember that Odysseus and Aeneas represent two different cultures, ancient Greek and Imperial Rome. Whoever Homer was (one man, a group?) the story he tells is of an adventurer. The point, I think, is all the events Odysseus has on the way home. Reaching Ithaca is just the conclusion, just one more incident. Aeneas' purpose is to establish Rome. All the incidents involving Aeneas are just side line stuff, not the main story. Keep in mind The Aeniad was a deliberate effort to give the new Roman Empire a founding mythos. In a way, Aeneas is Roman's King Arthur. Odysseus is much more fun to read. I want Aeneas running my country if I need to choose between the two

Hi! Just found your channel, and I'm really enjoying your videos! For me, I'm Team Troy all the way, and I much prefer The Aeneid to The Odyssey. It's interesting to see what the Greeks and the Romans valued in a hero respectively by comparing Odysseus and Aeneas - honour vs duty, great feats and unbridled emotion vs virtue and self-control. Considering how much about the two cultures was similar, they really were vastly different peoples.

This was so interesting! One day I'll read these two! I'm going to go for the Emily Wilson translation I think

I agree with you: Aeneas is a better reader, but Odysseus is more interesting.

Virgil’s Aeneas is the clear winner if you're looking for adventure story. We are blessed to have these 3 classics.

I owe both of those books a reread. The _Odyssey_ was a high school read for me, yet it seems to have impressed me more than Virgil’s poem, which I remember less and less fondly.

Definitely Aeneas. By the time I finished the Odyssey, I was rolling my eyes. He was not the Odysseus of the Iliad, he felt like a petulant, bratty teenager.

Absolutely loved listening to you. Thank you so much for posting your thoughts. I've only read Homer and that was many many years ago. You certainly sparked an interest in a reread. I would probably choose Homer's Odysseus, I mean my name is Penelope. Thanks again.

Congratulations on getting an unconditional offer! That's amazing! It's definitely sad that the female translated versions aren't "acceptable" but I suppose they might be quite different from the male translations

Shakespeare in Bloomsbury and the Emma Smith one! Plus the one by Judi Dench haha

Good luck on your studies ,you will do very well always looking forward to your channel as an avid reader I still follow college classes on line in literature and history.. good luck.

I loved the Empty Space when I read it. Really inspiring, it made me want to do more theatre. (But as yet I haven’t had the chance!)

This is super interesting. I don’t like the expression"creative nonfiction", because I hear some contempt in it. I hear "nonfiction would be much better if it was more like fiction". And I disagree. I read In the Dream House a few years ago. I could see the author has talent, but I didn’t like the book much. I felt I was given to read a writing exercise, and not a finished product. I wanted to say to the author: I am your reader, not your teacher. The module on narrative transformation also sounds very interesting. It’s too bad Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey is not an acceptable one. Perhaps it is too new and in a few years it will make the cut. I’ve read a little bit of Chretien de Troyes. I read his Lancelot and the Knight of the Cart not long after having read Don Quixote, and suddenly Don Quoxote made even more sense and was even funnier.