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.
"... 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.
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.
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."
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!
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.
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.
Goodness, what a lot of negative reactions to a brilliant lecture.
"... 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.
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.
+DuanePostum I hope you last sentence is complimentary. Or is it a poke in the rib?
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."
+Prof Sattar Basra It was complimentary if not laudatory. I meant that Ricks helps one appreciate deeper levels of poems, if nothing else.
Thanks, bwana. The penny has dropped. To teach is to learn twice. Docendo discimus !
Pity so little of the lecture focuses on the text itself
Yes, brilliant man who tends to rickety ramble ...
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!
Very interesting but he sounds rather like Stanley Unwin and Tony Benn.
I got the Stanley Unwin similarity too! But Professor Ricks is excellent!
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.
Ricks is a fool.
If you met him in real life you would know he wasn't a posh git.
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.
what the fuck are you on about?