A million likes couldn’t do you the justice for uploading these for everyone to see. Your lecture on Eliot will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you
I don't have a knack for poetry, I'm learning, but I like her use of the word 'effacement' in a poem about a new baby and mother; it feels so apt. Effacement is what the cervix does during birth. Most people know of dilation, I think less know about effacement. It felt like an Easter egg kind of, like a hidden surprise.
One other thing. I had a marriage similar to Plath and Hughes. I do not believe she would be happy with her married name being taken off in any manner from her tombstone or elsewhere. She died so soon after their separation that I'd call it 'incomplete;' primary seperations rarely take. I was adopted. I understand feeling a lack of identity, and her married name was a piece of identity puzzle. Whether one's intentions in taking 'Hughes' off were good or not, it was actually selfish and short-sighted.
Any updated thoughts on Plath or Hughes in light of Plath's letters and journal entries alleging that Hughes was quite abusive and possibly responsible for her miscarriage? I know personally it has sullied Hughes and The Birthday Letters in particular for me quite a bit...
@@NickMount Sir I am a student of English Literature from Pakistan. I was introduced to you here on RUclips. I watched your lecture on 'Waiting for Godot'. You have tremendous value to offer students of Literature across the world. Can you please record and upload your lectures regularly and frequently like Dr Jordan Peterson. First it will be priceless for students of Literature all over the world. You make people fall in love with English Literature. My younger brother just finished high school, he was going for an undergraduate management science degree, after showing him your lecture on 'Waiting for Godot' he has now changed his mind and has applied for BS English program here at National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan! Second, with regular uploads your RUclips channel can skyrocket in popularity which can then easily be monetized and would bring in good passive income for you. I will assist you managing/maintaining it. Please consider. Thank you so much!
@@syedaizazbokhari Many thanks, Syed. I really just use this channel to share recordings of my lectures made by others, in this case TVO (TV Ontario). These lectures take many months--years, really--to write so I don't have an endless supply of them. I'm not Jordan Peterson, nor was meant to be. :)
100%. The book Red Comet about Plath describes a clinically depressed, lonesome woman in a country not her own. Abandoned with two small children and the spector of electroshock therapy and being institutionalized. Ted Hughes was partially responsible for what happened.
One other thing. I had a marriage similar to Plath and Hughes. I do not believe she would be happy with her married name being taken off in any manner from her tombstone or elsewhere. She died so soon after their separation that I'd call it 'incomplete;' primary seperations rarely take. I was adopted. I understand feeling a lack of identity, and her married name was a piece of identity puzzle. Whether one's intentions in taking 'Hughes' off were good or not, it was actually selfish and short-sighted.
I watched this years ago and now watch it again… always touched. Thank you!
So glad this was uploaded again. Excellent lecture. I’m a huge Plath fan.
Me too, I finally got the nerve to send my mother Daddy
A million likes couldn’t do you the justice for uploading these for everyone to see. Your lecture on Eliot will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you
AWESOME!
Please upload more regularly sir.
I don't have a knack for poetry, I'm learning, but I like her use of the word 'effacement' in a poem about a new baby and mother; it feels so apt. Effacement is what the cervix does during birth. Most people know of dilation, I think less know about effacement. It felt like an Easter egg kind of, like a hidden surprise.
I've listened to this several times over the past six years -- wonderful lecture!
how can we make this super man read a lecture on every book on this planet please
Thank you so much, absolutely brilliant.
Beautiful...am touched!
Hey i had this lecture last week 🙂
Thankyou
Good work. I liked that
One other thing. I had a marriage similar to Plath and Hughes. I do not believe she would be happy with her married name being taken off in any manner from her tombstone or elsewhere. She died so soon after their separation that I'd call it 'incomplete;' primary seperations rarely take.
I was adopted. I understand feeling a lack of identity, and her married name was a piece of identity puzzle. Whether one's intentions in taking 'Hughes' off were good or not, it was actually selfish and short-sighted.
I didn't finish your take on Woolf to hear this.
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The lecture reveals the inner fabric of plath poetry. Very enlightening.
Any updated thoughts on Plath or Hughes in light of Plath's letters and journal entries alleging that Hughes was quite abusive and possibly responsible for her miscarriage? I know personally it has sullied Hughes and The Birthday Letters in particular for me quite a bit...
Agreed. I wouldn't give quite the same lecture today, at least as regards their lives.
@@NickMount Sir I am a student of English Literature from Pakistan. I was introduced to you here on RUclips. I watched your lecture on 'Waiting for Godot'.
You have tremendous value to offer students of Literature across the world. Can you please record and upload your lectures regularly and frequently like Dr Jordan Peterson.
First it will be priceless for students of Literature all over the world. You make people fall in love with English Literature. My younger brother just finished high school, he was going for an undergraduate management science degree, after showing him your lecture on 'Waiting for Godot' he has now changed his mind and has applied for BS English program here at National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan!
Second, with regular uploads your RUclips channel can skyrocket in popularity which can then easily be monetized and would bring in good passive income for you. I will assist you managing/maintaining it.
Please consider. Thank you so much!
@@syedaizazbokhari Many thanks, Syed. I really just use this channel to share recordings of my lectures made by others, in this case TVO (TV Ontario). These lectures take many months--years, really--to write so I don't have an endless supply of them. I'm not Jordan Peterson, nor was meant to be. :)
@@NickMount I understand. Thank you. Eagerly waiting for new uploads. Regards and Love from Pakistan ❤
100%. The book Red Comet about Plath describes a clinically depressed, lonesome woman in a country not her own. Abandoned with two small children and the spector of electroshock therapy and being institutionalized. Ted Hughes was partially responsible for what happened.
This is salemanship
One other thing. I had a marriage similar to Plath and Hughes. I do not believe she would be happy with her married name being taken off in any manner from her tombstone or elsewhere. She died so soon after their separation that I'd call it 'incomplete;' primary seperations rarely take.
I was adopted. I understand feeling a lack of identity, and her married name was a piece of identity puzzle. Whether one's intentions in taking 'Hughes' off were good or not, it was actually selfish and short-sighted.