HaroldBloom - On The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- A clip from a PBS series called Voices and Visions - Wallace Stevens. This series focuses on American poets. Some of the poets covered are: Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, to name a few. Please treat yourself to this amazing series.
To watch Harold Bloom ca.1985 free associating on Wallace Stevens is to get some idea of what an amazing, inspiring teacher he must have been in his prime. Thanks for posting this.
I still love this video!
Imagine looking up at the northern lights and feeling... competitive. Wow.
Bloom is just brilliant! Real worth here.
Documentaries mixed anxiety and music so well with the cinematography so well in the 80s.
I am not sure why Mister Bloom states that Hart Crane is his favorite poet, unless it is Steven"s politics. But I have never seen Stevens so powerfully declaimed.
Your first sentence doesn't make complete sense. Bloom anyway would never judge a poem by a poet's politics. Shakespeare and Blake are presumably his favourites.
@@jimnewcombe7584Bloom had stated repeatedly that Hart Crane is his favorite modern poet and regretted that he was never able to find a recording of him reading his own poetry.
Blooms reveals the "act" of poetry...
He was a brilliant man
Your comments is insightful and I am grateful you appreciate this clip. It is a clip from Voices and Visions - Wallace Stevens. Google it to see the whole product and they have other poets in this series as well. Cheers!
RIP
It also calls back to "Dominantion in Black" (which also takes place during fall/autumn):
"I saw how the night came,
Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks
I felt afraid.
And I remembered the cry of the peacocks."
This image of "effulgent" color appearing in the night and making one feel "afraid", really seems to be hinting at Steven's understanding of the Sublime -- which is when beauty meets terror. So it's sort of dabbling with Kantian aesthetics. It likely isn't the external appearance of the colors themselves which make the narrator feel afraid (as visible waves of light, they are physically harmless), but their essential quality and what they represent -- i.e., indomitable nature outperforming the artist of a "single candle"; so it's a dialectic between the narrator thinking they can capture the aurora, then the aurora reclaiming its preeminence; and the feeling of being dominated is what produced the terror. That's why it happens in "autumn", "the fall", possibly standing for -- as Bloom suggests -- an aging poet's fear of falling into impotency in the face of grandiose nature which remains indescribable in language.
Wow, I never knew that Bloom never wrote a poem of his own.
I think there's one at the start of The Necessary Angel.
That thumbnail though
That was on shot 1:14 😅
Thank you for this
Harold bloom
Well that's definitely not the most flattering thumbnail you could have chosen...
Wow I didn't know Bloom used to be this intense. What is this from?
This is from a production called Voices and Visions, a series on American Poets. You will enjoy: it has feature videos on Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot and many more. www.learner.org/resources/series57.html
+WaleedRahman What a great series. Thanksfor that.
Thank you!
Available here: www.learner.org/series/voices-visions/wallace-stevens/
@@charlesedwardandrewlincoln8181 Thank you!
That nameless bit, of course, uniting the idea to a scene from The Eden tale in first Genesis.
The serpent, too, of course.
I love Bloom and appreciate his passion. But he is definitely taking his passion 'far' in this clip.
listen with eyes closed
He left half a shoulder and half a head / To recognize him in after time. [In the best sense possible.]
Is there anything about Emily Dickinson on here?
Is there a recording of the poem being read aloud anywhere?
A plenitude of recordings by the poet himself can be found here...wonderful baritone voice he has:
writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Stevens-Wallace.html
jesseboy303 Thank you for this link. Fantastic stuff.
Cameron Robert
Most welcome. At this level culture is spread by intimate word of mouth, rather than advertising/commerce broadly-cast...
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Some people who love Stevens have opined they dislike the recordings the poet made himself, that they are too slow, choppy and who knows what else...but I think his readings of Auroras and Ideas of Order and a few others are as dramatic and sublime as say a professional actor's.
Listen to as many of his recordings as time permits you Cameron, and let me know what you think...Stevens is a poet who can, slowly but surely, dominate one's thinking and feeling about poetry...(it literally took me years for his poetry to 'click'...but once it did, wow there is no turning back!)
regards-
I thought that was Daniel Johnston for a minute lol
Does anybody know where we could get the entirety of this recording? Or if we could find out what the name of the documentary is?
Do others know where we could access this entire PBS documentary? It seems it just from this clip alone that it was excellently put together
Charles, I think if you search for it under the title of "Voices and Visions," I think you might find it under there.
Steve Sears thanks Steve!
All thirteen episodes can be found here: www.learner.org/series/voices-visions/wallace-stevens/ They're all quite good.
What is the strong music in the background?
Respond to this video... Look for Voices and Visions on American poetry at your local library. You may buy them from amazon for about 15-25 dollars a feature. Also see the web dot learner dot org. They cover many excellent American poets in this series, including Eliot, Whitman, and Dickinson.
Cheers, to ART!
He's always looking down, away from any sort of eye contact.
Don't get me wrong though, I was just kidding around, trolling if you will.
I have a tempered respect for Bloom.
i know whenever i go on ridiculous outrageous monologues about shakespeare or whoever im into at the time, like when im drunk or somethin, i dont tend to look at who im talking to. yr not rly talking to someone when yr goin on like that hah yr rly involved in the forward momentum of yr logic or argument or point or whatever, not payin much attention to anything else, im usually rly focused on the right word and not getting distracted with unnecessary details or whatever. i mean, that's my take on it anyway
What tv series does this come from?
iFigaro2u www.learner.org/series/voices-visions/wallace-stevens/
Mister Boom
HAROLD BLOOM IS GOD !!!! and WALT WHITMAN IS THE AMERICAN CHRIST !!!! THIS IS THE AMERICAN RELIGION !
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If he has any idea whatsoever about what Wallace Stevens was really writing about, he does a wonderful job not showing it
I could tell him about Auroras (Illinois, Missouri, Colorado) and just how and where ressentiment is nurtured, and to what purpose...
he could read Wallace Stevens a thousand times without discovering its essential, such being the autumn of his patriarchy
What? Lol you’re saying non-sense
You think Stevens was alluding to three separate cities and not the northern lights?
I assume you mean the fearful state of mind living in lower working class conditions of those cities? If that’s what you mean by “ressentiment is nurtured.” But that’s a bit of a stretch considering Stevens himself says he writes about his relationship to weather and nature, which lends itself to the idea that he actually is just writing about his state of mind while observing the northern lights..
HAROLD BLOOM IS GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .. next to Whitman..(Whom is the American Christ.. Which was dictated by Harold Bloom Himself) .. Harold Bloom is my Brother in Spirit..
osiris sunra pompous ass
Bloom sucks.
this man was out of his mind
1:14 this is nothing 😅