Enjoyed the book haul!! According to my college professor, C.S. Lewis is one of the Big Kahunas of medieval and Renaissance literature studies. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Allegory of Love are his major tomes. My Cymbelne is the RSC edition, edited by Bate. Looks like it will be fun. Read your Chesterton! Over here in America, Penguin reprinted a cool looking edition of The Man Who Was Thursday, my favorite of his novels. Chesterton's study of Dickens is worth your time.
Yes I'm vaguely aware that C. S. Lewis is an expert in those areas - there are so many more books to read and learn! I hope you enjoy Cymbeline and Bate's essays! Glad to hear he's still well in print in America too. Thanks for the recommendations!
Hello, Nicole ✌️ 😀 I just discovered your channel through Kelly and Jason. Shaketember is gonna be a fun time! I myself am gonna read The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth 🧙♀️🧙♀️🧙♀️👑🏴
What a great haul! I was going back and forth between the video, Goodreads, and my library's website. I've never read anything by Jonathan Bate. I saw on his Goodreads profile that he's married to Paula Byrne. I've read her biographies of Jane Austen and Barbara Pym and enjoyed them both. That's intriguing that you loved Napoleon of Notting Hill! I have a goal to read more Chesterton.
So glad you find it interesting! Yes he is! I only found out recently too. The couple wrote so many amazing books. Have you read Napoleon? I love his essays too.
All that info is so interesting to me. Thank you for sharing those books and your thoughts with us. I’ll be on the lookout for the CS Lewis one especially. I’m finding it hard to wait until September to start Shaketember but trying to be patient. 😊
I didn't knew this book by CS Lewis! I have yet to read his fiction but I love his non fiction; you'll probably enjoy his "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature" and "The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes". Both my favorites from the ones that I read, which includes "The Four Loves", "An Experiment in Criticism" and "Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology".
Ooooh thanks for the recommendations. I haven't heard of 'the Reading Life'. He wrote so much, it's hard to keep up! I also recently got his 'Allegory of Love' about Medieval stuff. But everything he writes is gold! (And so sorry for the sloooow reply. Been busy with the beginning of uni term!)
@@adayofsmallthings I must warn you that the Reading Life it's a compilation of essays and snippets from his letters, not a book that he wrote. Good luck with your studies!
Jonathan Bate’s mad about Shakespeare is just fantastic ! Read it! It a deeply personal and so deeply moving, sometimes funny journey into Shakespeare ’s world. My book cover is different from yours though. Thank you for😊 your videos, they are always so inspiring.
Enjoyed the book haul!!
According to my college professor, C.S. Lewis is one of the Big Kahunas of medieval and Renaissance literature studies.
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Allegory of Love are his major tomes.
My Cymbelne is the RSC edition, edited by Bate. Looks like it will be fun.
Read your Chesterton!
Over here in America, Penguin reprinted a cool looking edition of The Man Who Was Thursday, my favorite of his novels.
Chesterton's study of Dickens is worth your time.
Yes I'm vaguely aware that C. S. Lewis is an expert in those areas - there are so many more books to read and learn!
I hope you enjoy Cymbeline and Bate's essays!
Glad to hear he's still well in print in America too. Thanks for the recommendations!
Hello, Nicole ✌️ 😀
I just discovered your channel through Kelly and Jason. Shaketember is gonna be a fun time! I myself am gonna read The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth 🧙♀️🧙♀️🧙♀️👑🏴
Thanks for stopping by. Nice meeting you!
Great choices. I haven’t read The Taming of the Shrew. Really glad you can join us!
What a great haul! I was going back and forth between the video, Goodreads, and my library's website. I've never read anything by Jonathan Bate. I saw on his Goodreads profile that he's married to Paula Byrne. I've read her biographies of Jane Austen and Barbara Pym and enjoyed them both. That's intriguing that you loved Napoleon of Notting Hill! I have a goal to read more Chesterton.
So glad you find it interesting!
Yes he is! I only found out recently too. The couple wrote so many amazing books.
Have you read Napoleon? I love his essays too.
@@adayofsmallthings I haven't read Napoleon yet, but I also love his essays. He's so pithy!
@@elizabethbrink3761 Yes he is!
All that info is so interesting to me. Thank you for sharing those books and your thoughts with us. I’ll be on the lookout for the CS Lewis one especially. I’m finding it hard to wait until September to start Shaketember but trying to be patient. 😊
Glad you find it interesting and hope you find the book ok :)
Aww that’s so lovely to hear!
I didn't knew this book by CS Lewis! I have yet to read his fiction but I love his non fiction; you'll probably enjoy his "On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature" and "The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes". Both my favorites from the ones that I read, which includes "The Four Loves", "An Experiment in Criticism" and "Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology".
Ooooh thanks for the recommendations. I haven't heard of 'the Reading Life'. He wrote so much, it's hard to keep up! I also recently got his 'Allegory of Love' about Medieval stuff. But everything he writes is gold! (And so sorry for the sloooow reply. Been busy with the beginning of uni term!)
@@adayofsmallthings I must warn you that the Reading Life it's a compilation of essays and snippets from his letters, not a book that he wrote. Good luck with your studies!
Jonathan Bate’s mad about Shakespeare is just fantastic ! Read it! It a deeply personal and so deeply moving, sometimes funny journey into Shakespeare ’s world. My book cover is different from yours though. Thank you for😊 your videos, they are always so inspiring.
Yes it is! It’s a wonderful book. So glad you love it too.
Thank you :)