Seeing all the comments about GCSE homework and I'm here watching this for Uni English lit! That's right kids! It doesn't get any better than this! **crys in to keyboard**
Who wouldn't fall in love with William Blake. Synchronicity is nature, unfolding, entwined into reality, reflecting everything abous us, to us so ee see the sines. I used to go to Ullswater on holiday as a child. My mother was from the lake district.
The students who are “suffering” through this documentary remind me of the Mark Twain quote… “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” ~ Mark Twain
Okay so my English literature class just finished and my professor recommended we watch this BBC documentary to get a better idea of the Romantics. We'll be studying Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly, Blake etc. this semester and I have to say I'm quite excited!
For everyone that's here because of school. EVERYTHING you know about love today comes from the romantics. The fact that you marry someone you love comes from them, the fact that sex is an act of love comes from them, the concept of soul mates and love at first sight. The concept that your intuition will tell you who to marry and that your partner should accept you for who you are, flaws and all. NONE of that existed before the romantics. Everything you think you know about love and relationships comes from them. The romantic philosophers of the 18th century had such a profound effect on society that people now grow up believing it as fact and take their philosophy as the word of God when it comes to relationships.
As sweet as this, it also is not true. Im not saying any of this to take away from the romantics (because they did influence so much), but soul mates have exisisted in numerous cultures across time. Take the red thread of fate from Chinese mythology. Marrying for love, or love in marriage can also be cited everywhere. Also these were all British writers, to whom had an affect on the western world. Emphasis on western world.
Those are just some aspects of their ideals and some of them aren't but there are more. Also like the comment before mine said, some of the concepts like "soulmates", certain forms of popular romances are not their sole creations or thoughts. They exist/existed across different cultures and societies around the world, for example - the Chinese myth of "The Butterfly Lover" or Some tales from "Genji Monogatari" etc. Romantics are not just about Romances, there's a distinct difference between these two words. E.g. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by S.T. Coleridge, "Peter Bell" by Wordsworth, both of which are about the redemption of the Human Soul. You could also read them as a psychological allegory of self acknowledgement/realisation and and so on.
Western white people didn't invent the concept of love. No shade to any of the romantics either, it's just that these concepts have existed in varying forms across a many different cultures.
I'm just wondering here whether English romantics could be influenced by Asian culture or other than European for that matter. Does anybody know? I mean if impressionist and post-impressionist painters were influenced heavily by japanese prints, why not these romantics by something different.
I am an English Teacher and I've asked my Elective English students to watch this video. If you watched it dear students, please comment here :) Thank you for the enlightening video, BBC.
hello . i'm a student of english literature and this time i have a paper on romanticism. at first the poems didn't made much sense to me but now i'm drawn to romantic thought and am preparing to write a paper on women in Romanticism . Could you suggest some works or you could tell me your favorite ones.
As a University graduate that took the Arts I find it hilarious that people would be bored by this video it's very excellent and just says more about their lack of intelligence than anything
Just because someone isn't interested in the same things as you doesn't mean they "lack intelligence." The only thing you achieve with a comment like that is perpetuate the idea that all art students are pretentious assholes.
@@samkennington3007 His is right in this instance though.If you cant find this video interesting there is definenetly something lacking in you,be it intelligence,appreciation of culture,emotional empathy or a love of nature,thats sad
what in particular are you insinuating by; 'says more about their lack of intelligence than anything'. Where's the context, your subjective comment is only a by-product of your lack of self awareness.
not at all the production quality kept distracting me and I'd much rather read about this stuff this documentary was interesting but the people in this didnt really connect with me the way some other poets have
The Romantics is a BBC documentary series presented by Peter Ackroyd, exploring the turbulent story of the pioneers of modern imagination: their private pleasures, personal dreams and political passions. The series follows the growth of the Romantic idea through three episodes: Liberty, Nature, and Eternity. The main focus is the work and lives of some of the giants of the Romantic movement, William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The main character however, is the idea itself, how it is relayed, how it affects change in people and in the world itself. Episode 1 - Liberty This episode explores the birth of the individual in modern society, through the work and lives of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Episode 2 - Nature This episode examines the birth of the modern notion of nature, through the work and lives of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley. Episode 3 - Eternity This episode tells the story of a search for meaning, in a world without God, through the work and lives of John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley.
The thing is though everything you know about love today comes from the romantics. The fact that you marry someone you love comes from them, the fact that sex is an act of love comes from them, the concept of soul mates and love at first sight. The concept that your intuition will tell you who to marry and that your partner should accept you for who you are, flaws and all. NONE of that existed before the romantics. Everything you think you know about love and relationships comes from them. The romantic philosophers of the 18th century had such a profound effect on society that people grow up believing it as fact and take their philosophy as the word of God when it comes to relationships.
If you don't like this video, that's perfectly fine. If you do like it, that's fine too. No one's more intelligent than someone else based on whether or not they like a specific documentary. I personally don't like this documentary, but I like the information in it, I just feel it could've been presented better. I've seen so many people (presumably adults) bully, mock and attempt to ridicule or shame teens in the comments, calling them names and insulting their intelligence. Just because they may not like this doesn't mean that they can't be smart.
@@TheMarshmelloKing "I have a very narrow view of how people should be. I also love to moralize people's likes and dislikes so that I can look superior, and everyone else can look abnormal."
@@alexxz8126 are you five years old and someone said something to you in the playground that made you cry, so you run home to mummy? Grow up. Do you realise how many generations of young people before yours studied the works of these great people and actually had the capacity to learn and take something away from their study to serve them for life? These are not just the boring, irrelevant words of dead people as the original post suggests, but knowledge for the ages. Ignorance and lack of interest will not a well-rounded, educated individual make!
Thank you a lot, I'm trying to fall in love with romantics and this video has helped me a good deal. I only wish real Wordsworth didn't look as spooky as he did in this video.
Blake's poetry is among the best poetry ever written. I found no difficulty with it when doing GCSE. Better than any songs you're listening to, undoubtedly
i had no idea mount tambora had such a dark influence on western mind into darkness.. i wondered where byron got his inspirations. seemingly those fears were very real, i knew of the effects of the industrial revolution, but i had no idea the volcano in indonesia altered a whole summer weather pattern in england. thank you for this!
Wordsworth is very much alive in the States, where the subject of most poetry, following in his wake, is the poet's own subjectivity. This is true even in personal essays, where the emphasis is more on reproducing, rather than recording, particular experiences. It's a difference that's more easily felt in side-by side comparisons, than is to describe. One more inhabits the writer's own perspective when in the recollecting mood, and in so doing enjoys an immediacy of communion with them that would not be possible by less introspective means. One thing this documentary does get right is in its portrayal of Wordsworth as a young man who sought extreme experiences in wild places, as far away from civilization as he could get without suicidal abandonment to the risks of doing so. They also got it right that it was, in his time, a strange and radical thing to do, while now it's practically what's expected of hardy and well-to-do dudes with a taste for going to the heights and so-forth. I'm not like that and prefer to stay put as a Khan amidst suburban creature-comforts, but I've known more than one guy who finds the perspective much too confining for imaginative comfort.
Reading only half of the coments made me sickened by the products "who call themselves human", how marvelous that you have your smart phones to entertain youselves and ignore the world around you, the modern world has indeed produced numb, halfwits seeking to drug themselves on the latest thrill, devouring food without exersizing, consuming plastic without recycling, critisizing artists without feeling for them.
Very well said. And I will add to it by saying that many self-appointed 'critics' swarm all over the internet criticising artists and writers, when they themselves are nothing but talentless individuals who have never created anything original in their lives. Just attention whores, seeking to gain their 15 minutes of internet fame by riding on the backs of famous people who are famous for their genuine talent. Unlike the numbskull generation of today.
It’s not that dramatic, just a shit documentary. You’re not better than everyone just because you enjoy watching something others don’t you quirky loser
If one has the inclination; highly recommend reading William Blake. The highlight of my life, was watching Allen Ginsberg, sing Blake live with a lap organ... Heavenly ❤
I've always been slightly envious of William Blake, I've experience strange things, paranormal, one ufo, many moments and dreams of clairvoyance and i am a big enthusiast of Blake's artwork and always to copy his paitings with pencil. Having all those visions he had, i wonder did he eat well and somehow have a cleansed Pineal gland?, or was he schizophrenic?; if he died in this day and age you would of had someone wanting to examine his brain, the same thing that happened to Einstein after his died.
Thank you for this - I enjoyed it greatly although I can't agree with the statement that the way we relish a sunset is something that we have learned from the romantics. I cannot doubt that people have been relishing sunsets well before Wordsworth (whom I've never rated highly but perhaps understand a little better now)!
The thrust of your comment shows just how completely the Romantic Age has captured us to this day. It seems impossible to grasp that people have ever looked at sunsets differently than we do.
William Blake...controversially, William O'Neill... That William Blake was of Irish descent was asserted by W.B. Yeats and Edwin J. Ellis in their landmark edition of Blake’s works in 1893, from which the modern study of the poet derives. The notion of Blake’s Irish origin was not Yeats invention. In the introduction he wrote to an edition of Blake’s poems published in The Muses Library in 1905 he provides an epitome of the theory. “Early in the 18th Century, a certain John O’Neill got into debt and difficulties, these latter apparently political to some extent; and escaped both by marrying a woman named Ellen Blake, who kept a sheebeen at Rathmines, Dublin, and taking her name. He had a son James, I am told, by a previous wife or mistress, and this son also took the name of Blake, and in due course married, settled in London as a hosier, and became the father of five children one of whom was the [poet William Blake]. John O’Neill had also a son by his wife Ellen; and this son, settling in Malaga, in Spain, entered the wine trade, and became the founder of a family, and from one of this family, Dr Carter Blake, I have the story.” This, to an Irish mind, seems a very reasonable descent. The best that modern scholarship can report is that Blake’s grandfather was a James Blake, gentleman, of Rotherhithe, of whom little is known.
News to me, maybe he did have some Irish roots, but we can't claim everything for ourselves all the time, maybe he had a lot of English roots too; there are brilliant people from other countries too y'know. Still though, sounds interesting, must check it out.
Timestamps (Powered by Merlin AI) 00:03 - The Romantics sought freedom in nature during the industrial revolution. 04:48 - Romantics believed in childhood visions as a source of inspiration 14:28 - William Blake's protest against industrial corruption 19:18 - Coleridge redefines parenthood and embraces nature for his child. 27:31 - Wordsworth's journey through the Alps for emotional experience 32:45 - Wordsworth and Dorothy's profound connection with nature 42:29 - Enclosure Acts transformed the countryside, impacting John Clare's life. 45:59 - The eruption of Mount Tambora and its impact on nature and society. 53:22 - Frankenstein warns of the misuse of science and the importance of respecting nature. 56:58 - The Romantics connected nature to the human soul.
This is a very informative documentary...but....there are too many pauses and they are too long. So, in 50 minutes, I think they could've given much more info
The romantics wrote the Most beautiful Poems of humanity. I live to Read Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Victor Hugo, Alphonse de Lamartine, André Chénier, Alvares de Zevedo, Castro Alves, Manoel Bandeira, Almeida Garrett, Camoes, Goethe, Holderlin and many others.
@@beverlyhayshouston2770 It depends how you look at the economies of the average family. Many families simply could not financially afford to send their children to school in the 18th century and in the 19th century in England and the rest of Britain. They would all starve to death if the children went to school. Life has always been hard- today, the poorest people in England are workers who cannot get a mortgage because it would take two lifetimes to save for just the 20% deposit! That's TODAY! Hopefully, the poor will develop excellent business brains like some poor people did in every century. It is the way out. Set up your own business. Mo other way. At least it is not illegal to do this in the West.
Prepare for comments by lots of trolls who are "bored" because they can only watch hip hop videos and others who see themselves as geniuses of film making pretending to be giving a grade to the editing
Gmail Gmail Peter's lisp? What is wrong with you. From humble beginnings, Peter Ackroyd has contributed more to our culture than you will ever appreciate, let alone rival. I'm sure in 100 years scholars will be poring over the wisdom contained in your UA-cam comments.
It is not a "lisp." It is called rhotacism -- difficulty saying the letter "r" -- and is evident in other British speakers such as Oliver Sacks. Certainly not something to be criticized.
No, the Germans pioneered it, think Goethe and Schiller, but closer behind them was the English. Yeah, I know, it is "Not invented here." But this leaves out the eruption of Mt. Tomboro, which shifts the emphasis of the romantic. Thus the mid-period works have a ferocity that was not present in the earlier works. I am thinking of "The Mask of Anarchy", the 9th Symphony of Beethoven &c. Poor judgment from a fine network.
My favorite part is when they're filming the reading of a poem in a modern sewing shop. And there's some post of a a sexy male model on one of the desks.
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Damn this is some exciting homework. Anyone else watching this for tomorrow?
your mamma
Yep
Do you have the worksheet
@@athirajkumar137 lol no sorry, that was a very long time ago. I'm not sure I even had a worksheet for it.
you know too much
Seeing all the comments about GCSE homework and I'm here watching this for Uni English lit! That's right kids! It doesn't get any better than this! **crys in to keyboard**
Poetry doesn't get any better than theirs.
Im watching for my A-Levels! 🙂
Me too, but I'm from Brazil
Who wouldn't fall in love with William Blake.
Synchronicity is nature, unfolding, entwined into reality, reflecting everything abous us, to us so ee see the sines.
I used to go to Ullswater on holiday as a child. My mother was from the lake district.
The students who are “suffering” through this documentary remind me of the Mark Twain quote…
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
~ Mark Twain
This made me laugh. Nice. Thanks for this.
EXACTLY.
this comment section makes my homework a bit more bearable, thank you guys :))
Can you please show ur homework? Im suffering
What a wonderful program. I love the poetry of the Romantics. Thank the Heavens for the BBC/PBS
Am I the only guy here who doesn't have homework? Just watching this because I enjoy reading the romantics?
You just weird
ME TOO!!
@@jerm2122 Perhaps. :D
with you bro
All these morons with an IQ of 40 bitching about watching this AMAZING documentary. It’s disgusting
Okay so my English literature class just finished and my professor recommended we watch this BBC documentary to get a better idea of the Romantics. We'll be studying Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly, Blake etc. this semester and I have to say I'm quite excited!
For everyone that's here because of school. EVERYTHING you know about love today comes from the romantics. The fact that you marry someone you love comes from them, the fact that sex is an act of love comes from them, the concept of soul mates and love at first sight. The concept that your intuition will tell you who to marry and that your partner should accept you for who you are, flaws and all. NONE of that existed before the romantics. Everything you think you know about love and relationships comes from them. The romantic philosophers of the 18th century had such a profound effect on society that people now grow up believing it as fact and take their philosophy as the word of God when it comes to relationships.
As sweet as this, it also is not true. Im not saying any of this to take away from the romantics (because they did influence so much), but soul mates have exisisted in numerous cultures across time. Take the red thread of fate from Chinese mythology. Marrying for love, or love in marriage can also be cited everywhere. Also these were all British writers, to whom had an affect on the western world. Emphasis on western world.
Those are just some aspects of their ideals and some of them aren't but there are more. Also like the comment before mine said, some of the concepts like "soulmates", certain forms of popular romances are not their sole creations or thoughts. They exist/existed across different cultures and societies around the world, for example - the Chinese myth of "The Butterfly Lover" or Some tales from "Genji Monogatari" etc. Romantics are not just about Romances, there's a distinct difference between these two words.
E.g. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by S.T. Coleridge, "Peter Bell" by Wordsworth, both of which are about the redemption of the Human Soul. You could also read them as a psychological allegory of self acknowledgement/realisation and and so on.
Western white people didn't invent the concept of love. No shade to any of the romantics either, it's just that these concepts have existed in varying forms across a many different cultures.
I'm just wondering here whether English romantics could be influenced by Asian culture or other than European for that matter. Does anybody know? I mean if impressionist and post-impressionist painters were influenced heavily by japanese prints, why not these romantics by something different.
I am an English Teacher and I've asked my Elective English students to watch this video.
If you watched it dear students, please comment here :) Thank you for the enlightening video, BBC.
watched, sir
Watched, sir
done sir !
i have watched it sir ;)
😜😜🤪🤪🤪
This documentary just saved my life.
Pov: you're suffering for English Homework
@@mitchellbanfield2290 *im suffering too* 🙃😿
no way, same
Oh my god yes I’m pretty much dead. I wish I could at least watch it in class, cause then we could at least laugh.
@@sunnydays07 gl my guy 😭🖤
@@Leoshti thx 🤍
I love this documentary! I love reading the Romantics and this series was very informative.
hello . i'm a student of english literature and this time i have a paper on romanticism. at first the poems didn't made much sense to me but now i'm drawn to romantic thought and am preparing to write a paper on women in Romanticism . Could you suggest some works or you could tell me your favorite ones.
@@nuri2318 bit of a necro don't you think?
stfu nurd
are you kidding me? this shit is making me go insane!
Great documentary from Peter Ackroyd.
As a University graduate that took the Arts I find it hilarious that people would be bored by this video it's very excellent and just says more about their lack of intelligence than anything
Just because someone isn't interested in the same things as you doesn't mean they "lack intelligence." The only thing you achieve with a comment like that is perpetuate the idea that all art students are pretentious assholes.
@@samkennington3007 His is right in this instance though.If you cant find this video interesting there is definenetly something lacking in you,be it intelligence,appreciation of culture,emotional empathy or a love of nature,thats sad
what in particular are you insinuating by; 'says more about their lack of intelligence than anything'. Where's the context, your subjective comment is only a by-product of your lack of self awareness.
not at all the production quality kept distracting me and I'd much rather read about this stuff this documentary was interesting but the people in this didnt really connect with me the way some other poets have
gerry o sullivan They can watch violent video games for hours on end without complaint.
The Romantics is a BBC documentary series presented by Peter Ackroyd, exploring the turbulent story of the pioneers of modern imagination: their private pleasures, personal dreams and political passions. The series follows the growth of the Romantic idea through three episodes: Liberty, Nature, and Eternity. The main focus is the work and lives of some of the giants of the Romantic movement, William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The main character however, is the idea itself, how it is relayed, how it affects change in people and in the world itself.
Episode 1 - Liberty
This episode explores the birth of the individual in modern society, through the work and lives of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Episode 2 - Nature
This episode examines the birth of the modern notion of nature, through the work and lives of William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley.
Episode 3 - Eternity
This episode tells the story of a search for meaning, in a world without God, through the work and lives of John Keats, Lord Byron, and Percy Shelley.
Really enjoyed this, romanticism and the romantics have influenced so much of the modern world, in art, nature, philosophy, poetry and architecture.
Love this. I just retired and am redoing all my old college courses. Only this time, I’m doing the homework.😀😏😀
were you a student of English literature ?
pov: your here from an english lesson
yes , anybody else here for English ?
how did u know
Its been 7 years now since this was released and students including me still suffering. I wonder how the producer was tortured by his teacher.
And here we are
With something far less entertaining I'd imagine
Bless our time
no it was released in april of 2014 so its only been 6 years
This is true torture.
The thing is though everything you know about love today comes from the romantics. The fact that you marry someone you love comes from them, the fact that sex is an act of love comes from them, the concept of soul mates and love at first sight. The concept that your intuition will tell you who to marry and that your partner should accept you for who you are, flaws and all. NONE of that existed before the romantics. Everything you think you know about love and relationships comes from them. The romantic philosophers of the 18th century had such a profound effect on society that people grow up believing it as fact and take their philosophy as the word of God when it comes to relationships.
Guys this is much more bearable if you turn off this video and watch anything else
My guy, have you heard of 2x speed?
@@emeraldtriforce2429 oml you just saved me from suffering, thank you
@@puncture9796 I’m watching this for pleasure, why are you all complaining?
@@DuskAndHerEmbrace13 I had to watch this for English and I didn't want to. Im just not into this stuff
@@puncture9796 I’m watching it rn for English 😀
Wow! I love this. It grabs my attention.
‘the spirit had been clapping its ass for joy’ lol @ 9:31
Wonderful documentary...evocative and artistic.
u serius this video is sooooo bad
coorrrrr this is class
Simply beautiful ❤
You can listen to it in 1.5 X speed and it still seems slow
That's why you use 2X speed
If you don't like this video, that's perfectly fine. If you do like it, that's fine too. No one's more intelligent than someone else based on whether or not they like a specific documentary. I personally don't like this documentary, but I like the information in it, I just feel it could've been presented better. I've seen so many people (presumably adults) bully, mock and attempt to ridicule or shame teens in the comments, calling them names and insulting their intelligence. Just because they may not like this doesn't mean that they can't be smart.
Nah. This documentary is beautiful, if you don’t like it, there’s something wrong with you.
@@TheMarshmelloKing "I have a very narrow view of how people should be. I also love to moralize people's likes and dislikes so that I can look superior, and everyone else can look abnormal."
Hello Beths Grammar School, Ms Clough is glad that you came here
anyone that has to watch this for homework (eng lit gcse), put it on 1.5x speed, it's a bit more bearable :)
You are exactly the type of numbskull, brainless individual so typical of the Millenium generation. The future of this planet does not look so bright.
@@anonymousforever why you gotta be so mean?
si james i mean, i know what ‘Anonymous Forever’ meant and i agree but why does he/she have to be so mean about it
@@alexxz8126 are you five years old and someone said something to you in the playground that made you cry, so you run home to mummy? Grow up. Do you realise how many generations of young people before yours studied the works of these great people and actually had the capacity to learn and take something away from their study to serve them for life? These are not just the boring, irrelevant words of dead people as the original post suggests, but knowledge for the ages. Ignorance and lack of interest will not a well-rounded, educated individual make!
@@fatin2051 ditto for you as for Alex xz. Grow up.
3:18 Bro can you move out the way people trying to get to work
Hi
@@willwhitehead7368 hi
😂
the comments lol am i one of the only people watching this for enjoyment lol
Just a inquisitive 57 yr old ... Yearning for something sane and archaic, in this modern world of 2024
Maybe another video should include Keats and Shelley as well..
I’m obsessed with them. This is my Egyptology.
Brilliant documentary ‼️👌🏻🙂
Great minds are chosen, and Greatness showers from above. They are the Chosen Romantics.
On my second view of this brilliant documentary. There's many more amazing Romantic poets to discover
Thank you a lot, I'm trying to fall in love with romantics and this video has helped me a good deal. I only wish real Wordsworth didn't look as spooky as he did in this video.
Brilliant series,thanks.
lmaoo anybody else get this shit for online work?
yes its so boring
Boring is when you have to do something and not something you want to do. That is the tragedy of life.
Yeah but unpopular opinion I like it haha
Blake's poetry is among the best poetry ever written. I found no difficulty with it when doing GCSE. Better than any songs you're listening to, undoubtedly
Wonderful documentary
Wow!!! It is an amazing and informative documentary, Thanks.
Enjoyed this
Oh shit better grab the popcorn 😄🍿
i had no idea mount tambora had such a dark influence on western mind into darkness.. i wondered where byron got his inspirations. seemingly those fears were very real, i knew of the effects of the industrial revolution, but i had no idea the volcano in indonesia altered a whole summer weather pattern in england. thank you for this!
Beautiful and awe-inspiring.
Wordsworth is very much alive in the States, where the subject of most poetry, following in his wake, is the poet's own subjectivity. This is true even in personal essays, where the emphasis is more on reproducing, rather than recording, particular experiences. It's a difference that's more easily felt in side-by side comparisons, than is to describe. One more inhabits the writer's own perspective when in the recollecting mood, and in so doing enjoys an immediacy of communion with them that would not be possible by less introspective means.
One thing this documentary does get right is in its portrayal of Wordsworth as a young man who sought extreme experiences in wild places, as far away from civilization as he could get without suicidal abandonment to the risks of doing so. They also got it right that it was, in his time, a strange and radical thing to do, while now it's practically what's expected of hardy and well-to-do dudes with a taste for going to the heights and so-forth. I'm not like that and prefer to stay put as a Khan amidst suburban creature-comforts, but I've known more than one guy who finds the perspective much too confining for imaginative comfort.
+James Roach Very interesting comment James. Thank you for that tid-bit of insight.
agreed.
James Roach Kkkko.!!5u
Reading only half of the coments made me sickened by the products "who call themselves human", how marvelous that you have your smart phones to entertain youselves and ignore the world around you, the modern world has indeed produced numb, halfwits seeking to drug themselves on the latest thrill, devouring food without exersizing, consuming plastic without recycling, critisizing artists without feeling for them.
Very well said. And I will add to it by saying that many self-appointed 'critics' swarm all over the internet criticising artists and writers, when they themselves are nothing but talentless individuals who have never created anything original in their lives. Just attention whores, seeking to gain their 15 minutes of internet fame by riding on the backs of famous people who are famous for their genuine talent. Unlike the numbskull generation of today.
Yes, alas, most of the comments and replies on UA-cam are shallow, vapid, disappointing, defiantly unoriginal.
Lmao what a shit comment. Romanticism can be beautiful but this documentary is honestly shit
It’s not that dramatic, just a shit documentary. You’re not better than everyone just because you enjoy watching something others don’t you quirky loser
yet your sat here on your device
If one has the inclination; highly recommend reading William Blake. The highlight of my life, was watching Allen Ginsberg, sing Blake live with a lap organ...
Heavenly ❤
I've always been slightly envious of William Blake, I've experience strange things, paranormal, one ufo, many moments and dreams of clairvoyance and i am a big enthusiast of Blake's artwork and always to copy his paitings with pencil. Having all those visions he had, i wonder did he eat well and somehow have a cleansed Pineal gland?, or was he schizophrenic?; if he died in this day and age you would of had someone wanting to examine his brain, the same thing that happened to Einstein after his died.
what notes should i take
none apart from watch these in speed 1.5x
Wordsworth 22:45
legend
THANK YOUUUUUUU
And I am here, not for homework,but for poetry
It’s amazing, awesome,so realistic to understand romanticism
My brain is numb, I better get a good grade on my eng lit GCSE !!
Did you do good?
Two really rare things: 1.) solar eclipse, 2) the fact that somebody (in this case me) is not here for English homework
This is not homework! This is fascinating :)
Oh no the spirit man has got me help!!!
The Romantic Movement was one of the most important events of humanity at all!
It brought us away from soul sicknes, stupidity and errant sin....🦇
the quality is fire in this one
I love documentaries but being forced to watch all three of these documentaries for English kind of takes the fun out of it 😂😂😂
The overly dramatic style of this thing is way over the top, and distracting from the information. Hard to watch.
si james we have to watch it though . It’s our homework 😂 and everyone is allowed to express their opinion !
Artists are one hope for humankind to escape the heinous claws of Google, Facebook, Twitter....
Thank you for this - I enjoyed it greatly although I can't agree with the statement that the way we relish a sunset is something that we have learned from the romantics. I cannot doubt that people have been relishing sunsets well before Wordsworth (whom I've never rated highly but perhaps understand a little better now)!
The thrust of your comment shows just how completely the Romantic Age has captured us to this day. It seems impossible to grasp that people have ever looked at sunsets differently than we do.
yoooo same. Immanual Kant would have a lot to say about that comment.
William Blake...controversially, William O'Neill...
That William Blake was of Irish descent was asserted by W.B. Yeats and Edwin J. Ellis in their landmark edition of Blake’s works in 1893, from which the modern study of the poet derives. The notion of Blake’s Irish origin was not Yeats invention. In the introduction he wrote to an edition of Blake’s poems published in The Muses Library in 1905 he provides an epitome of the theory.
“Early in the 18th Century, a certain John O’Neill got into debt and difficulties, these latter apparently political to some extent; and escaped both by marrying a woman named Ellen Blake, who kept a sheebeen at Rathmines, Dublin, and taking her name. He had a son James, I am told, by a previous wife or mistress, and this son also took the name of Blake, and in due course married, settled in London as a hosier, and became the father of five children one of whom was the [poet William Blake]. John O’Neill had also a son by his wife Ellen; and this son, settling in Malaga, in Spain, entered the wine trade, and became the founder of a family, and from one of this family, Dr Carter Blake, I have the story.”
This, to an Irish mind, seems a very reasonable descent. The best that modern scholarship can report is that Blake’s grandfather was a James Blake, gentleman, of Rotherhithe, of whom little is known.
News to me, maybe he did have some Irish roots, but we can't claim everything for ourselves all the time, maybe he had a lot of English roots too; there are brilliant people from other countries too y'know. Still though, sounds interesting, must check it out.
Timestamps (Powered by Merlin AI)
00:03 - The Romantics sought freedom in nature during the industrial revolution.
04:48 - Romantics believed in childhood visions as a source of inspiration
14:28 - William Blake's protest against industrial corruption
19:18 - Coleridge redefines parenthood and embraces nature for his child.
27:31 - Wordsworth's journey through the Alps for emotional experience
32:45 - Wordsworth and Dorothy's profound connection with nature
42:29 - Enclosure Acts transformed the countryside, impacting John Clare's life.
45:59 - The eruption of Mount Tambora and its impact on nature and society.
53:22 - Frankenstein warns of the misuse of science and the importance of respecting nature.
56:58 - The Romantics connected nature to the human soul.
This is the best homework I've ever had!
wtf do u mean
@@chs_ox7063 i had to do it for homework cos of covid 19 lol
This is a very informative documentary...but....there are too many pauses and they are too long. So, in 50 minutes, I think they could've given much more info
The BBC did a great series recently on the romantics but I can't find it on iPlayer anymore. Anyone know where to find it?
The romantics wrote the Most beautiful Poems of humanity. I live to Read Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Victor Hugo, Alphonse de Lamartine, André Chénier, Alvares de Zevedo, Castro Alves, Manoel Bandeira, Almeida Garrett, Camoes, Goethe, Holderlin and many others.
Why not Wordsworth..
@@Zodwards08 Sorry, I forgot him, but I have his complete works, and also Coleridge, all his Poems, all are delightful to read
awww you included Castro Alves and Manoel Bandeira. Are you brazilian?
@@priiifrg yes, i am brazilian and Canadian citizen.
Feel sad for the children at that time.
Charles Dickens fought to abolish child labor.
@@beverlyhayshouston2770 It depends how you look at the economies of the average family. Many families simply could not financially afford to send their children to school in the 18th century and in the 19th century in England and the rest of Britain. They would all starve to death if the children went to school. Life has always been hard- today, the poorest people in England are workers who cannot get a mortgage because it would take two lifetimes to save for just the 20% deposit! That's TODAY! Hopefully, the poor will develop excellent business brains like some poor people did in every century. It is the way out. Set up your own business. Mo other way. At least it is not illegal to do this in the West.
Please, where are the other videos, about death and night?
i dont want to suffer any more
Prepare for comments by lots of trolls who are "bored" because they can only watch hip hop videos and others who see themselves as geniuses of film making pretending to be giving a grade to the editing
You are spot on with this observation.
PAHA i can just tell your probably 50+, thinking all millenials just watch hipop, this aint 1989
What’s with all the videos being super old? Can’t they make us watch more modern videos ?
The fuzziness of this video brings me physical pain...
mint vid
This seems to be "Part 2". Would you let me know where to find Part 1? This is extremely well-written.
Part 1: The Romantics - Liberty BBC Documentary
It should pop right up
Oh No! It's Dudley Sutton!
why is it in 240p 😫
TRIPLE SPEED! TRIPLE SPEED!
I'm here for enjoyment and listening to English. also I hope to find someone to practice english language with him ❤
can someone make this video just an audio without all the background music and dramatic pauses
low IQ versions is available with jump-cuts, using right mouse button.
Yes
someone help me do my essay?
No way
Ria!!!
@@louisharrison7563 yo what :D
The Frankenstein Chronicles on Netflix is a good show.
46.32 Mary Shelley
Music makes a lot of noise ..
this is better than doing an essay......but still bruh
11:56 the parents.. Ice in the fucking veins
1.5 speed is so much better
is this the second or third episode?
second
1.5x speed. That is all you need to know.
I watched it at 1.7x 😂 I walk on the wild side 😂
So much distraction: inappropriately loud music, annoying sound effects, confusing contemporary street scenes, poor actors crucifying the texts, Peter's lisp, URG!
Gmail Gmail Peter's lisp? What is wrong with you. From humble beginnings, Peter Ackroyd has contributed more to our culture than you will ever appreciate, let alone rival. I'm sure in 100 years scholars will be poring over the wisdom contained in your UA-cam comments.
It is not a "lisp." It is called rhotacism -- difficulty saying the letter "r" -- and is evident in other British speakers such as Oliver Sacks. Certainly not something to be criticized.
@gmail gmail totally backing up eveyone else here . so what if he stutters ?
No, the Germans pioneered it, think Goethe and Schiller, but closer behind them was the English. Yeah, I know, it is "Not invented here." But this leaves out the eruption of Mt. Tomboro, which shifts the emphasis of the romantic. Thus the mid-period works have a ferocity that was not present in the earlier works. I am thinking of "The Mask of Anarchy", the 9th Symphony of Beethoven &c. Poor judgment from a fine network.
The gothic special effects and ambiance music is really off-putting.
Blake loved Gothic imagery. So do I. It is beautiful and evocative.
Why have I got this for English ? 😭
same 👨🏼🦲
My favorite part is when they're filming the reading of a poem in a modern sewing shop. And there's some post of a a sexy male model on one of the desks.
Shallow idiot
I'll wait for the book to come out. More up close,& personal, less noise, & visual jumble.
im going to scream im only 17 minutes in
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