lol, Samesies... throwing this in the pre-sleep mix of audiobooks and misc lectures... a dude on yt did a quality 5 hr summary/explication of "blood Meridian." highly , highly recommended also.
🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵 Professor Michael Sugrue studied with him at Yale and many other fortunate people who were really interested in literature and humanities. Tony Morrison was another one. RIP 🙏 ❤️ Professor Harold Bloom and Professor Michael Sugrue. I still pay for Professor Sugrue's channel. I am grateful for this channel.
Extraordinary, incredible, unrivalled... So much hyperbole. Along with overthetop assertions about Shakespeare thinking that women are superior to men esp in matters of love. From anyone else, these wd be dismissed forthwith but it is a tribute to Prof Bloom's greatness that his personal views can truly masquerade as universal ones. Enchanting video!
Noone with actual experience and understanding of the sexual marketplace and relationships between men and women will delude themselves that women are superior to men in terms of love. Otherwise very rich lectures and a good companion to exploring the plays and world of Shakespeare.
On the subject of Romeo and Juliet: There is much that I do not understand about what we call love. What is the nature of what Romeo and Juliet feel for each other? They are teenagers...hormones raging etc. Can they, in such a sort acquaintance , feel anything more than physical attraction to one another? Can what they feel be called mature Love? Yes, Juliet's words are beautiful expressions of desire and admiration and devotion. But what is she really devoted to? What is the basis of her admiration ? Is it not Romeo's beauty and virility and desire for her? Does she, yet, even Know Romeo well enough to be able to declare her LOVE for him? Isn't there more to love than this?
I found the Wittgenstein quotation at 25 minutes. I don’t hear in it an answer to my question. How can Juliet, a girl of 13 ,feel such a profound and solid love for someone who she has known for so short a time ? Bloom says that she is so mature..but where is the evidence? Words are cheap. An infatuated 13 year old girl can be brought to ecstatic rapturous expressions of praise . “ I will follow him. ..follow him wherever he may go.There isn’t an ocean so deep, a mountain so high it could keep me away .” Little Peggy March. 1963.
@@renzo6490Sounds like you already have insights into "Romeo and Juliet" with your reference to "I Will Follow Him" (English lyrics by Norman Gimbel).
It is exactly this, in my humble opinion (as someone who is just one step above literate when it comes to great literature like this). It is infatuation and romantic love, and the play is Shakespeares exploration of the limitations of this idea or ideology. Romantic love is a young, naive persons love. The only way you can really unite with the loved one is in death.
This is one of the audio courses produced by the Modern Scholar company (TMS for short), I urge you to look for more of their courses on UA-cam, they have some of the best professors. They are also available for purchase if you want something specific that is not available for free.
Excellent upload. I've always thought Bloom makes a good dramatist himself, in that he gets pretty dramatic and a tad hyperbolic about praising the subjects he is passionate about, but with 8 hours to listen to I'm sure he has many good points to make.
C'mon Harold! Hamlet's fatal flaw is that he doubts when he should not. That is crystal clear. Doubting when he should have confidence leads to the slaughter of the last scene.
Hamlet is annoyed by his mother. It’s quite common. It takes 5 acts to straighten things out, but they are settled to everyone’s satisfaction. Maybe not Horacio’s.
It seems a little shallow to me, like which people are nice and which are not. What seems more important is what Stanley Cavell covered in books like "Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare" or "Must We Mean What We Say?," taking them as universal temptations leading to dysfunction.
If you ever considered Romanticism as the apex of Western literature, you could make a good case for the literary "theory" subscribed to by Bloom. You certainly can't be limited by the formalism of "structure" or the somewhat circular abstractions made by "deconstructive" ideas or similar. Bloom's is a dry, and acquired, sort of emotional analysis, by my lights. I understand the term "inwardness" as describing his basic view of literature. That is Hamlet, without a doubt.
One of my dreams is to have devoted my life to being a Shakespeare actor….not for fame or riches as many greats have betrayed to Hollywood….just for the bard…..is there anyone who can understand this !
Bloom states again and again how incredibly intelligent Hamlet is, what exulted state of conciousness and mind he has, but I don't get it. To me he seems more like a essensialised human being and not a genious nor an especially pure and moral holy being. He is bright and intelligent, but the reason why the play and the character resonnates with me is because he is so human. He struggles with being a human being with a genuine beating heart in a cold and brutal world, and he does not seem extraordinary to me. It is precicely his ordinariness, his humanity, that makes him so easy to love for me.
He loves to say 'the greatest moment in ALL of Shakespeare'. . . someone should count the number of times he says this. This 'I know everything' approach wouldn't have gone down so well in a British University. And his small errors of understanding and pronunciation jump out when he is acting so omniscient.
Some of this is disappointing. For example, he claims that Caesar’s lack of concern for his safety when going to the Senate is due to Caesar’s awareness that his death could paradoxically lead to great things - the coming to power of Augustus, his relative, who will inaugurate the rule of emperors bearing his own name Caesar. How would he know that any of this would come about rather than just assume that he will not have this great lineage of emperors bearing his name? Unfortunately Bloom is imposing in an undisciplined way his own hubristic interpretations of Shakespeare’s works.
"Whom" is correct. It's the object of "feel." "Existed" is a participle here. If you were to strip the relative clause of all modifiers, reducing it to subject, predicate, and object, it would read, "whom you feel," which is grammatically proper.
It's just the past tense of exist. The whom mistake is found all over, typically after "police said," the suspect whom police said did the deed. The test corrective is to remove the "police said" or in this case remove the "you all feel:" Thus "people whom somehow existed in nature even though Shakespeare bringeth them into being."
I've been putting this on to sleep to then staying up all night to listen
lol, Samesies... throwing this in the pre-sleep mix of audiobooks and misc lectures... a dude on yt did a quality 5 hr summary/explication of "blood Meridian." highly , highly recommended also.
Same
I'm working cable
Playing this in the background
At every job
Any chance I get
Damn! I wanted to sleep.
Haha. Me too. Lit needs of the universe, unite!!
This is the single greatest thing I've ever found on UA-cam.
A thousand thank yous for this gift. The magnificent Harold Bloom's endless love for Shakespeare is beyond compare.A delight and treasure.
To the illustrious late Professor Bloom, thank you. Magnificent and inspiring presentation.
🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵
Professor Michael Sugrue studied with him at Yale and many other fortunate people who were really interested in literature and humanities.
Tony Morrison was another one.
RIP 🙏 ❤️ Professor Harold Bloom and Professor Michael Sugrue. I still pay for Professor Sugrue's channel.
I am grateful for this channel.
Today I'm a blessed man in finding this & will be ever more.
Thank you professor Bloom.
Extraordinary, incredible, unrivalled... So much hyperbole. Along with overthetop assertions about Shakespeare thinking that women are superior to men esp in matters of love. From anyone else, these wd be dismissed forthwith but it is a tribute to Prof Bloom's greatness that his personal views can truly masquerade as universal ones. Enchanting video!
The worship and hyperbole ruins it. No taste
Noone with actual experience and understanding of the sexual marketplace and relationships between men and women will delude themselves that women are superior to men in terms of love. Otherwise very rich lectures and a good companion to exploring the plays and world of Shakespeare.
@@knivgaffelskjeWomen very much can be. It depends on the woman in question
Omggg thank you SO MUCH for uploading these! What did I do to deserve this feast!?
What did "we" get to deserve this? Greatness never dies.
Thank you sooooooo much for uploading this treasure for all of us to enjoy.
OMG thank you so much for uploading these lectures series
What a resource, thank you for uploading ❤
Wow. Had no idea we had these! Thank you immensely for sharing them!
Magnificent. Thank you, Professor.
These are superb. Thank you.
This video is aaa rather extraordinary set of lectures. That is to say that I enjoy it quite dearly.
Brilliant . Thanks so so much
Thanks for uploading. Sharing with my students 👏
Wonderful insight. So much passion for his work and such sensitivity to literary voice. Thanks for uploading.
What an incredible channel.
Unbelievable! I am forever changed.
i think that he would be happy that we are still listening to him
thanks because without this i wouldn't have understood a lot of things
On the subject of Romeo and Juliet:
There is much that I do not understand about what we call love.
What is the nature of what Romeo and Juliet feel for each other?
They are teenagers...hormones raging etc.
Can they, in such a sort acquaintance , feel anything more than physical attraction to one another?
Can what they feel be called mature Love?
Yes, Juliet's words are beautiful expressions of desire and admiration and devotion.
But what is she really devoted to?
What is the basis of her admiration ?
Is it not Romeo's beauty and virility and desire for her?
Does she, yet, even Know Romeo well enough to be able to declare her LOVE for him?
Isn't there more to love than this?
The professor's reading of the Wittgenstein quote near the beginning of this lecture answers your question.
I found the Wittgenstein quotation at 25 minutes.
I don’t hear in it an answer to my question.
How can Juliet, a girl of 13 ,feel such a profound and solid love for someone who she has known for so short a time ?
Bloom says that she is so mature..but where is the evidence?
Words are cheap.
An infatuated 13 year old girl can be brought to ecstatic rapturous expressions of praise .
“ I will follow him. ..follow him wherever he may go.There isn’t an ocean so deep, a mountain so high it could keep me away .”
Little Peggy March. 1963.
@@renzo6490Sounds like you already have insights into "Romeo and Juliet" with your reference to "I Will Follow Him" (English lyrics by Norman Gimbel).
It is exactly this, in my humble opinion (as someone who is just one step above literate when it comes to great literature like this). It is infatuation and romantic love, and the play is Shakespeares exploration of the limitations of this idea or ideology. Romantic love is a young, naive persons love. The only way you can really unite with the loved one is in death.
Best eight hours on UA-cam
Million thanks- from Tbilisi,Georgia!
Thank you very very much.
Bless you, my dear
To adapt Falstaff, Shakespeare is not just a genius in himself, but the cause of genius in others
Bravo, Professor Harold Bloom. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I would have loved to have seen Paul Roebus play Othello!! Wouldn't that have been divine?
Oh my God!!!! Who is this guy!!!! Best time I’ve spent with someone in years!!!
Check out one of his 100 books, particularly a great place to start is The Western Canon. Amazing mind. Read in 26 languages.
Thank you so much! This is a treasure!
We don't deserve this. It will not be wasted
If it will not be wasted, then we do deserve it! Enjoy!
@@Nero.Was.Also.Pharaoh Fair enough.
💯 CORRECT
Well said
Man does it again! Thank you!
Where do these lectures come from? How were you able to make the audio so clear? In any case, thank you.
This is one of the audio courses produced by the Modern Scholar company (TMS for short), I urge you to look for more of their courses on UA-cam, they have some of the best professors. They are also available for purchase if you want something specific that is not available for free.
Brilliant and profound.
Thank you!
Much is gracias. I will binge. 😘
Thank you so much!
No freaking way. You are the goat
Excellent upload. I've always thought Bloom makes a good dramatist himself, in that he gets pretty dramatic and a tad hyperbolic about praising the subjects he is passionate about, but with 8 hours to listen to I'm sure he has many good points to make.
This is deeply appreciated
This is extraordinarily good. Thank you
The Master Speaks Again! Oh how the dead can never die.
Thank you for uploading this!
thank u so much!
where is this from? Never heard about it!! What an amazing find, thank you very much.
Thank you very very much
Exquisite
Best UA-cam channel, bar none.
Magnificent, extraordinary
-Bloom
"Ask for tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man!" Absolute tragedy strangely intensified with understatement.
Has he discussed "Queen Alexandra And Murry"? Unfortunately it barely saw the light of day as it closed in Egypt.
excelente aporte, una lástima que no esté subtitulado al castellano, felicitaciones !!!
Thank you
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy if I could say how much--Shakespeare
Thanks.
Thank you !
The 'ur-Hamlet' of the old German folk play, of murder (titled 'brudenmord'?
(Ie, 'brother murder')?
Thanks a billion!!!!
Can we get some context?
These are a series of lectures he did for some Audible thing.
@oakus8503
He was on with Brian Lamb and C- Span, Poltics & Prose, before more disasters began in all areas.
Love Harold Bloom
Amazing find. TY
Magnificent
Thankyou ❤
Mil gracias, Babosa más estimado
I love this so much.
Harold Bloom was very clever
My god this this is fantastic !!!!!!
“He mixes his melancholia with his wild, ironic humour” 1:35:05
C'mon Harold! Hamlet's fatal flaw is that he doubts when he should not. That is crystal clear. Doubting when he should have confidence leads to the slaughter of the last scene.
Or that he doubts not of himself. Much more of a "fatality".
He is in fact supremely confident in his convictions.
hey chief, pretty sure Harold won't be responding any time soon...
Hamlet is annoyed by his mother. It’s quite common. It takes 5 acts to straighten things out, but they are settled to everyone’s satisfaction. Maybe not Horacio’s.
banger lovely tysm
Unbelievable. Thanks
I would have loved to have seen Paul Roebus play "Othello." Would not that have been divine?
Paul Robeson???
It seems a little shallow to me, like which people are nice and which are not. What seems more important is what Stanley Cavell covered in books like "Disowning Knowledge in Seven Plays of Shakespeare" or "Must We Mean What We Say?," taking them as universal temptations leading to dysfunction.
Thanks 👍🏽
yes..looed four decades for something like this...
Well done
Thank you.
It's like 2 parts mindless worship 1 part substantial analysis
what year is this from - why such different voice?
Does Hamlet break the 4th wall?
dude youre an archeologist...
??
Lol
No, u r
The motherlode!!!!
Ihope the lord never deprive us of you sir and the wonderfull author thang god for technology.
If you ever considered Romanticism as the apex of Western literature, you could make a good case for the literary "theory" subscribed to by Bloom.
You certainly can't be limited by the formalism of "structure" or the somewhat circular abstractions made by "deconstructive" ideas or similar.
Bloom's is a dry, and acquired, sort of emotional analysis, by my lights.
I understand the term "inwardness" as describing his basic view of literature.
That is Hamlet, without a doubt.
Oh, I thought it was Alastair Sim!
One of my dreams is to have devoted my life to being a Shakespeare actor….not for fame or riches as many greats have betrayed to Hollywood….just for the bard…..is there anyone who can understand this !
It's always sad to see one play the servant to the superlative. It reeks of the desperation to grasp the ineffable.
When someone passes me the aux chord
thanks :)
Bloom states again and again how incredibly intelligent Hamlet is, what exulted state of conciousness and mind he has, but I don't get it. To me he seems more like a essensialised human being and not a genious nor an especially pure and moral holy being. He is bright and intelligent, but the reason why the play and the character resonnates with me is because he is so human. He struggles with being a human being with a genuine beating heart in a cold and brutal world, and he does not seem extraordinary to me. It is precicely his ordinariness, his humanity, that makes him so easy to love for me.
😊i like his comments but I think the quotes should be read by a Shakespearean actor.
He loves to say 'the greatest moment in ALL of Shakespeare'. . . someone should count the number of times he says this. This 'I know everything' approach wouldn't have gone down so well in a British University. And his small errors of understanding and pronunciation jump out when he is acting so omniscient.
Some of this is disappointing. For example, he claims that Caesar’s lack of concern for his safety when going to the Senate is due to Caesar’s awareness that his death could paradoxically lead to great things - the coming to power of Augustus, his relative, who will inaugurate the rule of emperors bearing his own name Caesar.
How would he know that any of this would come about rather than just assume that he will not have this great lineage of emperors bearing his name?
Unfortunately Bloom is imposing in an undisciplined way his own hubristic interpretations of Shakespeare’s works.
Blah blah blah.
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did this guy run over y'alls cat or something? why the haterade?
THANKS THANKS THANKS 😶😶😶
Lets gooooooo
PS i thing that William Shakespear did find that elusive woman the perfict the British people his audience.
i stopped here 5:01:08
Thanks for the info
Thank you for sharing that, truly
That's nice.
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2:41:00
McKellen is English
0:0:40 "People whom you all feel somehow existed in nature even though Shakespeare bringeth them into being" who, not whom, subject of "existed"
"Whom" is correct. It's the object of "feel." "Existed" is a participle here. If you were to strip the relative clause of all modifiers, reducing it to subject, predicate, and object, it would read, "whom you feel," which is grammatically proper.
It's just the past tense of exist. The whom mistake is found all over, typically after "police said," the suspect whom police said did the deed. The test corrective is to remove the "police said" or in this case remove the "you all feel:" Thus "people whom somehow existed in nature even though Shakespeare bringeth them into being."
@@yclept9 May I ask what grammatical role that the clauses "you all feel," and "police said," are filling in each case?
who police said did the deed = police said that he did the deed, just a way to pack it into a relative clause