I'm losing count 52 minutes in; how many suicide attempts so far?

Threnody as sung by Frida Lyngstad.

George S Kaufman afraid of human contact? Not according to Mary Astor’s diary.

I was told on DP’s gravestone it says” If you can read this , you are too close”

SUPERB. Worth a listen - and more. Engrossing.

Paul, thanks for creating this and helping share Dottie with the world.

How about the poet feels, for a change, the responsibility to tell his daughter he is her biological father? Instead of misleading the only child he ever fathered yet wished she was aborted. How about the, the poet who feels so much, feels the remorse for his dismal paternal failure. No? Oh well, the poet feels only what pleases him, no surprise. I got his book, Complete Poems for Christmas.

All the intellectual, humor, and satire in the world in a 4'11" 90 lbs woman.

Thank you so much! You captured DP beautifully and clearly did a LOT of research. I’m gonna check out your channel now-and hope you added other Algonquin Round Table participants! Again, thanks, this is excellent in every way.

I can't believe I watched the whole thing. I think I had three hangovers but I don't remember the Scotch taste.

The photo of the woman’s back was taken by Man Ray and is of Kiki the model not of Nancy Cunard.

What a great idea! Visiting literary landmarks. And making videos of your visits while on site.

Woh, woh, woh... Stop right there... Rothschild. Oh, no!!!! -"She's not that kind of Rothschild." Sure. Poor Dorothy.... growing up in those shacks, wearing rags, dirt under her nails, and rundown school she went to. -It's simply AMAZING a girl like that made it into Jewish Hollywood. Not to mention her easy acquisition into a job at Vogue, and her marriage to a well to do family as well. Wealthy families generally don't let just anybody into their pedigree who isn't listed in the book of Who's Who, or the Social Registry.

The two great insults to Oscar Wilde were: 1.) Imprisoning him for being gay. 2.) Burying him under that thing.

Not sure why the background music is said to be distracting....it’s very subtle and adds to the narration. Thanks for an interesting bio.

I had never heard of Pierre Loti before today. Never, anywhere, not even in passing, as far as I can recall.

I didn't have time yesterday to make the tour. I was chasing the sun and thought the tour would be longer. I've heard of them all, but have read just a few. Apollinaire, Wilde, Stein. I should have studied French. I was advised to, but didn't.

I think we really underestimate just how REAL these people were, it’s one thing imagining them based on information we have access to from things documentaries or their written works but it’s another to see something physical of them like their graves. It makes them real to you in a way you couldn’t have felt before, this level of proximity is very fascinating.

Ah, yes. The Immortals. The famous Dead. "Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones. Now hear the word of the Lord." Edit: "Dem Bones," aka "Dry Bones," was written in the Nineteen Twenties and has a long and interesting history in popular culture, appearing everywhere from "The Munsters," the old TV show, to "The Ruling Class," the excellent movie from the early Seventies. Its roots are in the Bible. The version I heard when I was very young was recorded by the Delta Rhythm Boys. 😊😮

You are living the dream. It looks like a beautiful day over there. Back here in southeastern New England, we have had a long stretch of ideal autumn weather. 🍂 🥮 🎑 🍁 🎃 🍂

May I know what is smell of this place 🤔

Back here in "the good ol' U.S. of A," Gershwin's "An American in Paris" is playing on the classical music station out of Boston, WCRB. Have a great, safe trip, you lucky dawg! 😊

You’re loving my dream in France aghhh!!

Narration is not too bad, although, I'd prefer you didn't try to use another voice for Nancy, it doesn't sound authentic and it's annoying, best to speak in your own voice. And agree, the background music is somewhat distracting.

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EXCELLENT !!! FROM, U.K. (2024).

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De ball sac hehehehheheheh

This looks very interesting. Unfortunately, I cannot watch it because I'm so distracted by the music in the background.

It's amazing what all those artists saw in her---she was a 'starchy old blue-stocking'---her licentiousness must have been very appealing during the 'straight-llaced' post-Victorian era of the 1920's.!....A well researched and documented account of everyone and anyone that was around during that hectic and traumatic time in the litarary world.

Coleridge

Fascinating parade of familiar and obscure images, detailing for us the lives of Anton Chekhov, his family, lovers, and friends-many of whom became models for his characters.

Good doc for a historical timeline and Who's Who but laughably mawkish regarding the poetry itself. KUBLA KHAN a poem about "the creative process"? Yawn. It is a wildly perverse, autoerotic vision of the poet as black magic virus to society (the area where he composed it was once a leper colony), who must work their own good magic against him. As if in a horror movie they must not look at the light coming from him as he soars into a trance. It is a re-writing of his youthful pixie cave poem where the pixies crown him with laurels. Coleridge completes Wordsworth the same way Heath Ledger's reptilian lip-smacking Joker tells Batman "You complete me" in THE DARK KNIGHT. Wordsworth lectured us to look at Nature as "pretty" even as she wiped out tens of thousands in England from smallpox (leading to the smallpox inoculation program that killed Coleridge's son). Coleridge, deep in his opium addiction (the real honey-dew and milk of Paradise on which he feeds, an over-the-counter dose fittingly known as The Black Drop), gives us the grisly truth about Mother Nature. She is the panting, orgasmic "savage" chasm underneath the artifice and skull of the Pleasure Dome with its "ceaseless turmoil seething." She is the womb-tomb Life-In-Death apparition in RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER that Coleridge embarrassingly tries to exorcise with his tagged on Christian ending. Nature finds him in the end though with CHRISTABEL as lesbian vampire who stalks the night. It's not for nothing Wordsworth wanted it excluded from the 1800 edition of LYRICAL BALLADS. Lesbian vampires and daffodils don't mix. At his drugged-out, un-self-censored, dark, visionary best, Coleridge was like the sacred primitive shamans Sir James Frazer said were "charged just as a Leyden jar is charged with electricity," a condition about which he warned in THE GOLDEN BOUGH: "The primitive mind seems to conceive of holiness as a sort of dangerous virus, which a prudent man will shun as far as possible, and of which, if he should chance to be infected by it, he will carefully disinfect himself by some sort of ceremonial purification." Coleridge disinfected himself with sobriety, Christianity, and late-life respectability. But the genie was out of the bottle. The dark wine of his early Gothic poetry went on to demonize the next generation of Romantic poets who lived fast and died young and beyond them, the Decadent Movement from the Pre-Raphaelites through to Swinburne. Obviously he was an enormous influence on Edgar Allan Poe. The documentary makes LYRICAL BALLADS out to be some protest against the Industrial Revolution, which it is not. Wordsworth had a problem with civilization PERIOD (except of course, when he availed himself of its luxuries, which was often), and although he would write two later poems lamenting the building of railway and waterway (one grudgingly accepting, the other simply his growling that a proposed rail line would alter his pretty country view), he had no problem traveling by steamboat or train. In the second edition's preface he singles out city life in general as impediment to his Rousseauist rural nature worship, although it should be noted this nature worship did not include backbreaking farm labor. Wordsworth, like so many a limousine liberal, was 'to the manor born' so to speak. His father was a lawyer to the nobility and Wordsworth grew up in a mansion, was educated in an upper-class school, lived in a series of estates never wanting for money, and toured the Continent throughout his life. For perspective, when our Nature Poet was 32 he inherited about the equivalent today of well over half-a-million dollars.

One does not "prolong the inevitable " it is postponed! And her father didn't "remarry a retired teacher" he remarried to etc. Please use correct words and sentence construction to give accurate information

Interesting writer-he really treated his wife badly-I don't know if I blame her family for thinking this guy was after her money.

Lillian Hellman is largely discredited now, for many reasons - but she did write a moving and insightful chapter on her friendship with Dorothy Parker in one of her memoirs. One wildly inappropriate and jaw droppingly funny remark of Parker comes when Hellman returns home unimpressed from an event where she met Helen Keller.....

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At some point, I doubted if this is parody or real. Love the humor. It must have been fun to be at the table with eccentric characters around you.

Wait a minute--- when Dorothy became pregnant during an affair with Charlie MacArthur, "she opted for an abortion." We need to hear more about that, since it had to have been risky, dangerous, and illegal. 32:15

see dorothy.s poems

What a sad and miserable person. I do not understand the reason she needs to be remembered. I feel very sorry for her😢

There is a bar/ motel at a place called Tutukaka in Northern New Zealand. There you will see photo's of Mr. Gray behind the bar in New Zealand fishing for Marlin. Him and Mr. Ernest Hemmingway would come to NZ to go after the Marlin. I saw these photo's myself while having a brew after diving the Poor Knights. A dive site about a few miles out. A wonderful place to visit if you get the chance. Great fishing up there, pods of dolphins swim by, and even might see penguins swimming by aswel. The Red Snappers are so good, and cray fish are abundant. ❤

Thank you for a wonderful documentary. I can never decide whether Wordsworth or Coleridge was the greater poet. This made me lean towards Coleridge ❤

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Zane Grey has created quite a few iconic characters. My most admired being Brazos Keene. "Twin Sombreros" is one of my favorites by him.

Miss Cythintha Williams born British month of Mothers day May, star sign pieces, blonde beauty born bouncy new born bonnie a only child to married male female husband and wife in the year 1978; Miss Dorothy Dandridge and her mixed race human being cultural identity on youtube this year on this website ~ Art Secondary School Department Head: Ms Parker#

He was quite attractive and his look, the Posted Child for a Writer/Author

These Bio-Documentaries are absolutely excellent. I could easily binge listen. Really appreciate the works.

Billie Burke was a Beautiful Woman.

I've come to believe that balanced minded individuals must not be successful writers ... Wonder why this was never mentioned during my college years, I majored in Journalism and Sociology...?