Department of English University of Toronto

Пікірлер

@Jay-z2x Ай бұрын

The first 11 minutes is the Professor’s background I guess

@MegaLotusEater Ай бұрын

Why does the audience keep laughing, even when he hasn't made a joke?

@lynx_5730 5 ай бұрын

bouta save my diploma

@weweresubtle 5 ай бұрын

so happy to have found this

@happygucci5094 8 ай бұрын

Watching this during the Genocide of the Palestinian people, Haiti,Congo,Syria,Yemen,ecological collapse and a time of such moral turpitude that my soul shudders… I have seen heroes become villains,when words and truth seem to have lost its meaning and there is only the abyss… only the abyss. 🥹🙏🏽✊🏽🇵🇸

@BarryBlackNE 9 ай бұрын

I just come back, year after year, and watch this on repeat. Sensational.

@JasonLiske 9 ай бұрын

I'm here for an ode from Manchester orchestra's headman Andy. I can see the connection through soulful paths and intention. Thanks for sharing this 'thread' as JKS would say...

@jacquesaubin4454 Жыл бұрын

He is a moralist prick . Yawn

@SorbetCitron17 Жыл бұрын

Milton in Love? Try Supernatural.

@Irina_kK20184 Жыл бұрын

Amazing! What a clear interpretation of " A Complicated Kindness" which was a complicated novel for me and now due to Nick Mount I can clarified some questions in my mind about this story.

@4Mr.Crowley2 Жыл бұрын

As a professor myself (a medievalist) I greatly appreciated this lecture and Prof. Stevens’ ability to make an excellent argument illuminating one of the western canon’s greatest works with such clarity and brilliance. He doesn’t lose himself in jargon, and he makes his points so clearly and carefully. Thank you!!

@SorbetCitron17 Жыл бұрын

A medievalist's Aleister Crowley, there's a pun somewhere about that.

@2msvalkyrie529 Жыл бұрын

The usual lecturer's lame jokes . Cringeworthy. We're not here for a laugh Professor ...we're here to be intellectually challenged .!

@Christianna73 Жыл бұрын

This recovering mennonite thinks you're a rawk star! Thank-you xo

@verakkandy Жыл бұрын

I am so honoured to have been his student. He's one of the best professors I've had at the University of Toronto.

@jackcooper3307 Жыл бұрын

Agree with Hazlitt about the lack of bodily deformity

@noahatlas5240 Жыл бұрын

Feeling like I need to eat drywall over this

@barbarajohnson1442 2 жыл бұрын

A now I'm going to attempt Paradise Lost!!!

@jackcooper3307 Жыл бұрын

It’s the best thing ever

@lavieenrose0323 2 жыл бұрын

In another way, we are satans ourselves, at least some part of us belong to satan, but we love God, and we despise Satan, just like true Christians despise ourselves. Milton examed and confessed himself through the character of satan.

@adlemur 2 жыл бұрын

The most perturbed thing is watch a fat old and bald guy analyzing what is in the mind of one adolescent girl in other time in another part of the world. So what the fuk

@MU73KI 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a Weakerthans fan, and have ALWAYS felt that they needed to be studied. The Lyricism is unlike anything today, that is except for The Mountain Goats. When the quote from Darnielle was read, I got goosebumps knowing that they know each other.

@frankhernandez1995 2 жыл бұрын

Devilishly well crafted video, I love Milton and the the comments produced many additional insights and interpretations, is you will, “Revelations”.

@theartofhavoc5467 2 жыл бұрын

John K. Samson 🥰

@phillipstroll7385 2 жыл бұрын

Cracks me up that most people's religious beliefs come from poems (the divine comedy & paradise lost) not the Bible. Because the Bible states all evil is created by God (Isiah 45:7). Satan is but the punisher of evil. Not evil itself. The very moment one makes Satan evil they create polytheism.

@True_Christian Жыл бұрын

Your quotation of Isaiah 45:7 is taking the word "evil" out of context. He is talking about calamity there, *not* something that is morally wrong done by God, as you are *incorrectly* implying.

@phillipstroll7385 Жыл бұрын

@@True_Christian that isn't true at all. The Hebrew words for calamity and evil are completely different. Hebrews 11 plainly states no man has authority to interpret God's word. God said what he meant and meant what he said. God said evil and he meant what he said. You do not have authority to pretend otherwise to justify your own physical beliefs. You're pretending there are two Gods. One of Good and one of evil. That's Dualism and completely against God's word and genesis. Let us not forget the tree of Life, Good and EVIL. All 3 together.

@jeff7764 2 жыл бұрын

Anchorless and Showdown (GEP) are my favorite John K Samson songs.

@kydetoad 2 жыл бұрын

Reading her works...it evokes and provokes. And for that I am truly grateful .Evocative emotionally...especially in the voicing and witnessing of the destructiveness of fundamentalism. Provoked to embrace greater authenticity and away from mediocrity. To do so in good company at the personal, the familial and societal level (and yes, not like Holden Caulfield ).

@kopfkinooo 3 жыл бұрын

oh man he sounded so much like Kermit when he said "crap" :)

@antoinedoinel153 3 жыл бұрын

Pseudo profound non sequiturs about ‘Aushwitz” are truly embarrassing in lectures. This is such a lame cliche that I can’t take the person’s ideas on literature seriously.

@spiritualpolitics8205 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant.

@timothycherrmann 3 жыл бұрын

I just invited him to my wedding.

@invoiceverse5363 3 жыл бұрын

Really interesting

@cristinam8600 3 жыл бұрын

This was absolutely wonderful.

@lohkoonhoong6957 3 жыл бұрын

Is the Satan in PL the same Satan in PR?

@josiahcmiller 2 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@Blatz00 3 жыл бұрын

OMG...I've been misreading "virtute" as "virtue" for years

@boblastname1061 3 жыл бұрын

Wow i just noticed i was incorrect too! It's so interesting how brains can do that...

@jamessherrett5193 11 ай бұрын

Now do a search for the city of winnipeg's motto and you'll see its origin!

@janethayes5941 3 жыл бұрын

Wish every teacher was as great as NM.💗

@ghulambari1999 3 жыл бұрын

This is the best on Milton's satan i've ever gone through

@kaarina212 3 жыл бұрын

ageed

@SorbetCitron17 Жыл бұрын

I read OF instead of ON, it made me laugh.

@ryansteel 3 жыл бұрын

This moderator is so cringy.

@ChristBurner 4 жыл бұрын

..so... can i get a John K Samson/The Weakerthans - Conor Oberst/Bright Eyes 2021 tour???

@ArtandAlchemy 4 жыл бұрын

How can the average person even hope to understand how to read this in the old language it is written in?

@DavideMazzetti 3 жыл бұрын

What 'old' language? It was written in English.

@jackbunn 3 жыл бұрын

@@DavideMazzetti No need to be pretentious, any literature from the 1600s is going to be at least a little inaccessible.

@josiahcmiller 2 жыл бұрын

@@jackbunn Sometimes you have to work for something, in order to understand it.

@Jupa 2 жыл бұрын

With all due respect being a considerable book worm I was able to read Middle English Canterbury Tales at the age of 15-16 without much trouble. I’d struggle now. But it takes training.

@jackcooper3307 Жыл бұрын

It’s written in Early Modern English, just as easy to follow as Shakespeare in part

@ole8931 4 жыл бұрын

Among the best musical storytellers

@gf1478 4 жыл бұрын

I hope you do a vanity Google and find this. Fourth year, Queens, 1989, you introduced me to Theory. Blew. My. Mind. You'd cuss and get so worked up every lecture at some stage you'd take your sweater off and then take it to another level. You'd never give me an A because I put jokes in my footnotes. I thought that was fair. You made time for undergrads and took us to new places. Thank you.

@JAC82 4 жыл бұрын

This is such a heart-warming comment.

@kaarina212 3 жыл бұрын

Your comment made me want to listen and so glad I did.

@4Mr.Crowley2 Жыл бұрын

As a professor myself I can tell you that this comment would be very touching to hear - it’s a lovely post!

@gf1478 Жыл бұрын

@@4Mr.Crowley2 Thank you for the kind words. I'm in the knowledge racket myself... well, I was a while ago. I don't quite know what it is now. Take care and be well !