The Romantic Poets documentary

[@PreyingWolf1]

I think one of the gifts Britain has given the world is a wealth of poetry and theater ... Not only does it gives us great pleasure but also helps us to grow as human beings, helps us to grow into our adult potentials. Thank you.

[@mckavitt13]

Their painters & composers, singers& conductors are no slouches either.

[@Ragesh.Szr86]

Britain never allowed to enrich others

[@mckavitt13]

@@Ragesh.Szr86 Sorry, but you're talking about my country, the US, which buys people, lowers their talent & their IQ, esp the Brits. If they stay, that robs their countries of origin of that talent & the country of its inspiration.

[@wiseonwords]

@@Ragesh.Szr86 - Your foolish comment doesn't make sense!

[@Ragesh.Szr86]

@@wiseonwords ..Your arrogance never end ....that is reflects in this comment

[@shabirmagami146]

it is a shame that one of the greatest 'romantic' geniuses of English Literature William Blake hasn't been mentioned .....it is ironical that some of his paintings have been used in the documentary ….. Blake is undoubtedly the poet laureate of the romantic movement...

[@aych-rn]

Did you even watch the video 😅

[@zainmorgan5241]

Even he is the forerunner of the age.

[@fincentwillighagen8297]

William Blake was a very individualistic poet, so he detested the idea of being grouped among the other Romantics. His poems also do not fully correspond with the Romantics in a thematic sense. His groupings INNOCENCE/ EXPERIENCE are a subtle dismissal of mere reliance on imagination and delirious (day-) dreaming (Coleridge - Kubla Khan).

[@tchaivorakfauresohnsieg9532]

​@@NicholaiHel563both are equally valid terms

[@jjrecon3024]

Absolutely, Thank You for commenting ✨🙌 still suppressed, badge of honor.

[@swarnashlokechakraborty5392]

Romantic literature, especially poetry, appeals me in an overwhelming manner. Have been studying the works of these poets , the social and political contexts since my second year at college. Great work. Cheers from India.

[@valdirmeretchaikovsky155]

I just love the romantic poets milton barron kets shelly. Wordworth browning Shakespeare dill Thomas. Culture at last.

[@swarnashlokechakraborty5392]

@@valdirmeretchaikovsky155 would you consider one amongst them?

[@tchaivorakfauresohnsieg9532]

@@valdirmeretchaikovsky155 if you have the slightest respect for these great men, please correct their name its just disrespectful to them

[@valdirmeretchaikovsky155]

Don't know who are but you haven't spelt correctly. I find it insulting. I have been writing poetry since I was four. You area snob. All because I spelt Elizabeth incorrectly, I come from a long lineage if poets writers musician. You problem from a uneducated family.

[@hazelwray4184]

@@valdirmeretchaikovsky155 Milton; Baron Kets; Wordsworth Browning; Shakespeare Dill; Shelly and Thomas Lol. You're sure they all existed in the early 19th Century?

[@walkabout16]

In the age of Romantics, a time divine, Where poets weaved their verses, pure and fine, Amidst nature's grace and love's embrace, They painted scenes with words, a vivid trace. Wordsworth wandered o'er the hills and dales, Nature's beauty, his poetic sails, He wandered lonely as a cloud, entranced, His verse, a dance, in solitude he danced. Coleridge, with Kubla Khan's dreamy flight, In Xanadu, a vision took its height, A fragment born from depths of reverie, Imagination's vast and wondrous sea. Keats, with odes that sang of truth and pain, His Grecian urn, forever to remain, Beauty in fleeting moments, so profound, His words an echo, eternal sound. Byron's heart, a tempest's raging sea, His passion penned in tales of liberty, With Childe Harold, his wanderlust unfurled, He roamed the world, unfathomed by the world. Shelley, the lyricist of sky and fire, His verses soared, igniting hearts' desire, Prometheus unbound, an ode to free, A rebel spirit, wild and fiercely. Their pens ignited, inspired by love's gleam, In the age of Romantics, they did dream, Their words a testament, forever cast, A time of wonder, where poetry amassed. Oh, age of Romantics, your spirit lives, In every heart that dreams and still believes, Your legacy, a gift to time's embrace, Eternal poets, in history's grace.

[@SerWhiskeyfeet]

I wanted to hate on this because I’m a jerk but I like it. Thanks

[@jacquelineharrod6386]

Being obsessively interested in Shelley and Keats from a small child, thank you so much for posting this.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

@Sonja Morrison It's terminal lol. Love Shelley and Keats

[@tonyhoward1735]

Your obsession did little for your grammar

[@richardwestwood8212]

My sister worships Shelley and often tells me that he was the Elvis Presley of his time.

[@goldman77700]

@@richardwestwood8212 Yeah that's about right. Shelly himself idolized William Godwin-writer and philosopher in his own right. Godwin's 3 young daughters(one step-daughter) all fell for Shelly and one of them was of course Mary Shelley. Who he married later on.

[@lervish1966]

@@goldman77700 shelley

[@argentinagalos6205]

I have always loved Wordsworth and the Lake District area . Thank you for adding interesting info to what I knew.

[@MementoMorituri]

I love this. Thank you for uploading. Your channel fills a real need for this content. Kudos.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Thanks, it means a lot to hear that

[@mayurakshighosh2903]

Thank you so much for sharing all these documentaries... I'm so glad I found your channel ♥️

[@HerAeolianHarp]

Thank you for posting this series. Your channel is so rich and varied.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Thank you 🙏

[@peacelovejoy8786]

Delightful! Thank you for taking time to make this contribution. We would be doing our Children a favor exposing them to the romantic poets as soon as possible ❤🤩

[@bettyledesma937]

MAMASTE ; UNCANNY. FROM INDIAN FBF BRINGING UP WORDWORTH' LINES ON THE JOY OF BEEN YOUNG , THIS WONDERFUL VIDEO APPEARS. BLESSINGS .sorry caps old lady here

[@hazelwray4184]

Let the children lose it/Let the children use it/Let all the children boogie.

[@cheri238]

So glad I found this. I AM LOVE WITH GREAT POETS. All poets.💕

[@martingenet2548]

Studying British Romanticism at Otago University in New Zealand. Useful resource, thankyou for uploading it.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

That's amazing. You're welcome!

[@Edo_Marinus]

1:04 “Percy Bysshe Shelley” -- showing a picture of Lord Byron. 1:14 “John Keats” -- showing a picture of Shelley. Lordy, lordy, lordy…

[@markandresen1]

I noticed that. Didn't inspire confidence at the very start.

[@AO-oi5vc]

Not to mention stating that Wordsworth and Coleridge mark the birth of Romantic poetry in England - wholly ignoring the key figure, so sadly marginalized, that is William Blake...

[@tattoofthesun]

@@AO-oi5vc indeed!!!

[@yourmother2739]

@@AO-oi5vc William Blake so vital - so spiritual.

[@LiteratureforLovers]

@@AO-oi5vc Oliver goldsmith. Thomas gray as well

[@debt2055]

Thank you for this wonderful presentation.

[@vanessaedwards6237]

Love is the key for all the trouble that is present for the lack thereof 😢

[@priyankadeybakshi2720]

Love and respect from India. .English literature student I am.

[@samikshakumari9783]

Best documentry ever on romanticism and romantic poets .....how beautifully it is portrayed....truly appreciable.

[@leroux-ianni]

I think this video was made for me, the romantic period is my favorite period of English literature

[@Moon_Queen_8]

Thanks for uploading this video ... ❤🌸 i love to explore the essence of poets and their literary critics

[@jonathangilmore3193]

Extraordinary that William Blake (1757-1827) is not in this documentary on English Romantic poets!

[@101......]

Wasn't he a pre-romantic? Though, yeah, they could had added him along with "Robert Burns" in the introduction. Romantic or not, Blake's personal philosophy will always be an inspiring mark. From "Songs of Innocence" - Through "Songs of Experience" - Towards "Higher Innocence". It has helped me a lot in my struggles, tbh.

[@jonathangilmore3193]

@@101......Only a pre-Romantic if one assigns largely irrelevant dates to the Romantic movement, rather than determine Romanticism based on imaginative literature content: “All deities reside in the human breast.” (Blake)

[@cafepoem189]

Thank you for sharing this profound presentation!🙏

[@HollyFormolo]

Excellent presentation. Going deeper into the rabbit-hole now. Sending much aloha from Iraqi Kurdistan.

[@shyanbiswas8174]

Greek mythology and imagery of kindness and genius...with words.. Romantic Poets

[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

O poets,how much joy you have bequeathed us O how much pains also to us early students of English literature,at a time when poetry only meant examination and nothing but examination in a language,even its prose let alone poetic,was utter alien to me and to those students. How the process of education,supposedly the midwifery of deeper and inner wealth of knowledge,wisdom etc blurred and darkened the landscape,"free yet in chains" of poetics. I have tasted of the beauty of those Romantic poets only when on my own in recollection and tranquility and I say to you dear poets,thanks for the wealth you have bequeathed me us and all. Thanks.

[@JuracyRibeiro]

Sending much Thanks & Love from Brazil.

[@danhanqvist4237]

The pictures are frequently off... Keats was not Byron and Byron wasn't Shelley.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

I winced when I first saw it

[@imgoldenspyder9409]

@@AuthorDocumentaries Me too.

[@J_paints]

This is a very satisfying presentation. Thank you. I studied Keats' poetry intensely for awhile. I learned the source of his "mistake" in is poem, On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer" and the reason for it but have never been able to write it up. I am not an academic so there would be nowhere to send the paper, and who but an academic would be interested?

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

You're welcome. Well, if you ever decide to go for that paper I think a blog would take it. It would probably get more readers too

[@J_paints]

@@AuthorDocumentaries Thank you for the idea. I found the source for "Cortez" instead of "Balboa." Keats made a choice, not a mistake. Perhaps more important was the reason for his choice beyond its beautiful sound, the perfect sound it makes. At the dinner at Hunt's which Keats was so thrilled to attend, Wordsworth was rude to Keats about the poem and may have hurt his feelings. No one there seems to have had an issue about Keats' substitution. Why? Because, I believe, they all knew it its source. Keats's closest friends were sufficiently worried about it they made up a fiction to protect him and stuck by it permanently. This is a good story worth telling. I have checked the Keats Shelley journals over the years waiting for another student to lay it all out. So far no one has. I can't believe it!

[@gauravvishalcrn28]

Watching from India. I'm student of English literature at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

[@lourdesriberaanton4824]

Absolutely wonderful! Thank you 👌❤️

[@heavenontheearth4814]

Thanks sir for this documentary

[@JamesW225]

Poets are everywhere. We are all great poets in our own right. We all use the most available and accurate words to translate our emotional responses and observations.

[@js2749]

Nonsense.If you’re a great poet then where are your great poems? Let’s read them. People give themselves awards they never earned.

[@margaux9244]

Hey, I absolutely love what you're doing with this channel!! Free educational content is something I'll always support. I don't want to be that guy, but just a note, this documentary is not actually the more well known romantics doc from the BBC 2006 as the description states, but rather a more obscure one from 1999. I hope this helps! and I hope you continue uploading!!

[@juliannearlene7244]

Coleridge has always been my favorite.

[@AmitKumar-xx9pl]

Thanks a million for this video please make more 👍🙏

[@sasuioana4253]

I love Romanticism and poetry as well. But I also „accidentally„ discovered another British Romantic poet whose name is John Clare. He wrote beautiful poetry bringing us closer to Nature and its life energy. Do not forget him. It is a pity. Read his verses!

[@arshadsyed6628]

Ah ! The self consumer of his woes

[@syedzawarhussainshah1702]

O new name for me as well Thnx for....

[@sasuioana4253]

@@syedzawarhussainshah1702 Unfortunately few people have ever heard of him. Try and read some poems. You'll love them.

[@syedzawarhussainshah1702]

Thnx for being so

[@tchaivorakfauresohnsieg9532]

I strive for these kind of accidents

[@dorothyjones8937]

Lovely. Thank you so much.

[@sandhyaraj4971]

Very good presentation thank you 😊 👍 🙏

[@caroledrury1411]

Incredibly well put together

[@antoinetteandrawes2751]

Thank u for this very informative, interesting document

[@pijushghosh7389]

Such an endeavour is praiseworthy.

[@hazelwray4184]

Writing poetry, or making a documentary?

[@carolking6355]

That was well done in such a short space of time. I am old now and some details from the past evade me. Was it Shelley whose heart turned to stone on his cremation.?Hope someone can enlighten me.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Yes, you've got it right. www.mentalfloss.com/article/65624/mary-shelleys-favorite-keepsake-her-dead-husbands-heart

[@richoneplanet7561]

OMG 😳 never heard this one. Thank you for the link.

[@margueritespringer3687]

Thank you

[@دكتورحوبةعبدالغني]

Deepest thinks for the explanations and illustrations.

[@nevinsonlotterman5492]

Poetry is the way to express your emotion to others and yourself

[@doreekaplan2589]

Some of us just don't relate to or get poetry.

[@Litpassion24]

Thanks Sir 🙏🙏

[@francistorchio]

One poet who should be added should be Thomas Gray whose poem 'Elegy written in a country churchyard' is a classic of literature.

[@rizwanullah3775]

We are waiting for more videos like this.

[@kierondarcy1213]

The narrator looks like he’s trying to hold up the fireplace…🤣😂

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Haha it might collapse on him at any minute

[@matias-orban]

And I meet you at the cemetry gates Keats and Yeats are on your side But you lose 'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine. 🎶🎶🎵🎸

[@dipendragahamagar2386]

Extraordinary fantastic mind-blowing blowing Chinese drama i cherish every episode of it . All characters played amazing role. Infinite and unconditional love of parents can be found in it. At the beginning all faced family issues but at last they all are happy and settled down that I liked the most but was wish to see ling xio abd li jinjin's marriage. Finally ling xio mother realized her wrong deed and wished for well being for ling xio and lil jinjin

[@mikehourston378]

Just discovered Write Like. Wonderful.

[@irtizakhan3449]

Amazing poets

[@steveculbert4039]

Byron is not Shelley.

[@RainApprehensive]

Haha yeah they really fucked up there

[@hazelwray4184]

... and Shelly isn't Keats.

[@philipswain4122]

@@hazelwray4184 ….and Keats is not John Cooper-Clark

[@PIPEBITE]

Check the iconography in the opening section with the introduction. Byron's and Shelley's pictures are misidentified No portrait of Keats.

[@alecvillavilla9978]

At 1:05 I think it's Byron, not Shelley.

[@valdirmeretchaikovsky155]

Love all the romantic poets culture at last. Just love shelly byron Keats dill Thomas milton browning Elisabeth browning. Scott can't get enough of them.

[@hazelwray4184]

'Scott can't get enough of them' Lol

[@jefffrederick8648]

I can’t help but picture the contrast between the pastoral Lake District giving inspiration to at least 3 of these poets with the current day images of Hamas sympathizers climbing over London’s monuments and memorials.

[@marthaibarra3829]

In this year 2022 it's necessary the poetry for this humanity for this life of man it's necessary remember the poets romantic and poets of all the world and the all time good put literature and poetry in internet and out it of the libraries and bibliotecs

[@fionayongfiona3655]

I find a mistake, the third picture in the beginning is Byron not Shelley.

[@TimGreig]

Apart from the annoying music overpowering the narration that was really wonderful.

[@audreydaleski1067]

For thoughts that lie too deep for tears. For thoughts that do lie too deep for tears.

[@horationelson57]

Post modernity has nothing on these everlasting, Romantic geniuses

[@audreydaleski1067]

William wordsmith, one of the three greats.

[@Priyankakoley23]

In the arms of arts existence can only get intense. Neither blissful nor miserable just intense. For instance a flower blooming in the morning and fading in the evening is as scientific a theory as it can be but to revive life death essence is intense and that's arts. Any human into creative arts your circles is bound get smaller with time because to survive intensity is not the job of the crowd.......

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Very profound

[@Priyankakoley23]

@@AuthorDocumentaries ❤❤

[@maydavalle]

I felt before I thought… that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened:-that serene and blessed mood Spontaneous overflow of Powerful feelings🌸 Poor albatross 😔 Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to the earth, Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth Of noble natures, of the gloomy days, Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. The Byronic hero…💔 Could I embody and unbosom now ⁠That which is most within me,-could I wreak ⁠My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw ⁠Soul-heart-mind-passions-feelings-strong or weak- ⁠All that I would have sought, and all I seek, ⁠Bear, know, feel-and yet breathe-into one word, ⁠And that one word were Lightning, I would speak; ⁠But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. ~Don Juan Hero who is brooding, melancholy sometimes, 𝓗ꪖ𝓷𝒹Ŝ𝔬𝓂𝑒, a great Ĺ❤️𝓥𝓮𝓻, a Quester~ on a quest for knowledge & ɛҳ℘ɛཞıɛŋƈɛ, but also an anti-romantic hero, mocks all those things, gets himself into trouble, perpetually involved in disastrous love affairs…futile..haphazard…full of accidents 💟 💗 When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love-then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

[@rectorgaming490]

thanks for wonderfull class of romantic

[@TheJohnGent1]

Some of the portraits and names are mixed up at the opening.

[@enver_hoxha1908]

When Byron was in the Vilayet of Ioannina in 1809 he fell in love with Albanian history and culture this is why he returned to southern Albania in 1823 to fight alongside Albanians for liberty In Albania we say: The wolf attacks with theeths,the bull attacks with horns while the greek attacks with church 🇦🇱⚔️🇬🇷⛪️☦️

[@paulnugent9937]

For a literary documentary, it would have helped if they could have spelled Leicester correctly for Dr. Julian North!

[@pmajudge]

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

[@kon7533]

46:00 Shelley

[@Rico-Suave_]

Great video, thank you very much , note to self(nts) watched all in it 51:01

[@Tydides64]

1:05 That's Byron.

[@yinoveryang4246]

What happened to William Blake? 😢

[@bewareofpigeons]

Interesting: but the need for background music rather superfluous and distracting, as in a supermarket,

[@SerWhiskeyfeet]

As an American it is my duty to rank them. This is the correct order. 1 Wordsworth 2 Keats 3 Shelley 4 Blake 5 Coleridge 6 Byron

[@Bongwater66]

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....🦇

[@doughill8475]

Has the narrator's hand been glued to the mantle?

[@lucille.101]

what about blake?? working class king & truly breathtaking artist

[@shayanmohammad60]

Is this an old production?

[@adipougangmei5232]

Keats is my favorite ever 😍😍

[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

The whole universe in the gift of """Word"".Thanks.

[@seansmith9129]

Who is the narrator, anyone know?

[@Thomas-fu8vp]

Who might be the narrator here?

[@mesamies123]

No Smith? No Blake? No Clare?

[@djpokeeffe8019]

Lovely shorty film. Portraits of the poets (at the beginning) are misattributed, I’m afraid.

[@ChildeRyan]

The idea that there was a “romantic school” of poets, as though each of these poets wrote of the same themes and in a similar manner with the same intentions is silly and typical of the generalizing scholarly mind that deeply analyzes poetry but can never truly understand and sympathize with a poet’s mind and sensibility. When Wordsworth and Coleridge were writing their verses, in the 1790s, they weren’t inaugurating a new school of poetry, but rather continuing the poetical tradition they had inherited from previous poets and merely adding a new way of approaching subject matter, i.e. common/vulgar life, which can be understood through reading Wordsworth’s preface to Lyrical Ballads. For the most part, they used the same forms and often similar themes as poets before them, such as Cowper and Bowles, among others. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, and Shelley never got together and collaborated on establishing a “romantic school” of poets, but simply wrote verses about whatever it pleased them to write about, in the formal manner English poets had used for centuries. The idea of a “romantic school” is false. It’d be better to say that these poets simply wrote poetry in the late 18th and early 19th century, and not call them “romantics”. See “The Scholars” by W.B. Yeats to understand why someone would call these bards “romantic”!

[@PopGoesTheology]

16:55 agreement with Wordsworth

[@doreekaplan2589]

"Feelings of ordinary " people. Haha. Every person on the planet throughout time has had the exact same feelings.

[@519djw6]

*Although I gave this presentation a "Like," I have five criticisms: 1. The portraits of a couple of these poets are mislabeled at the beginning. 2. They are not presented in the chronological version of the births. (Keats was the youngest, but Shelley is discussed last. 3. The readings of these poems were given an excessively highfalutin tone. 4.Wordsworth sarcastically dismissed one of Keats's greatest works as "a very pretty piece of paganism. 5. Keats did not feel any personal affinity to his two great contemporaries: Byron and Shelley, as can be seen in his letters.*

[@AreeshChaudhary]

Whether the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Bryon is poetry of Philosophy Reform Religion or war

[@littlebrookreader949]

Why surprised that Coleridge’s affair with Sarah was destructive to his marriage? Adultery and unfaithfulness are bound to end in unfulfillment and pain, sure sure as abandonment … all great producers of harm and grief. So sad for him. So sad for them all.

[@davidsandz2186]

To omit and give no mention of Robert Burns, whose world-wide fame is arguably greater than all of the poets highlighted here, is depressingly disappointing if not downright shocking...(but unfortunately hardly surprising, as being Scottish we are used to being marginalised)...It also ignores the fact that some, if not all, of the poets mentioned were great admirers of Burns and held him in the highest esteem.....you should feel shame for ignoring him.

[@lynnhubbard844]

it'd the English poets taught together at uni--the title should have stated it.

[@jackhicks8935]

Luhhhh dis guy!!

[@ericadler9680]

Don Juan was not completed.

[@tattoofthesun]

“….. and Percy Bysshe Shelley” **shows picture of Lord Byron. “John Keats” ..*shows picture of Percy Shelley*

[@bewareofpigeons]

Mr Frederick George: CONtributed??

[@bloothechronosapien4288]

These guys made GCSE English hell

[@adamkwiecien5489]

Thumb down for limiting the subject to EN poets only.

[@adamkwiecien5489]

@@OdeInWessex Then they should change the title to "The English Romantic Poets documentary". Currently the title is misleading/deceiving.

[@lynnhubbard844]

@@adamkwiecien5489 correct...they make mistakes a lot

[@stephenarnold6359]

Shelly's using the metaphor of the seasons as the basis for an optimistic poem about social regeneration is fatally flawed. The point about the cycle of seasons is that each new beginning is suceeded by yet another winter, just as every social revolution is followed by its decay into corruption, tyranny and death. A profoundly immature poet and person.