W. B. Yeats documentary

[@Kel_Rod]

I live in the village where Yeats lived as a teenager and where Maud his lover also lived, he wrote lots of poems about her. There is a plaque in front of his house. The name of the village is Howth, where I am a tour Guide.

[@robertlevine2827]

And the first sentence of "Finnegans Wake"--which is a continuation of its last sentence--mentions "Howth Castle and Environs."

[@geraldinehughes4490]

Very touching, the moving music and touching photography and your charming accent adds to the glow that remains William Butler Yeats. Thank you very much, Geraldine

[@art.and.lit.matters]

I've adored Yeats' poetry for forty years. You do such a lovely job with this. Balanced, deeply insightful and your reading voice is utterly mesmerizing. Thank you.

[@evaehrenkranc3213]

😊😊 פרק

[@newgabe09]

thank you so much for your excellent documentaries.

[@DeclanOGorman-c2w]

my father was irish from co.laois, on his gravestone are the words. and peace comes dropping slow. lovely

[@kskssxoxskskss2189]

Henry VIII did not leave the Roman Church to divorce Anne Boleyn. The woman he divorced was Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne Boleyn -- whom he subsequently beheaded.

[@AuthorDocumentaries]

Yes, good catch

[@tvs9978]

I just got to that part and was about to post the same comment.

[@Moonbeam1902]

Exactly. I got a little confused there for a moment. Was about to post the comment. Thanks

[@Ghastlyedits3]

@@AuthorDocumentarieshow casual this reply is. At least be apologetic for the huge mistake that many might get mislead with.

[@maricacullingham4785]

Correct!

[@traciebecker6669]

I enjoyed this very much. The Isle of Innisfree has been my favorite poem for many years.

[@brianSalem541]

One of mine too! And his poem When You Are Old.

[@michellerhodes9910]

Beautifully done. I have always admired his work and this was an excellent and balanced appraisal of his times.

[@veritasuno3304]

agree

[@billivory2754]

Wonderful, Malcom. . It provides a broad l overview which makes understanding this literary genius ever more possible. Thank you.

[@steveosullivan5262]

I was working in a butcher shop just outside of Buffalo NY. My employer and his son were Polish immigrants. My parents came from Ireland. Thinking me arrogant, Vic Jr reeled off many accomplishments of the Polish people. What did the Irish ever do...he asked. I was 17 and had no ready answer. I went home asked me dad, he said we were great talkers...My mother grabbed a book of poems by Yeats and asked me to read them. I was hooked. Vic Jr, he had a point, So I asked him to name all the Polish Presidents of the US...I told him the Irish were dreamers. All the butchers in the shop were Polish Jews that survived the second world war. Strange place Buffalo.

[@AlanO-m9b]

😂

[@jangeitz6590]

Totally superb !!!! Thank you so much.......from Brisbane Australia

[@valmarsiglia]

There's an anecdote I heard once recounted by O'Casey in an interview. As his play was being hooted down by the outraged audience, Yeats stood up and bellowed "This is Mr. O'Casey's apotheosis!" which shut everyone up. Though certainly grateful, O'Casey said he had to look up "apotheosis" later at home.

[@sleethmitchell]

oh, excellent!

[@windexislife]

Thanks for sharing :)

[@boneytony5041]

Just looked it up.

[@veritasuno3304]

the apotheosis of someone > the act of making someone into a god:

[@valmarsiglia]

@@veritasuno3304 It can also mean the highest point of a person's development or success, ie "The Ninth Symphony represents Beethoven's apotheosis as a composer."

[@QHarefield]

Very interesting, and beautifully narrated. Thank you.

[@pinit9186]

Thank you so well told and filmed.

[@sonjawhite5815]

Such an insight into the myth of modern ireland -Thanks once again!

[@Shafiqur-n4y]

W.B.Yeats' poetic style is fantastic.

[@mjw12345]

His prose eg, A Vision also beautiful.

[@cheri238]

Yeats, how I love him. 🙏❤️🌍🌎🌏🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵✨️💫✨️

[@cheri238]

Thank you for this documentary. YEATS POETRY NEVER WILL BE FORGOTTEN BY ME.

[@Thomas_Stearns_Eliot]

My favorite poet ever

[@notathaiguy]

Mine too, went to Yeats festival in Sligo Ireland, 6 years ago. Wonderful!

[@willamsandell1082]

So interesting, and so well done

[@caryoulwhitty]

"it is highly unlikely that the gifted family he came from could be anything else but (protestant)". What a remark..

[@bucko1001]

That was not the only silly or opinionated remark made about Irish people or Irish affairs in this presentation

[@ronanhughes8506]

I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and say it was just bad phrasing.

[@madhurabali1810]

I really enjoy your videos although it would be really nice and helpful if you could kindly add subtitles for better understanding.

[@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace]

Really beautiful.

[@bucko1001]

I agree with the comments pointing out factual mistakes & mispronunciations of names & places & gratuitous unpleasant remarks about Ireland & the Irish. The most remarkable comment was near the end when the claim is made that Irish people weren’t capable of grasping the significance of Yeats or understanding him properly. I have to say it is the author of the script who is ignorant with respect to Ireland & the standard of education & intelligence of Irish people.

[@31Alden]

Where peace comes dropping slow …. ☘️❤️

[@jai6708]

i adored Yeats' poetry it was really beautiful and unique i love my twizzy king

[@jimmaccormaic6689]

It isn't HOWth. It's HOEth. The native language of Ireland is Irish, not Gaelic. It's USH-een, not OY-shin. It's BOLya's Strand, not BAYL's.

[@queenoflammersland8562]

Lots of smug anti Ireland and anticatholic asides too.

[@LK_Ireland]

They should’ve got an Irishman to narrate this.

[@tema_fiammov]

thank you, yeat Is my favorite music artist rn Tonka goat Mr Noah Smith

[@christophermorgan3261]

Yeats didn't care for the direction that T.S. Eliot was taking poetry.

[@Goodkidjr43]

That is because Eliot was revealing the "wasteland" of the logical conclusions of Yeats' religious philosophy. Yeats philosophy resulted in Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot...

[@johnmartin2813]

No mention of Ezra Pound?

[@1thingiscertain304]

Watched the first 3 minutes - a few corrections - 1. the Irish language is Gaelic, not Gallic; 2. their is no Church of England in Ireland - there is the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland (protestant); 3. it is not that Catholics were not admitted to Trinity (where I went to college), but that the Catholic Church forbade Catholics to go there.

[@Aguilatriste46]

Very, very interesting

[@nagendraprasadmaurya6854]

Hi everyone. I aspire to win Nobel Prize in Literature like Yeats. How can I get that. Please suggest me 😊🌹.

[@carolwilliams9a0]

Hello 👋

[@richardshiggins704]

An excellent biographical review . A younger Daniel D lewis would have been ideally casted as Yeats in a biopic . PS : alas poor A Boleyn was not accorded the luxury of a divorce .

[@pamelaforde3264]

Howth is pronounced to rhyme with both.

[@emmabovary9374]

What inaccuracy! Henry VIII never wanted to divorce Anne Boleyn- he wanted to marry her (and beheaded her later). He severed the ties with Rome when the pope refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

[@djpokeeffe8019]

Gallic? Poetess? Anne Boleyn? Mild howlers, for me. Also, rather binary to call Yeats a Protestant (as if only that or RC) when he held no Christian beliefs at all, but rather animatedly, anti-Christian ones.

[@Goodkidjr43]

And as a result, the "wasteland" warned of by Eliot, resulted in Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot...

[@bealreadyhappy]

How did he make his money? Did he have a regular income?

[@genevievedolan1288]

Willie?

[@MSS-g7f]

Childhood name - and not uncommon at the time. EG William Redmond, brother of Nationalist leader was always known as Willie. Term of affection rather than the male appendage!!!

[@alexandermashin5515]

Henry VIII broke away from Roman Chirch because he wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon, not Anne Boleyn.

[@JudeNance]

I always wondered what he looked like.

[@michaelcassidy1864]

It would have been very helpful if the narrator had taken the time to learn the correct pronunciation of Irish places.

[@christinamarti4441]

💚🍀

[@Ukie88]

The Protestant ascendancy was strictly enforced.

[@theresebarry14]

In the first 4 minutes alone this narrator hails protestants/English as superior to Catholics/Irish. This is a distorted representation of the culture and foundation that inspired and made Yeats, by a clearly biased Englishman trying to 'claim' the writer. He implies repetitively that Yeats 'was so brilliant, he couldn't be Irish.'

[@BrendaMurphy-z6r]

IS HE BEING CONDECENDING?

[@mbb2404]

2:40 it was a language that was forced upon the people

[@Jaoh0w]

I LOVE YEAT

[@tema_fiammov]

WAZZUP TWIZZ

[@patrickhalloran5985]

The writer of this narrative did not do his research very well. As one commentator has remarked , Henry V111 did not break with the Catholic Church so he could divorce Anne Boleyn - and by 1966 Ireland had not been a Free State for more than 50 years ; also England pulled out of Ireland after the War Of Independence, not after the Irish Civil War. A poor documentary.

[@robgau2501]

No. It's not the nature of religions to think they are right and everyone else is wrong, it's the nature of Abrahamic religions to believe that. Most religions are fairly tolerant, especially pagan ones.

[@rstokes9630]

😢

[@ringpop6177]

♥️ 😊

[@AlastairDuncan-cw6lf]

howth of pronounced like hope not how

[@Aguilatriste46]

Henry the 8th wanted to divorce Catherine that is when he separated from the Catholic Church, he had Anne Boleyn beheaded

[@michaeldillon3113]

Yes he had Anne beheaded for essentially the same reason he divorced Catherine of Aragon - their inability to produce a male heir .

[@BrendaMurphy-z6r]

And no way bohemian, why not !

[@alisonarmstrong8421]

Mis-pronounced HOWTH = Ho+th. Oisin = U + sheen. On Baaile's Strand = Bwa + lya. The Great Vowel shift did not reach the Irish Language! = o/w Gay + lick (Gaelic). British actors and scholars tend to these gross mistakes. Oisin = OO + sheen. Alas

[@michaeltruman3218]

You attempt to sound learned but you mispronounce every Irish location. I’m sure Yates would turn in his grave to listen to you. The British do their best but fail so terribly at saying Irish names and places. It’s an insult. Please do not discuss what you cannot say.

[@SharonMacDonald-w3i]

King Hebert was mesrly a king he changed his beliefs to suit his needs a complete narcissist

[@alisonarmstrong8421]

Henry 8th wanted to divorce Katherine his first (Catholic) wife in order to marry Anne Bolyn.

[@Lightsomewise]

Read the Quran before it’s late