The Romantics - Liberty (BBC Documentary)

[@DUFMAN123]

"Wordsworth and Coleridge were relocating dignity in the commonplace, restoring grace and significance to ordinary lives, where saints and heroes walked unannounced and unknown." - This is a brilliantly written documentary series. Thank you so much for uploading this for us to enjoy!

[@ToiLeTsCrUb]

You can watch the video in 1.5 speed and still understand what they're saying. (For people who has to watch this for assignments)

[@kellyrussell190]

I'm pretty sure you just saved the life of my entire English class. Thanks!

[@mortyfalch]

hehe

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

Why is it so difficult to watch it at normal speed?

[@nozecone]

People such as, um, "Toiletscrub", lead lives far too busy to allow them the luxury of watching boring stuff about boring stuff at normal speed. Well ... I suppose I shouldn't be sarcastic; for all I know, he's working three jobs, getting five hours of sleep a night, and struggling to get a piece of paper to get himself ahead ....

[@belbras]

1.25 sounds better :)

[@davidstout6051]

Brilliantly done. The interplay between the historical figures and the modern world really brings the concepts to life.

[@muhammedrahman6975]

my dear friend farhaan chohan opened my eyes to this video it really does encapsulates the essence of the romantics influence and the period itself how it echoed through history how the events of the french revolution impacted the generation of the time how these poets used their emotions and put it all in their writing to create such brilliance and class that not only did rebel to the capitalist injustice at the time but allowed readers for centuries forward and in between to relate and be inspired by their work which relates to the injustices in modern day society, this production is quite emphatic in its purpose.

[@farhaanchohan9741]

The Student has become the master 👏👏

[@johnpaul5474]

In the unique qualities of his person, Peter Ackroyd embodies the primary value of the Romantic Revolution. He and his life and work are its fulfillment. This is apparent. I thank him for the work he's done to bring the news to the rest of us.

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

By God this is the best documentary series I've ever seen on this subject. So evocative. It really works to get across the spirit of Romanticism not only in describing and narrating but by expressing it in the very presentational style of the programme.

[@BTSARMY-bh8xt]

Can you plz tell me the main points of this episode

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

@@BTSARMY-bh8xt You can't just watch it?

[@grarout1]

This is superb. Looking forward to next episode. Thank you so much for uploading.

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

Excellent! Would love to see more like this. Have always admired Coleridge and he is one of a few poets I would have loved to have met. This has prompted me to read the Lyrical Ballads again.

[@naeemjani9938]

It's my subject tell me about plz

[@nna550]

I wish i could have seen this 7yrs back when i was in my masters. I would have definitely devoted more of my time in literature back then. It is far more bttr then watching movies. It aroused interest in me for my subject that i haven't study for last 6 yrs. Thanx for the motivation.

[@bealtainecottage]

Peter Ackroyd is simply brilliant!

[@Hugatree1]

This is magnificent. More than I could have imagined

[@elisechen3565]

I simply love this documentary. It gives so much insight and the music is more than appropriate.

[@TheVeek192]

How is something "more than appropriate?"

[@imnotalizard1397]

the dark tone of the opening was completely hilarious for me because of the adorable face and voice of the narrator😆 pulse it helped me out with my paper. what a wonderful day.

[@gauravsharma9655]

Great work!

[@willsjaime]

Such a dark summary of such a fascinating time.

[@sattarabus]

The docu carries the singular BBC cachet. The narration deftly blends with the visuals marked by surreal jump-cut, montage, and subtle interplay of light and shade that accentuates angularities of characters represented. I could have sworn the rough-hewn, weather-beaten, ancient mariner with a bronchial, throaty voice was the real- life escapee from Coleridge's piacular ballad.

[@nozecone]

I wouldn't use the term "piacular" - but only because I have no idea what it means. Otherwise, I agree, particularly re: the 'ancient mariner'. My only nit-picking nit-pick is that his teeth were too clean and healthy-looking. But what a face, and what a voice!

[@sattarabus]

A word is worth a thousand pictures. Piacular denotes atonement, expiation... to scrub off an acute sense of guilt. The ballad is a delight to read, with or without a stimulant. Pour a large one, nevertheless. Easy on water please !

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

I also thought the actor looked a bit realistic. And I agree with you about the wonderful composition, it really made me enjoy this doc.

[@dalilafrance]

Relocating dignity in the common place....beautiful

[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

I am so enjoying this journey many thanks.

[@freedomsorator2217]

Rousseau said that; 'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.' and he wrote also that 'Freedom is the power to choose our own chains.' So he is a man of paradoxes as he wished to be. :))

[@arshijahan4016]

Khatia Shiuka He is known to be the most paradox philosopher in the history! A man full of contradictions!

[@kenjideh-ha873]

Khatia Shiuka “Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.” ― j j rousseau

[@windstorm1000]

so true!

[@mortyfalch]

yes we are all in chains!!! its the urge to have comfort, and in christendom its called the original sin... ain it

[@robertjsmith]

if your religious ,you dont know you are in chains. Freedom is seeing through the game of religion.

[@KizmetSirajli]

"Everyone was different; everyone was unique.. By making art out of revolutionary philosophy, Wordsworth and Coleridge succeeded where the revolution had failed. They gave politics a human face. Lyrical Ballads was a revolution in twenty-three poems."

[@sleepandpeep1155]

Who said this?

[@JonniePolyester]

That was excellent & Tinker (Dudley Sutton ) from Lovejoy as William Blake was such a bonus! 😊❤️👍

[@bellahu5330]

great documentary, and it's a plus that the narrator sounds like the clergyman in Princess Bride - "MAWWIAGE: that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam."

[@kemarwalker9091]

Wow! i have read The rime of the ancyent marinere, but i had marly read it as literature, but now understanding the significants of it, i have even greater respect!

[@heatherallingham7120]

Powerful. Many thanks.

[@farhaanchohan9741]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video, gained a new subscriber cmooon

[@muhammedrahman6975]

nah i sat through an hour of this just learned Coleridge was inspired by mary antionette and not Shakespeare quite disappointing if you ask me

[@farhaanchohan9741]

@@muhammedrahman6975 I can understand your disappointment but it’s not about the sole inspiration, it’s about the journey, the journey of literature which I believe u should embark upon young fellow

[@robertjsmith]

Brilliant

[@fortusvictus8297]

Rousseau being the Dr explains alot about how the 18th century unfolded.

[@LilacChimeMeditation]

You just gained a new subscriber! I love your channel. Great work! :)

[@carolannemckenzie3849]

Peter Ackroyd is one of the greatest biographers of all time, next to A N Wilson. In my humble opinion.

[@cristinavaltierra6338]

super buenos los documentales sobre el romanticismo.muchas gracias por alegramos la vida.

[@englishstartups1880]

10:28 there's a coherence and cohesion mistake.

[@oriel9347]

PLEASE can someone clear this up; did the guillotine blade get stuck in Louis neck as Mr Ackroyd claims or has he made it up for theatrical effect !?

[@Jack-er1sc]

IT'S DAVID TENNANT :D

[@ericchristen2623]

DIDER'S QUOTE PRICELESS!

[@surbhirohera]

Wow!!! Amazing effort. (y)

[@paulsanchez408]

How ironic and how tragic. And how fascinating.

[@julezzm5166]

oooo I like the music that was playing while he talked about Payne. anyone know the name??

[@theasdguy]

I'd like to learn more about Coleridge and Wordsworth. I am going to keep watching this Romantics youtube playlist. I find all of this stuff so fascinating. I guess there was such creativity in that time just as there is today. I wonder who is the most important thinker of that era?

[@mozartfan1629]

what is the music in this

[@ttacking_you]

Interesting, i was watching something about Ayatollah khomeinei and HE published his revolutionary manifesto in exile as well. It seems thats the only safe way? We got a couple of exiles, where can we find THEIR latest work?

[@ianwaldeck]

I wish you would indicate in which order these 3 documentaries are!

[@donnadiaz128]

Liberty, Nature and Eternity :)

[@mariacarolinamateosperez5038]

Liberty in Nature for d Eternity !

[@brannonmcclure6970]

I’m a Romantic. I’m here now; so, I am. Here.🧑‍🎨

[@raidzldn8873]

My teacher is tryna get me to watch this. 1 whole hour

[@denisececil8762]

Thanks

[@JonnKammeron]

Trophy.When we sleep,even in a coma, we can still hear what is going on around us. Please don't put yourself down. You are a Lifelong Learner with Dignity and Wisdom.

[@MG-ge5xq]

Just listening to this documentary it has something of a morbid beauty.

[@deadsteve2180]

Is that David Tenant from Doctor Who?? And the other guy is in Doctor Who as well as the Master, I think? I think he also played Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes.

[@chasel.9704]

This guy looks and sounds like if someone went “What if Elmer Fudd was extremely British?”

[@Unnameddmk]

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves. Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. Man confuses and confounds time, place and natural conditions. The more we are massed together the more corrupt we become. - J.J. Rousseau

[@Vreasque]

Hm. Good series of documentaries. by the way, on an unrelated note, is the woman who voiced Annete's letter the voice of Liliana in Dragon Age?

[@ericchristen2623]

Imagination is the only real king amongst men...

[@ericchristen2623]

Blake was one of the truly great Englishmen...

[@antibreakfastclub4382]

Anybody got the answers to the worksheet for this?

[@Lilhunnybuns]

You can watch it as fast as x2 speed

[@vallewis9926]

Interesting information about the Romantics, but I was distracted, and amused, by the strange, chubby little narrator walking around and looking menacingly at the camera at every scene change

[@BlowingInTheWind11]

he cried openly and often !!!

[@ValerianRen]

For assignment:(

[@tristanmarshall2224]

David Tennant!

[@Southpaw_Blick]

Troll. Every video you watch you write the same comment. Who are you trying to impress.

[@tristanmarshall2224]

+Andrew Lester I don't believe I've commented David Tennant on another video. Perhaps you've mistaken me for someone else?

[@akashdeepsidhu1886]

Is da overview hindi ch dsdo

[@Pay2winboi]

Punjabi ch bund paat di teri Sidhua

[@akashdeepsidhu1886]

Ki g samaj nhi aye

[@akashdeepsidhu1886]

Thoda j long overview dsdo

[@user-rc7gz4ok4e]

Tom Paine needs to revisit the US, he'd see a different picture evolving. Common Sense is getting harder to find.

[@trista4congress827]

Peter Ackroyd sounds like that 'Woman' (Roman) character in Monty Python's Life of Brian, who calls out names, Wobbert? Bwyan!!

[@trista4congress827]

Fwench Wadicals!

[@trista4congress827]

The Wevolution was caweewing out of controw!

[@jtgd]

Pilate ? Biggus Dickus' of Wome's fwiend ?

[@TrophyRaider]

Yeah I'm using this to fall asleep to, not knowing anything about the subject goodnight

[@girliek8030]

hahaha

[@johnmiller7453]

You've been sleeping most of your life so carry on.

[@anjalisaxena6085]

🤣

[@anjalisaxena6085]

🤣

[@worldpoetry3161]

Eu romântico, despeadamente romântico. Eu sou teor e paixão pela literatura

[@codeAlongwith]

Why does everyone in this look like they are in a horror movie? William Blake looks pretty dang scary!

[@dissolve842]

Spanish subs please.

[@mscrunchy68]

28:45

[@blacquesjacques7239]

The wrestling match between passion and reason brought in its wake liberty ?

[@forestdenizen6497]

This comment did not age well. - written from state-enforced lockdown May 2020. Enjoy the _new normal._

[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

Do I feel ashamed to be Human?Yes I do. Do I feel angry against myself?yes I am. Why so much negative emotions in Humankind of which I am mea culpa. It's hard to be envious jealous greedy selfish and the horrible feelings... Now greediness fuels the climate change for the worst and its ultimate annihilation.A Gift given to Humanity that Humans trampled and is still stamping upon...o I am so depressed..

[@cainster]

The documentary is nice but the narrator sounds like a bad version of a comic book villain in an animated television series.

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

He sounds fine. He's putting his own Romantic passion into it.

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

cainster recommend you don't watch. Doesn't sound like you're an intellectual. Just put some cartoons on

[@sallydarley9812]

I quite agree but it is Roger Ackroyd. Don't you know about him? The voice suits him. I thought he would have a voice like this.

[@MontyCantsin5]

@sallydarley9812: *Peter Ackroyd*

[@1872959]

...and yet man remains in chains. Only the masters changed.

[@guillermozalles9303]

Empire was very much alive for africans and native americans and many other cultures around the globe

[@voraciousreader3341]

“....everything in the world could be explained and understood.” I think this has been the boast of every age, hasn’t it? Not that Diderot’s contribution was trite! It’s just that, when men struggle to throw a rope around “Everything,” “Everything” morphs into something larger and more complex than the latest rope-thrower could possibly have imagined! And Diderot’s “world” was France....it’s the only world he knew. The WORLD was something so much more vast than he could ever have imagined. Once his great work was finished, people could not realize what they didn’t know, and everything devolved into violence and a Hell none of them wanted or foresaw. Men think, and people suffer.

[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

Listening to this I feel like I was in the Church in the Mosque in the Mandil in the Pagoda in the synagogue in the midst of Nature listening to Faith Wisdom Respect for each other for Flora Fauna Minerals Oceans Skies Earth Man Woman Children Living Dying Alive or Dead.Visible or Invisible Reality or Dreams Hope or Despair. A Detoxifying crucible where being aware of my frailties faults etc I still cherish Hope.I am not depressed....

[@MrSpragueMikuHatsune]

22:21 pole dancing, its the best part of this video lol

[@prinpelletier7754]

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was the first victim of the guillotine. Say his name

[@ericchristen2623]

"We will never have freedom until the last king, general and banker have been strangled by the entrails of the last priest, AI technology and corporate tyrants.

[@jamespotts8197]

I love the fact of; the concept of a "god" and or religion was and is, being slowly dismantled and eventually will be in it's totality left in the past, forgotten forever by knowledge, science and technology. Long live the Atheist Philosophers and Enlightened One's!

[@forestdenizen6497]

Popular Atheism is a speck of dust on the time line of human history, an aberration, and will inevitably pass. Progress is a myth.

[@sambatra6162]

@@forestdenizen6497 Nope conservatism is a myth.

[@GMT439]

Proof of all CLAIMS Required.

[@ericchristen2623]

Russo's revelation is wonderful and sadly true..

[@jabinjan9198]

a duck singing on frog's beats... a class orchestra.

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

Jabin Jan how deep and intellectual of you.

[@mrs.mcnamara1669]

Doctor Who!

[@Johnconno]

A storvy of vevolution and political intvigue.

[@alejandrafuentes6632]

SO, if everyday life is our prison, how is one supposed to live off air itself? How did these philosophers expect (since the Romantics were against the industrialization), for people to eat and live? Is there no balance between a healthy spirit and the need for work?

[@jacobholland7314]

Ms Coe gang rise up

[@marty9400]

slay

[@molly-qn9nw]

jajdyjrejje hi stay

[@RedRabbleRouser]

but this not if concern and also is suggests born upon the what, right? Anyone agree?

[@embelslishments]

Who decided that David should put on an English accent when quoting a French writer

[@jrrtolkien1295]

Because this is for English audience. Stop being toxic about it.

[@embelslishments]

@@jrrtolkien1295 I am said English audience lmao I'm not being toxic it just feels off

[@ericchristen2623]

Hitler was just a variation on the historic tradition of despotism...

[@MrLetrap]

Did youtube recently finally give up trying to represent real names?

[@chadpenner5059]

The guillotine was NOT invented by the namesake...it was invented by a german who built musical instruments i think his name was "schmidt".. oh well minor point but lets keep it real 😮😊

[@cowpunk000000009]

He fails to mention even one woman in this movement. I do love and read Peter Ackroyd, and I think his writing is important. But in leaving out half of mankind, his works continue to be always in question.

[@Gos1234567]

COW PUNK he does Mary Shelley in another episode

[@dmm3124]

He did mention some women.

[@forestdenizen6497]

He didn't mention the black and ethnic minority contributions either... Very problematic and NOT OK.

[@TorMax9]

​@@forestdenizen6497 - Oh, dear. Everything must be categorised, bureaucratised, reduced, very much against the spirit of Romanticism. Do you have a good idea? A liberating idea? An enlightening idea? An inspirational idea? A salutary idea? A sublime idea? Welcome! Gratitude! Appreciation! Whatever your gender or race or species. Offer fresh new functional ideas and perspectives and paradigms instead of whining about the old. Do better! Expand consciousness! Expand capacity!

[@ttacking_you]

If thinking was so dangerous back then, it's a good thing they weren't smoking that purp!?

[@algie-t2w]

Meanwhile, today in Britain a king is still head of state but now enjoying a luxurious lifestyle without the responsibilities. Our second legislative chamber, The House of Lords, remains entirely unelected and has more members than ever before. The aristocracy keep their stolen lands and their titles. This is Britain in 2023!

[@abooswalehmosafeer173]

What do I know? Que sais-je? Nothing. Nothing. As I vegetate What a malpropism Even vegetable grows The linearity of birth idleness death the only horizon O how I admire the thinkers the philosophers How I hate the politicians whose life missions and visions run along the way of selfishness greed lies ....

[@cathelijnevanderstar2978]

Now that I think of it, why is "William Blake" wearing a leather jacket? Not exactly representing the good man or the 18th century... 🤷‍♀️

[@forestdenizen6497]

Blake was a bit of a bruiser. You know the incident with the soldier in his garden.

[@unnameduserfromnet7998]

its dr who

[@neldino1251]

His hairline goes way past the 1000century

[@JSwift-jq3wn]

Why do we always have the feeling that we somehow know more than the previous generations? Is it because of technology, or change in our clothes? Historically oblivious primitives thought of the previous generation as gods; we think of ours as misguided activists. Do we know more, or better? Maybe history teaches only one thing: namely that all human endeavors are useless and that nothing ultimately changes. Not only "the sun also rises," but its shining is indifferent to everything.

[@Tal0815771]

where is slavery in the American Experiment or its settler-colonialism?

[@NCbassfishing24]

On the whole, academia wasn't quite as obsessed with it in 2005.

[@MatthewMcVeagh]

I did think of that myself.

[@andydryer1073]

Why does no one recognize that America didn't invent slavery. It's existed since the dawn of man. Never mind we were one of the first seven countries on earth to abolish slavery. It only matters that we were one of the thousands that implemented it. I guess that invalidates everything.

[@jtgd]

@@andydryer1073 i believe its because it comes off as hypocritical that the nations that claim they value freedom, liberty, and self determination practiced chattel slavery. I mean the American Declaration of Independence pretty much objects to the idea of slavery, yet it was practice that was legal and tolerated until nearly 90 years after.

[@andydryer1073]

@@jtgd right I understand that. But it's a stupid way to look at history. Liberalism was an evolution in human morality. You don't judge the man who was the first in his family to stop hard drugs. Even as he stumbles out of it and his children don't inherent the familial pathology, how insane would it be for those children to criticize their father's early substance abuse? It's the same thing. People don't realize how progressive anti slavery sentiment was then. It literally existed from time memorial.

[@SSNewberry]

Says Dr. Who.