Audio Keats and Podcasts

[Malia]

Hi Everyone,
Keats is well known as being the "poet's poet". Here is a poet reading our poet! Stanley Plumly, author of Posthumous Keats, reads To Autumn:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15565

[Malia]

Here's an interesting, short, Audiocast about Keats and Negative Capability. On the page, you'll also find links to other video and audiocasts, including one about John Claire's Hymn to Spring and another that looks fascinating: "Keats, Goethe, Romanticism and the Evolution of Consciousness"

http://www.bmaaudio.com/index.php?main_ ... &chapter=1

[Malia]

Yet another audio/podcast for your edification and entertainment!

This is a lecture entitled "Keats, Shelley, and the 'Bright Star'" that I found on the Romantic Circles Blog. I have yet to listen to it, but the title makes it worth a listen, I think

http://www.rc.umd.edu/blog_rc/?p=181

[Raphael]

Thanks for them Malia! I cannot get the last one to open tho- must be the library PC- I'll try it at home later.

[Malia]

Raphael, some of these audio files open up with quicktime--your computer might not have that application loaded onto it.

[Saturn]

More likely in a public library you're not allowed to download stuff, the application is blocked or it's restricted.

[Raphael]

I thought one clicked to be able to listen- well I'll see how I get on at home later. But annoyingly my IP is still blocked so I won'y be able to post any comments on it!

[Saturn]

Sorry Raphael no more word about that

[Raphael]

Sorry Raphael no more word about that

I'm in the UK online place this afternoon- I can post from here.I wonder where Thilo is? Someone must be maintaining the board...

[Saturn]

There have been no changes, Thilo hasn't even read the message I sent, you just must be lucky today, and I maintain this board with the help of Malia.

[Raphael]

There have been no changes, Thilo hasn't even read the message I sent, you just must be lucky today, and I maintain this board with the help of Malia.

I'm at a UK online place using the web there Saturn- I needed to do some printing and so I didn't even bother trying my home connection to post as I was coming here. Thilo maybe is stranded in some remote corner of Europe with no planes to get him back

[presently]

My apologies if this has been posted before, but I thought some of you might get a kick out of hearing F. Scott Fitzgerald recite "Ode to a Nightingale": http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/voice.html.

And here's an interview with Clive James that makes some insightful connections between K. and FSF (further down the page): http://www.clivejames.com/fscottf.

They both had the ability to write gorgeous words or scenes but at the same time it feels as if they've stepped back and are viewing their stories with a classical, "Grecian" detachment or impartiality--at least in "The Great Gatsby" and the Odes. It's easy to skip over the perfectly proportioned phrases too quickly and mistake them for being just "pretty" without feeling the austerity and authorial judgment behind them.

Or maybe I'm just rambling.

[Raphael]

Raphael, some of these audio files open up with quicktime--your computer might not have that application loaded onto it.

I have quick time downloaded at home now thanks Malia!
Thanks for the links presently!

[Raphael]

Yet another audio/podcast for your edification and entertainment!

This is a lecture entitled "Keats, Shelley, and the 'Bright Star'" that I found on the Romantic Circles Blog. I have yet to listen to it, but the title makes it worth a listen, I think

http://www.rc.umd.edu/blog_rc/?p=181

I have just listened to this- it is really interesting- Ms Gelpi is a good speaker- slow and clear and makes some fascinating links between Mr Shelley and our dear Junkets. The Bright Star sonnet is even more fascinating to me after listening to this lecture. Have you listened to it yet Malia? I didn't want to say too much so as not to spoil your listening!
Thanks very much for posting the link to it. it seems Mr Shelley was very fond of dear John indeed.

[Saturn]

He was more interested in his poetry, and what Keats was capable of methinks, he recognised his genius while he was still alive, and wanted to gently nurture it in his own style of writing.

Shelley never really was a friend of Keats, but he wanted Keats to look up tohim, his was a slightly patronising, avuncular looking-askance-down-his-spectacles interest in Keats.

Adonais, while no can argue it is not a beautiful poem, is more Shelley's homage to the Greek poet Bion than a true reflection of Keats - the phrase poetic license is just in that case.