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George Sand documentary
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (1 July 1804 - 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. She wrote more than 50 volumes of various works to her credit, including tales, plays and political texts, alongside her 70 novels.
George Sand documentary
2004
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George Sand documentary
2004
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Dylan Thomas documentary
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Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remai...
French Literature documentary
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19th-century French literature concerns the developments in French literature during a dynamic period in French history that saw the rise of Democracy and the fitful end of Monarchy and Empire. The period covered spans the following political regimes: Napoleon Bonaparte's Consulate (1799-1804) and Empire (1804-1814), the Restoration under Louis XVIII and Charles X (1814-1830), the July Monarchy...
W. B. Yeats documentary
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William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. W. B. Yeats docum...
Sir Walter Scott documentary
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Sir Walter Scott (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor, and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion. He had a major impact on Europ...
Robert Louis Stevenson documentary
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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Robert Louis Stevenson documentary 2006
Roald Dahl documentary
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Roald Dahl (13 September 1916 - 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot of Norwegian descent. His books have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. Dahl has been called "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". His works for children include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate F...
Virginia Woolf documentary
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Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight which includ...
Jonathan Swift documentary
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Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 - 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712),...
Brazilian Literature documentary
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Graciliano Ramos de Oliveira (October 27, 1892 - March 20, 1953) was a Brazilian modernist writer, politician and journalist. He is known worldwide for his portrayal of the precarious situation of the poor inhabitants of the Brazilian sertão in his novel Vidas secas. His characters are complex, nuanced, and tend to have pessimistic world views, from which Ramos deals with topics such as the lus...
Tennessee Williams documentary
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Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of The Glass ...
John Milton documentary
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John Milton (9 December 1608 - 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual who served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). Written in blank verse, Paradise Lost is widely considered to be one of...
Greenwich Village Writers documentary
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Greenwich Village historically was known as an important landmark on the map of American bohemian culture in the early and mid-20th century. The neighborhood was known for its colorful, artistic residents and the alternative culture they propagated. Due in part to the progressive attitudes of many of its residents, the Village was a focal point of new movements and ideas, whether political, art...
William Wordsworth documentary
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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 - 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was pos...
Edna St. Vincent Millay documentary
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Edna St. Vincent Millay documentary
Very strange that the first music we hear in this documentary was written almost 300 years after Dante died! Considering the number of fantastic recordings available of music of Dante’s period, it seems like anodd choice.
not the year 0 but the year 1
She was so amazing, there is no writer who compares... Someone said, "If you love Virginia Woolf, try Nettie Magnan. "...but she only has one novel... I think I'll reread Virginia Woolf's 'Night and Day' soon. The only one I haven't read... 🖤
Brilliant. Thank you so much.
1:06:05 Yeshua/Jesus didn't lie, the Txts were selected and (edited) by Constatine's Priests tasked with Establishing him a "1 State Religion". (The Romans loathed the Jews) and Jesus was a practicing Rabbi, a Nazarine, and the additional content was based on the "Universal Law of Attraction" ... and the rest of that Author's impression is very likely CORRECT. History helps ... Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian
Dante born 1265, guteberg 1390. So during Dante's time books were multiplied by hand. Doubt that his influence was so big.^^
Great biography; thank you/merci.
badly done. no inspiration
38:21 Realism
Thank you for a well researched subject !. Most interesting and informative !.
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Right at the end of this you see footage of Daphne walking, and it's interesting that her love of hiking wasn't mentioned in this documentary. She was an intrepid hiker, and did one fantastic hike with Clara Vyvyan in the Pindus Mountains in Greece. There's a great chapter about Daphne Du Maurier in Annabel Abbs' book, Windswept.
My favorite poet! Long live Rimbaud!!!
Interesting. Du Maurier and Christie both neglected military wives and both bestselling authors.
Obviously she was a repressed gay woman. Sad she couldn’t live her life the way she really wanted to
Really wish the videos didn't have such loud music.
Thank you for narrating this beautiful story in my opinion also to those who worked hard to make sure that it's available to me and everyone else who is curious...I hope.
It is refreshing to hear "AD" and "BC." In contrast, "CE" and "BCE" are just like Emperor's New Clothes, which is nothing but a bigotry of academic/political/religious bigots. If such bigotry expands to an extreme, speaking "BC/AD might become a capital offense someday.
There's an air of disaster in the way the story is told, in the voices of the commentators and in the music. It's interesting how these things affect our reception of what is being told.
He was a loser with a good job! Bummer!😱😱
"Countless bullies" etc.: is this yet another ignorant shot at the Catholic Church?
You can smile... Although POE's manifest interests seem to be horror and mistery, his real concerns are, in their deepest underground, LANGUAGE and CULTURE. The first are just a wrapper for the second.
Don't feel ill. The sentencing of Trump coming up. What about God or Spirit? The politicians never mention the Creator. God is watching. Not to worry. I'm not religious but I do speak to Mother Mary in my heart. I'm asking for her help. Our children don't deserve to grow up with a rapist, fraud, and demonic liar in the White House. It's horrifying
"To love nature is to tame it." 🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵💫✨️💫 "To love all that is true." Bravo, George Sand woman extrandinare ❤
Nonsense.
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What is this? Readers Digest’s history with inaccuracies? Year Zero? Good Lord.
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Starts at 1:01 You’re welcome 😂
Thank you for bringing this forward ‼️👏
Does anybody know which French Dracula comics/BD were featured in this, they looked cool?
Goodness I'd love to own that stilleto .
Thanks for sharing this documentary she was definitely an interesting woman 💕 Also side note i'm gonna go out on a limb and say I bet George didn't like/get along with her daughter because they were really similar based on what we know (pretty much everything her daughter did George herself did which is funny considering George didn't like it guess it was okay for her to do but not anyone else or she was just that oblivious to the fact) 🤔 And it's pretty common that people with that similar of a personality clash. My mom was abusive and toxic but even putting that to the side we share similar traits (it scares me and I hate to admit that) to the point where we always clashed (my older sister tho just like George's son put up with it, catered to her, and tried to conform to what mom wanted or what she thought mom wanted and desperately wanted her love attention and care no matter how bad she was to her whereas I constantly pushed against her and at a certain point stopped caring didn't see the point she was never going to change and went no contact with her 6 or so years ago) so I wonder if that played a part in it (at least I hope so because the alternative is way worse that she was just a shitty mom who played favorites who was so full of herself that she expected people to bow down and cater to her those who weren't got the axe and she made damn sure her daughter knew it 🤷🏻♀️). Interesting to think about and even more interesting seeing how complex people are 🤔
I have been looking for a video like this❤ i dont ever regret being subscribed to this channel❤ Wonderful, thank you so much
So lovely a presentation. Thank you.
Une grande dame au talent immense ❤🎉
Diverse and interesting life she had ! 😊
There was never a mast-man in any of his prose.
this is a waste of time
Lets help this get big so the world can get better.
ENGLISH IS MY SECOND LANGUAGE. HEARING OLD ENGLISH IT SOOTHING TO MY EMOTIONS. WE HAVE ENDED UP HEARING OBSENITIES EVERYWHERE WE WANDER ABOUT.
A very professional production. Thank you .
I just started reading my first DuMaurier novel, The Scapegoat, today. I figured I'd read 34 pages--one tenth the length of the book. I've already reached page 78, and I know I can't pick it up again till tomorrow: if I do, I'll read through the night. Completely mesmerizing.
I'm sorry, but you show great chauvinism by stating "religion and art do not mix". Are you seriously stating that christianity had not produced works of art? I guess the Hagia Sophia, Notre Dame, the mosaics in Ravenna and Santa Maria Maiore, Fray Angelico, Giotto, Rublev and many many others do not qualify as art in your irrational standards.
"God is not great. How religion poisons everything." By Richard Hitchens.
As a traveler who has visited Florence, Rome, Athens, Jerusalem. . . even Shanghaii, Chungdu and Beijing, I greatly appreciate your studious perception and sensitivity to time itself and the influences therein. Thank you! Keep up the good work.
WELL DONE SIR!!!
But for the curse of Christianity we'd be on Mars by now.
Do we really need to go and trash Mars? Religious or not, we are an awful species. Look at the havoc humans created under secular governments such as USSR and China.
Or we'd be extinct already, instead of on our way to extinction. Every curse is a blessing, every blessing is a curse.
What evidence have you for saying that ? .Newton ( gravity ) and Lemaitre ( big bang theory) - both Christians and both provided the science that helped get humankind to the moon . Are you saying that no one involved in the NASA moon project were Christians ???
Wonderful and beautiful
C.S. Lewis was, more than any living person, responsible for my conversion to Christianity. If you have not, please read Mere Christianity - IMO it was Lewis who was responsible for modern Christian apologetics. God bless C S Lewis
I picked up some new details on Dante's life, particularly the time and social circumstances into which he was born and grew up, and that was the most interesting part for me. It was difficult to follow the quotes from the book out of context. As always, Malcolm Hossick was an excellent narrator. And he apparently writes and directs these documentaries. My favorite line was his explanation for the appeal of polytheism: "When things go wrong, there's always another god to blame." Thanks, Paul. Edit: I admire Hossick's characterization of the disgraceful power politics of the Catholic Church, too, and the offhand, dismissive way in which he delivers it, as if the Church and its history were beneath contempt.
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@@AuthorDocumentaries Since I know you're something of a Francophile, I offer this recommendation: The poet Dana Gioia has his own UA-cam channel, and his tripartite video essay on Charles Baudelaire is excellent. Highly recommended. His essays on the lives and works of E.A. Robinson and Wallace Stevens are also well worth a look.
@@JCPJCPJCP Thanks John Paul, I was looking for something to watch too. I've read Les Fleurs du Mal so this is perfect.
@@AuthorDocumentaries I'm glad. It's good to pass on good things, as you know. Dana Gioia appears exacting and committed at every stage of his UA-cam work I'm due to re-watch his videos on Baudelaire. "Paris Spleen," in translation, has been a longtime fave. Au revoir.
@@AuthorDocumentaries What did you think about the Baudelaire videos?
Love ,love and the love so more, is the divine answer to any question, ever posed.
It's only later on in life that I've come to the realization of just how destructive usury is. There isn't a country in the world that isn't negatively affe Ted from usury, debt, compound interest excessive loans, etc. It ought to be banned outright. Imagine the suffering that would be alleviated versus the few who'd have to find honest work.