The Romantics - Eternity (BBC documentary) 

Who else was sent by their English teacher?

"this experience would change the course of pizza's life" , thank you, subtitles.

I respect John Keats as a poet, a person & a man.

The more I read _Keats_ , The more I value Life and the importance of Living, it's not enough to merely exist.

Poor John. Shelley loved him, Byron hated him - but John was his own man. He went to Rome before dying, not to admire the art of Rome as stated here in this video - but under doctor's orders to get to a warmer, drier climate because his doctor said another English winter would kill him. His love for his Fanny Brawne is the stuff of legends. Byron did not love women - he only used them - with their permission (an abusive mother and nursemaid had much to do with that), but Keats loved Fanny till the end of his short life. Shelley admired Keats and was friends with him, and when Shelley himself drowned in Italy the following year at the age of 29, they found an open book of poetry by his friend John Keats in his pocket. Byron died 2 years later, 1824, in Greece, at the age of 36, after fighting with the Greeks in their revolution. He died of a fever. The three poets burned excessively bright - and burned out like spent flares within 3 years of each other. Fiction is not half so intense. Remarkable lives. But - poor Harriet - Shelley's first wife and the mother of his first 2 children - could not handle his abandonment and drowned herself in the River Serpentine at the age of 21,, freeing him to wed Mary of Frankenstein fame. Oh, the things we do to each other and to ourselves.

Of the three poets discussed, Keats is the one the I truly respect the most. As a poet and a person, he was a pure soul : )

These videos are the best on Romanticism on RU-vid. Succinct and sometimes shocking, they convey the spirit of Romanticism with evocative realism.

"he would meet another woman in old some pantless churchyard", thank you yet again, subtitles. Great vid, btw.

I feel inspired after watching this documentary. Thanks for posting.

There are a couple of people I have always wished I could go back in time and 'rescue' from their fates. Van Gough is one, Keat's the other, both 'innocents' in many ways, both blessed with deep empathy, genius and tragedy in equal measure.

You know this programme has to be good when I’m watching at 3am in the middle of the night having left my girlfriend in bed to hear a critical review about Percy Shelley!

Wonderful documentary , it was written by ackroyd , who is a highly knowledgeable writer and has written many biographies and poetry of his own

Surprising that they didn't mention that the 'Mary' of Shelley's affair was Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein and the grave was that of Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneer of Western 1st wave feminism, and that her father was the great William Godwin.

This is a very educative and informative documentry I have ever watched on Romanticism. I love it so much, it is useful for my research.

I'm inspired to read all the romantic poets.

I wasn't intending on watching this to be scared- best turn the light on!

.. While Wilde is still on my side from my teens to 53 plus.. 📚💙🙏😉

The image of Percy and Mary frick fracking on a tombstone will haunt my mind forever. Don't know if it's a good or bad thing.

indeed, thy dark eyes threw their soft persuasion on my brain

I watched this documentary during English class and I loved it. We were learning about the poets during romanticism and reading some of their poems then we watched a movie about John Keats but don't remember the movie and I want to watch it again.

This is the best television,realy well done.thanks

Disingenuousness. The world of lies that propagates an industrial civilization. Human exceptionalism - Almost everyone is guilty! Thank you, this was excellent to watch.

MY HERO

Brilliant series. Wordsworth is my man...

Excellent

Who else is here because of ms Coe

Oh Shelley loved Keats' poems, I love Shelley's, Keats' and Byron's poetry. The romantics were like me, full of passion and love.

Can´t believe they didn't mention the chapter at the Villa Diodati, that would be enough for a whole documentary itself.

I love and respect them all.

I cried like a madman. thank you :)

excellent

whenever I watch the documenter series, I suddenly remember sherlock holmes series

Interesting choice to show Byron strutting around the woods when he had a club foot that made him limp.

Should have touched on Byron's death. In a way, it epitomized Romanticism. Still excellent, though.

If you like this, listen to End Of The Night, The Crystal Ship, Waiting For The Sun and Spanish Caravan by The Doors, if you haven't heard them before. You'll love it.

Where my Bishop Eustace boys at?

honestly it's sad I was born and raised in London and Sussex England and knew NOTHING of it's history until now I am educating myself aged 25. In school in English Literature we were taught James Bond and Of Mice and Men by AMERICAN author John Steinbeck and Sylvia Plath another AMERICAN author, ridiculous. I don't understand why they don't just stick to classic literature of Keats, Shelley, Byron, Shakespeare etc. We were never taken to the homes, or graves or taught about our great literature radical, revolutionary history of our culture that has changed the way the world thinks, very strange.

99% of the uk population havent even heard of shelley so how on earth can they claim that their actions are based on his

Nice poem That I like it very much

Great documentary, although the actor they have playing Coleridge looks more like Wordsworth.

Wow, i didnt realize that when they found Shelleys body that they found a book of John Keats poems on him

I just wish the treatment weren't quite so heavy-handed and glum with that funereal music in the background that communicates dread rather than liberation.

And now you can listen to readings from these great titans of the imagination over on my channel.

i was looking for charles baudelaire in english..

Uncle Monty!

Coleridge, 420 before it was cool. Visionary

could someone please tell me if percy's childen by harriet westbrook--Charles and ianthe-- survived to adulthood--they get lost in the shuffle and the bio.'s don't say anything about them....

What's the soundtrack ?

Can someone sum up this video for me for an assignement?

I think one things we have to address more when we talk about literature, is how much of it is influenced by drugs.

Very good series. Why so much blood imagery, though? I'm a bit squeamish - maybe I need a 'trigger alert' ... !

Ahh, the 19th century... When having an incestuous relationship with your half-sister was less bad than allegedly having "homosexual relations"... :')

Spoiled by loud and distracting music.

they spelt separate wrong at 30.45

There is a lot of biography information, but not much about their works.

Hold on, I thought Keats copied Byron... I read in journals that he'd styled his own image on Byron's look. Even though it may be true that Byron didn't reciprocate the idealism in grief that Keats did - Keats definitely styled this idealism on Byron's act of sensation. Am I right? I swear I am.

You do not need a god to have an afterlife. There is no death. We are all one .

56:37 Give me a break. So the chest cavity was gone and the heart fell out? Try to picture this if you will. They reached into the flames and scooped it out unaffected like the rest of the body? A bit to obvious an attempt Im afraid. Poetry and its main flaw. Not exactly distinct from bulls##t. But who knows? It could be true. One thing is for certain , the world likes it to be true. And in the end Legend trumps memoirs. Man is an idiot.

Not a Word of Boy George, Steve Strange or Duran Duran!

"The Woyal Institution of Gweat Bwitain"...LOL. Sounds like a Monty Python skit.

Can't help but comment on the semi pro - christian narrative, particularly when describing Byron's escapades, as if the reason he endeavored in his activities was solely because he was godless.

spoilt by intrusive music

I can't understand how and why Shelly's actions can be *praised* ? Cheating on your spouse ! How the fuck is that romantic ?

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hiiia

We are not all romantics or individuals.Very few of us wear the mantle of Shelley Keats Byron and the others.Maybe only a handful.I am one of them.You are not.

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Great documentary, thanks. But "Keats had discovered the power of empathy. He chose arts over science" -that's a corny line.

Shame Shelly and the likes didn't stick around long enough to explore transcendentalism. Writers they may have been, but philosophers they were not, Nietzsche himself decimated these authors.

Presenter like a vampire mafia don with a dodgy moustache and 1 hell of a rrrrvoll of his rrrrrrvs

ALBERTO ANGELA IS BETTER....ITALY 4VER

Byron was the most pretentious poet. Keats was more real. Childe Harold is authentic and unpretentious yes, but after that--anything he wrote was on show.

wait.. 'secular idolatry?' huh?

haha perhaps i’m emo

Nasty stuff here. No thanks. My heart belongs to God.

Che documentario di merda

Blake was not free from ..god...nor Keats..nor Coleridge...nor Novalis and Goethe...it does a great disservice to ..the romantics..to label it as an atheistic movement.....the same with ..the beats...kerouac’s beatific vision of the beat in beatitude...etc..yes yes...even holy Shelley..visionary angel of adonais and poetic holiness.......

Awful

If you edit out all the god forsaken boring ass poetry in this episode, the remaining footage would be about five minutes long. Very frustrating.