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Out of curiosity Dr. Scott, have you read “Grave Error”? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us" - St. Anthony

Thanks for the lecture! Found your channel while searching for info on John Donne. Recently been diving into the English Metaphysical and Romantic poets. Also slowly conducting a survey of the more mainstream aspects of modern/postmodern thought after several years of investigating what I now know to be referred to as the 'western esoteric tradition'. Your generously sharing your work is greatly appreciated Dr. Masson ❤‍🔥

You smack your lips too much and meander around points. Incredibly obnoxious. Say what needs to be said succinctly and stop rolling your spit around in your mouth.

These lectures have been a great resource! There's so much literature I never got to read in highschool, in part because I dropped out, but now I am catching up. I just picked up Orwell's 1984 and animal farm and saw you had these lectures online. It almost feels wrong not paying a tuition fee for the education you provide here. Dostoyevski, Tolstoy and Nietzsche are next on my list, just in case you feel like creating a curriculum and teaching a class on their works in the coming year lol. Thanks Dr. Masson!

8:41 not all are contemporary agendas though, some are simply things said in subtext due to censorship in their time.

As soon as I heard the American accent that was it for me!

Hello 🤩 sir if you don't mind , I need your Whatsapp number plz

From what I've heard and read about the Lord of the Rings Smeagol is it very unique character.

What do you make of Milton's disregard for the octet and sestet dvision?

Great lecture. I make sure to listen to it each year.

I remember how puzzled I was when I was forced to engage with this topic when preparing for my BA thesis in Latin American literature (University of Warsaw, Poland). I just couldn’t understand why it was relevant, but the teacher seemed to idolize Haraway (and Foucault, Derrida etc). She didn’t accept any of my ideas because they weren’t political and I had to change the topic several times. I ended up writing about so called ecocritism because it was far more tolerable than feminism (everyone else in my group chose the latter). Literature is one of my biggest interests but when you want to study it nowadays it’s not really about analyzing and interpreting books with a humanistic approach, it’s all cultural marxism- you have to criticize and rebel against something. This is why I didn’t continue my studies and don’t think I ever will, which makes your channel a huge blessing.

Sir how are you? Nowadays I am going to translate preface into my mother tongue Pashto after completing sir Philip Sidney 's criticism The Defence of Poesie and Milton s Areopagitica

Excellent work, keep it up

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The child is right. Forgetting the dead means more dead as a cycle. It is particular with that culture and whatever the date was then. The adult is thus the child.

Dr. Masson, you quote Gramsci as targeting the Christian West via " the long march through the institutions." I've never been able to find that quote. Can you supply it? Thank you.

Dr. Masson, you always do such a great job in your teaching. Thank you. I enjoy all your classes.

Thanks.... It's intresting as always but could you name the book you were reading the poem from?

While I like various translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, including Tolkien's translations of both, I absolutely LOVE Heaney's Beowulf and Armitage's Gawain! 😊 Tolkien was far more scholar than poet, which is perfectly fine, and he did wonderful scholarship for both Beowulf and Gawain - and of course I love his works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - nevertheless Tolkien often wrote with a heavy hand and the result is leaden prose or verse in his translations (as well as his own LOTR, though his style fits his own saga). That heaviness may suit some passages of Beowulf and Gawain, but it ill-befits many other passages of both works. This is particularly true for Gawain, because the Gawain poet (aka the Pearl poet) often wrote with a light touch and employed amusement and humor as well. None of this really comes through in Tolkien. But it does shine through and brilliantly so in Armitage. And of course both Heaney and Armitage were offered the British poet laureate. Armitage accepted and serves as the current British poet laureate, whereas Heaney declined the honorific due to his cultural sympathies with and loyalties to his own Irish people. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and perhaps Armitage may win it someday. Given Heaney and Armitage's tremendous poetic powers in translating an ancient fellow poet's ancient poem, i.e., Beowulf and Gawain, it's no shame to say Tolkien is an inferior poet to Heaney and Armitage, even though Tolkien is the greater scholar who still produced good translations of both works.

It's interesting to know that there is only one single manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in existence. Same with Beowulf. Only one complete manuscript exists. And both manuscripts - both Gawain and Beowulf - were almost lost to history (e.g. a house fire almost burned both manuscripts). Compare this with the New Testament where we have approximately 5000+ manuscripts with multiple external attestments and support (e.g. such as early Christian writers quoting from the New Testament). Other ancient works likewise have far less manuscripts in existence than the NT including Homer and Virgil and Caesar's Gallic Wars and so on. So any time someone claims we can't trust the NT, then if so we can't trust many if not most other ancient texts either including texts which purport to report historical facts.

Brilliant! I am just discovering this book, (at age 68!) have reading it once, and realizing I need more information and background. Your explanations and readings are most helpful! (I also watched Apocalypse Now for the first time a few days ago!)

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‘Science’ wasn’t taught anywhere until it was born from natural philosophy in the renaissance.

Lol I've been telling people this whole history for 15 years and everyone laughed it off. Now people don't laugh anymore with guys like this and James lindsay.

The God delusion will be exposed near the advent of the singularity whereby we will abandon the flesh. The fantastically-arrogant religious notion of an afterlife will be exposed as the centuries-old fraud it has always been. What religion pretends to do, science will actually do. What a time to be alive! Vindication for us secularists is near.

God is obsolete

16:49 You could insert 2 quotes here. Gramsci: “Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” Engels: "All religions so far have been the expression of historical stages of development of individual peoples or groups of peoples. But communism is the stage of historical development which makes all existing religions superfluous and brings about their disappearance"

Thank you so much for sharing these lectures for free Dr.Masson, they really are a delight.

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Hello sir I have translated both the Defense of Poesie and Aeropagitica in my mother tongue Pashto with a comprehensive preface

Your channel is incredible and criminally underrated. Such a gem! Thank you very much!

I thought I was the only one who saw the connection between this poem and “Plato’s Cave”. Happy to learn that you saw it also.

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Sir, you mentioned something very odd to me. You mentioned that Jesus ,peace be upon him, is The Son of David! Doesn’t this demolish the miraculous nature of Jesus’s conception by The Holy Spirit?

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21:36 Why should religion not be the subject that should interest a critic? Don't critic see from all points of view ?

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planning to take my master's degree and your videos are helping me prepare for it :D 2024 this year and your lectures are timeless. thanks doc!!

Thank you for this fantastic lesson! It helped me so much for the test :)

*finishes Coke Zero* Ahh, just what the doctor ordered... Hmm?

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