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The ReLit Foundation: reading for wellbeing
Приєднався 10 лип 2018
ReLit is the Bibliotherapy Foundation, promoting slow reading of great literature, especially poetry, for stress relief and wellbeing.
Tea at the Palaz of Hoon
The first of the ReLit Foundation's new series of poems to help you relax. Focus, listen, empty your mind of other thoughts, and you may achieve a destressing ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response).
From Wallace Stevens, Harmonium (1923, public domain).
From Wallace Stevens, Harmonium (1923, public domain).
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Yeats' The Lake Isle of Innisfree read by Sir Jonathan Bate
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Part of "Readings for First Responders." In partnership with local hospitals, Professor Mark Lussier of Arizona State University started a program that offers short videos in which English faculty read poems as a gift to the first responders who endured so much during the Covid-19 pandemic, who may watch and sit for a moment with a poem, a passage that helps them reflect on their daily work.
Meditating with Virginia Woolf
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Team member Sally meditates by way of a lemon balsam plant and a passage from Viriginia Woolf's first published short story, the deeply mindful "The Mark on the Wall" (1917). You can find a full text of the (very) short story here: digital.library.upenn.edu/women/woolf/monday/monday-08.html.
Meditation via Small Things
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A meditation exercise using the image on a teacup. Words by Sally Bayley.
ReLit Summer Session Sample
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Professor Suzie Hanna describes her session for the ReLit Summer School in Oxford, titled The Naturalist's Journal. Participants created their own journals, inspired by the life and practice of Prof. Hanna's father, the late Ted Ellis.
The Naturalist's Journal
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A short, meditative video featuring photos and journal entries by 2018 ReLit Summer School participants. With special thanks to Prof. Suzie Hanna.
Series Finale: Ben Okri on the Value of Poetry
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To end our sequence of films about LITERATURE & MENTAL HEALTH: READING FOR WELLBEING, we return to our leading theme of the restorative power of poetry. In this final interview, Paula Byrne speaks to award-winning poet and novelist Ben Okri about his approach to writing poetry. Like Stephen Fry, Ben talks to us about the importance of poetic form in shaping and amplifying the content of a poem....
Melvyn Bragg on reading, writing and dementia
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Melvyn Bragg talks about dealing with his mother's dementia, momentarily reconnecting with her through a recitation of Wordsworth's "Daffodils", and his novel of old age, GRACE AND MARY.
Shakespeare on Old Age: Sir Ian McKellen on playing King Lear
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Does King Lear suffer from dementia, or just old age? Ian McKellen, who played the part for the Royal Shakespeare Company, has a very different view from that of Simon Russell Beale in his National Theatre platform talk, quoted in the previous film.
Simon Russell Beale on King Lear and Dementia
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In this extract from a platform interview at the National Theatre, Simon Russell Beale describes how he was helped in his preparation for playing the part of KING LEAR by finding out about Lewy Body Dementia. This extract is a "fair dealing" quotation from a platform talk (copyright: The National Theatre), which can be seen in full at ua-cam.com/video/xgXM0b6PaHw/v-deo.html. For a commentary on...
The Physiology of Dementia
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In conversation with Paula Byrne, Dr Simon Curtis explains the nature of dementia.
Series 6: Old Age and Dementia
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In our final series of films about LITERATURE & MENTAL HEALTH, we turn to old age: how did Shakespeare represent ageing in KING LEAR and did he portray the process of dementia, centuries before the diagnosis was understood?
Mark Haddon on his play about bipolar disorder
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Mark Haddon, author of *The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night*, tells Paula Byrne about his play POLAR BEARS - a theatrical exploration of bipolar disorder.
Bipolar Disorder
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Dr Andrew Schuman explains the nature of bipolar disorder.
Stephen Fry reads "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
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Stephen Fry reads "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats
Stephen Fry on Poetry and Depression
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Stephen Fry on Poetry and Depression
Rachel Kelly on Poetry and Depression
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Rachel Kelly on Poetry and Depression
Melvyn Bragg on Depression and the Power of Reading
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Melvyn Bragg on Depression and the Power of Reading
Katherine Philips: a poem on infant death
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Katherine Philips: a poem on infant death
War Poetry, Shellshock & PTSD: Sassoon, Owen, Shakespeare
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War Poetry, Shellshock & PTSD: Sassoon, Owen, Shakespeare
The Poetry of Shellshock: from W. W. Gibson to Wilfred Owen
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The Poetry of Shellshock: from W. W. Gibson to Wilfred Owen
Introduction to series 4: from Shellshock to PTSD
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Introduction to series 4: from Shellshock to PTSD
TALKING POINT: Can literature be harmful?
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TALKING POINT: Can literature be harmful?
Emily Dickinson's "I felt a funeral"
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Emily Dickinson's "I felt a funeral"
The Poor Bard of the Lakes struggles against the torrent of verbal incontinence ...
Splendid
Sligo is in Co Sligo ( not Galway!)
“Where but to think is to be full of sorrow” The birth of absurdism
Very interesting. I like Mr Bragg. I used to think he was up himself but, he’s just confident I think.
Once you know some of the struggles most people have had you like them a little more.
Eavesdropping on a conversation about a conversational poem, meta in the best of ways. It started running as the soundtrack for cleaning up my kitchen, inevitably the kitchen remains squalid as the background to a task broke ranks and became a most compelling guest.
Muito bonito! Leitura grave e fluida, verdadeira aula de declamação. Sentido que ultrapassa a barreira da língua.
It's REALLY difficult to find a version I'm happy with. It's best that I keep trying on my own I guess. Find it myself.
Beautiful!
Bravo Stephen Frye!
What a beautiful conversation. McKellen is such a great soul and I was moved to tears more than once. I never saw Lear as a redemptive play before this. On the theology of Lear to which Sir Ian makes reference from time to time I would argue that it is a necessary spiritual task to reject idols. Lear's loss of faith in the gods that have been the undergirding of his life until now is absolutely essential to the discovery of his humanity. Sir Ian speaks of everything being OK in the end. There is meaning within the tragic events. There is love.
Is there always love? Many lives are meaningless tales told by an idiot.
A very good interview: Two books I started, BUT put aside after some thirty pages each, were "A burnt out case" [Graham Greene] and "Nausea" [Sartre]. I saw a bit too much in them of my own personality I was uncomfortable with. Perhaps I'll return to them. Take care of yourself Melvyn.
Already with thee! tender is the night,
She's perfect
I went to the Nelson Thomlinson School Wigton at the same time as Melvin. X
Deedumdeedumdeedum...
Take A Moment Melvin is a genius 🎉 Thank you for your work. Stay Safe and Stay Free 2:06 🌐 😂
I am always a little surprised when lovers of imaginative literature do not reference Colin Falck’s Myth, Truth and Literature, which philosophically supports language’s effort to “reach beyond” normally used concepts, which language embodies: the transcendent/revelatory uses of language.
King Lear, a "Play about Retirement," just one of many brilliant insights from Sir Ian McKellen. Thank you for this gem of an interview. Truly fascinating!
This interview is so wonderful. I can listen Sir Ian talk all day❤
Emma Gifford was a solicitor's daughter and was the sister-in-law of the Cornish vicar, Rev. Caddell Holder not the daughter.
And now they are trying to restrict what we read. The communist chickens have finally come home to roost.
Mr Fry, thank you for having the courage to frankly express your issues with bipolar disorder & also drug & alcohol issues & a means of your own to deal with such things
She keeps saying PDSD 🤦♀
Perhaps, rather, to turn your back on your demons when you need the embrace of your angels. The balance is to recognize the need for both.
Depression to me heightens one's feelings, and makes me understand life differently to most.
Thank you for this amazing content. Am now obsessed with Ben Okri 🙌 genius
This is beautiful, and ASU is so lucky to have Prof. Bate.
just came here to say - good hair on the man here.
Melvyn Bragg ...the guy who could send a corpse to sleep 😴
That's what poetry is for isn't it? Hugs
Wow. Thank You for this and bless you, Stephen - you are a beautiful man who’s wit and expression of language covers a very wide spectrum of the human experience. Your honesty is deeply inspiring.
Those last few moments...as with Frank Skinner recently...such poweful emotion
A desperate request to Stephen Fry. It may sound like teaching your grandma how to suck eggs because he is a masterly actor, voice-over, and a factotum who can act and enact the most challenging roles. Please don't allow your voice and tone to dial down either in the middle or end of a sentence. Your listeners miss the words. It may be a mannerism or a vocal tic or a consequence of a momentary immersion in deep cogitation, it creates a gap in attentive listening. Since you command an amazing and engaging range of voice and words, it detracts from your impact on the viewers. Record such dips in amplitude and tone, and find out why the words trail off into inaudibility. You are a paragon a multitude of your fans would love to emulate.
Poetry as therapy poetry as form of delectation. Stephen has written an extremely beguiling book on poetry in all its multiple forms.
She uplifts me from the thumbnail alone.
Going into the mechanics of poetry, I, e, iambic pentameters et al, kill poetry stone dead for new people coming into it. Poetry doesn't do discussion, it just does poetry. For example, one doesn't dissect Rimbaud or Rilke, one lives them, one's consciousness is transformed by such sublime, ethereal verse. "I wish to be alone or be with those that know things others don't know". Rilke
"one must either become a work of art, or create a work of art, all else is folly". Oscar Wilde
ART Art is a dart that you aim at someone’s heart and if you reach it vibes will start: joy, sorrow or, maybe just a fart. Then you will feel a little bit smart and think: well, this is art!
Take heart, darling Stephen. Indeed, when we are down, we are down, but we always come up, up, up again: that's the beauty of being volatile.
Great video!
I admire Melvyn for admitting that he suffered from depression and in do so can help others.
She wants the Bragg.
Or rather, she's told by the misogynistic producers to show some skin.
Why do the BBC still employ him when he supports fox hunting. Pure evil.
shuuuut the fck up. he's contributed more to this world than you and your entire family have and ever will
Just seeing it pop up on UA-cam instantly lifted my depression before I have even viewed it Stephen is such a chap one of the true bastions of our great country. Now I'm off to phone spike 😉
Fry writes good books: listen to one
B"H Xmas is past.We thought, we sought ,we planned, we wished and we BOUGHT but still we didn't get what we wanted. We now HOPE for new Year's Eve and hope for the New Year to find a "better life" We all know what we need but who knows what we are needed for We are ALL Equal in that we have the same soul We are all different in tht no one shares the same kind of human body we have All Created beings NEED hope or we can't go on The Grass is greener On The Other Side, its what we HOPE will give us what we want When we get to the other Side we find that we didn't get all that we wanted Once KINGS and Emperoros ruled us as slaves NOW we are all slaves to our desires, we have hope that the next thing we are enslaved to buy and purchase will make us "happy" The new World Order is again King over us, were we ever free of kings? We all know what we NEED but do we know what we are NEEDED for? IF you ask yourself WHAT you are needed for as an Eternal Soul enclothed in a Human Physical Body, you will find the answer. As souls we are all one.
B"H Xmas is past.We thought, we sought ,we planned, we wished and we BOUGHT but still we didn't get what we wanted. We now HOPE for new Year's Eve and hope for the New Year to find a "better life" We all know what we need but who knows what we are needed for We are ALL Equal in that we have the same soul We are all different in tht no one shares the same kind of human body we have All Created beings NEED hope or we can't go on The Grass is greener On The Other Side, its what we HOPE will give us what we want When we get to the other Side we find that we didn't get all that we wanted Once KINGS and Emperoros ruled us as slaves NOW we are all slaves to our desires, we have hope that the next thing we are enslaved to buy and purchase will make us "happy" The new World Order is again King over us, were we ever free of kings? We all know what we NEED but do we know what we are NEEDED for? IF you ask yourself WHAT you are needed for as an Eternal Soul enclothed in a Human Physical Body, you will find the answer. As souls we are all one.
Don't go storming any government buildings to bring down the NWO.
@@buzzhawk No chance. I live in Israel!
@@RasMajnouni Very nice, you already live in the apartheid state.
@@buzzhawk You want to see ugly? Listen to the words and apply it to yourself: ua-cam.com/video/N1rwkgCAVsc/v-deo.html
This is a beautiful show. I love this so much <3
This man is evil.
You're a loon.
@@buzzhawk Better that than an evil hypocrite which he is.
“This man is evil” do you have a scale as in Hitler was evil, Stalin was evil, where on there does Bragg sit. Many words come to mind about Bragg but evil certainly isn’t one of them.
@@damian-g4lht Anyone who enjoys watching an animal being ripped to shreds, seriously need to question their mental health.