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Oxford Comma

Romanticism Explained Through Paintings

9th - 12th
This is just one example of how you can use visual art to examine literary Romanticism. Main elements of Romanticism: Love of Nature Focus on Emotion Fascination with the Sublime Individualistic Byronic Heroes Interest in the...
Instructional Video16:12
TED Talks

TED: Why is colonialism (still) romanticized? | Farish Ahmad-Noor

12th - Higher Ed
Colonialism remains an inescapable blight on the present, lingering in the toxic, internalized mythologies and stereotypes that have outlived the regimes that created them, says historian Farish Ahmad-Noor. Examining why these prejudices...
Instructional Video7:48
Atomi

GCSE English Literature: Romanticism and Postmodernism

9th - 11th
In this video, we'll give a brief overview of two key literary contexts: Romanticism and postmodernism. We'll also explore what these movements meant for poetry. Watch more of our video lessons at http://www.getatomi.com
Instructional Video15:31
Alliterative

Sublime: The Aesthetics & Origins of Romanticism

9th - 11th
The architectural origins and aesthetic development of the word “Sublime”, and its importance to Romanticism. A version with no background music is here: https://youtu.be/ul_YAM_Udek For more on poetry, the Romantics, and the science and...
Instructional Video3:29
Hay Levels

ENGLISH LIT - Wye Valley Romanticism - Damian Walford Davies

9th - 11th
The Professor of English Literature and Chair of Literature Wales explains how the Wye Valley became the cradle of Romanticism.
Instructional Video2:04
Ashmolean Museum

William Blake: Poet, Artist & Visionary - a genius of early Romanticism in England

9th - 11th
Exhibition in Oxford open until 1 March 2015. Book now at: http://www.ashmolean.org/blake "The most original genius of early Romanticism in England" - Curator Colin Harrison tells us a little about the printmaker, painter, revolutionary...
Instructional Video11:44
Curated Video

Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I: Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be back at war just a couple of decades later. As an added bonus, World War I changed the way...
Instructional Video11:07
Crash Course

Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I Crash Course World History

12th - Higher Ed
In which John Green teaches you about the war that was supposed to end all wars. Instead, it solved nothing and set the stage for the world to be back at war just a couple of decades later. As an added bonus, World War I changed the way...
Instructional Video9:12
PBS

The Assassin Puzzle

12th - Higher Ed
Imagine you have a square-shaped room, and inside there is an assassin and a target. And suppose that any shot that the assassin takes can ricochet off the walls of the room, just like a ball on a billiard table. Is it possible to...
Instructional Video49:35
Gresham College

The 'Romantic' Guitar - Professor Christopher Page

10th - Higher Ed
An introduction to the guitar as the symbol of Romanticism at the turn of the 19th Century: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-romantic-guitar ‘If I could play upon the guitar’, wrote John Keats in a letter, ‘I might make...
Instructional Video1:02:21
Gresham College

The History and Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Congregation in the City of London

10th - Higher Ed
Bevis Marks Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in the UK (consecrated 1701), and is the 'cathedral synagogue' of a community which arrived in England in 1656 with the blessing of Oliver Cromwell, thus ending over three-and-a-half...
Instructional Video5:35
IT'S HISTORY

Alexander von Humboldt - The Great Explorer I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

12th - Higher Ed
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the last big explorers and polymath. Living in the time of the Industrial Revolution, Humboldt adapted the idea of romanticism, believing, that gathering knowledge on science will never be exhausted. He...
Instructional Video9:11
NativLang

First Contact Survival Kit - learn an undocumented language from scratch

9th - 11th
Wandering off your map, you meet people whose language is totally unknown to linguists. Can you learn to speak? Yes. Here's how. Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Become my patron:...
Instructional Video3:35
World Science Festival

John Nash: A Beautiful Mind

6th - 11th
When talking about geniuses, the conversation inevitably strays towards topics of eccentricity, or even madness. One needs only to look at the lives of artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Mark Rothko, or to mathematician John Nash...
Instructional Video3:29
World Science Festival

Madness and Creativity: Is the Science There?

6th - 11th
The tortured artist; the mad scientist; the insane genius. Since antiquity, it has been observed—even romanticized—that the most creative among us are also among the most unhinged. But is there an actual corollary between madness and...
Instructional Video4:06
Jim Crow Museum

Aunt Jemima "I'se in town, Honey!"

9th - 11th
A short video showing the marketing of Aunt Jemima and how this campaign has impacted many today. Many consider Aunt Jemima as a kind, happy motherly figure who made great pancakes. Aunt Jemima, sang songs, cooked pancakes, and told...
Instructional Video7:27
Getty Museum

Manhatta: A Film by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler

6th - 11th
In 1920 Paul Strand and artist Charles Sheeler collaborated on Manhatta, a short silent film that presents a day in the life of lower Manhattan. Inspired by Walt Whitman's book "Leaves of Grass," the film includes multiple segments that...
Instructional Video4:53
The Atlantic

A Dream of Happily Ever After

9th - 11th
Horatio Baltz was in Cuba participating in a filmmaking workshop led by Werner Herzog when he met nine-year-old Maribel. The schoolgirl, from the small, rural town of Pueblo Textil, wanted to tell him about love. Wearing a red uniform...
Instructional Video3:57
Tate

Life Drawing with Christopher Le Brun – Masterclass

K - 11th
Warning: Contains nudity Christopher Le Brun is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. A graduate of the Slade and Chelsea Schools of art, his work makes patent his strong attachment to the imagery and emotional address of Romanticism and...
Instructional Video5:09
Gresham College

Guitars in Romantic England: Music Lectures 2014-15 - An Introduction by Professor Christopher Page

10th - Higher Ed
Christopher Page introduces his upcoming series of free public lectures as Gresham Professor of Music: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/men-women-and-guitars-in-romantic-england The guitar is arguably the most widely cultivated instrument in the...
Instructional Video49:20
Gresham College

The Romantic Child

10th - Higher Ed
How did the Romantics invent the modern idea of childhood? This lecture puts particular emphasis on the poetry of Blake and Wordsworth. A lecture by Sir Jonathan Bate, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric 20 November 2018...
Instructional Video57:33
Gresham College

The Victorians: Art and Culture - Professor Richard J. Evans

10th - Higher Ed
The Victorian age began as an age of realism, in literature and art, and of nationalism and romanticism in music and culture. By the end of the century, however, the high noon of Victorian culture was starting to give way to more...
Instructional Video2:38
FutureLearn

What are the qualities that made Wordsworth's poems rise to prominence?

9th - 11th
This video is from https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/william-wordsworth/1/ ‘William Wordsworth: Poetry, People and Place’ is a free online course by the University of Lancaster available on FutureLearn.com Lyrical Ballads is one of the...
Instructional Video10:52
IT'S HISTORY

Arts and Culture During THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

12th - Higher Ed
The Industrial Revolution did not just change the way we work but our very social fabric. So, it is only natural that arts and culture underwent a fundamental change as well. Romanticism, Realism and the road to modernity with...

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