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The Eric Metaxas Show
"webster joanne" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you, obviously, said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster Joanne sees now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest and God bless him for doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned it. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems. I'm really glad you bring this up because the whole thing was, I know that people don't read poetry. Poetry is dead. The art of poetry is for people like me who study English literature and who love English literature, but most people don't read it. And I didn't want you to have to know poetry or even like it to get into what I was saying. And these people lived some of the most interesting lives in literary history. They were I mean, there were 6 of them greatest poets who have ever lived living on the island, the British island at the same time. They were geniuses. They were drug addicts. They were scoundrels. They were brilliant. They fought with each other, they yelled at each other. I mean, this book starts with a wild, drunken party. They were all at the whole books have been written about this party. So I just wanted to get you into their minds so that you could see that what they were doing, this challenge of rebuilding the consciousness of human beings for the modern age was a dramatic human challenge taken on by dramatic humans. And the thing about intellectual life when it's lived at that level is it's just as exciting as being an explorer or being a soldier or any of the things that we always say. This is more dangerous. I mean, when I look at some ways that are destroyed, when you think of a Byron Mary Shelley, it's an interesting thing because we have seen it in our time. You parallel this era of the romantics from a little bit over 200 years ago with the modern era and the 60s. And we all see lives that have been destroyed, the abortions, the broken hearts, that just the drug deaths, right? It's very similar what you're writing about. I mean, when you talk about Byron's sister and all of this incredible, I mean, it's kind of funny because it is by renes. The romantic poet, the byronic hero, living for himself. It's kind of like a nietzschean ubermensch before Nietzsche, right? Just breaking all the rules and destroying humans in his wake, just leaving humans in his wake. But there's so many of these characters, and then some of them are really good people. I mean, when you look at wordsworth, keats. I mean, it's just, you know, I wish somebody would do a mini series a streaming series for Amazon Prime or something because these are amazing stories. And I know a number of these stories have been told here and there. But let's just talk about coleridge, for example. I really knew nothing about coleridge. And you, I mean, is there anybody funnier, more entertaining, more crazy, amazing, beautiful than Samuel coleridge? We should all know who he is, and you bring him to life. Yeah, and there are long paragraphs written about how much he talked. Just people were absolutely stunned by the wave of conversation that came off them. And every single one of them was changed. And when he met wordsworth when he first really got friendly with wordsworth, wordsworth was lost, you know, he was kind of a coleridge called him a semi atheist. He didn't know how to deal with the failure of the French Revolution. He had been a radical and now all his radical dreams were gone. He didn't have any money. You didn't know where he was going after a year of listening to coleridge pound him with talk. He became the greatest poet of his generation. And it was clearly from a collaboration with poet with coleridge that he had this vision of the human mind as being in collaboration essentially with God as he called it with the one great mind and that your life is a part of creation. Your life is continued creation. That was coleridge's idea that became wordsworth's idea. When he met keats, keats was on the verge of death keats died a very, very young man, one of the most tragic stories in the book, and keats was frozen. He was lost, and he had an hour or two hour talk with coleridge walking in the park, came back and in a couple of months, wrote 5 or 6 of the greatest poems ever written, really the greatest poetry since Shakespeare. And everything that coleridge touched as a broken man, this drug addict, this hysteric, this guy who's marriage was miserable. Everything he touched became magic, just lit up and even Mary Shelley, I have a chapter on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She was a little girl in coleridge came over her house and recited the rhyme of the ancient Mariner, and if you look at Frankenstein, the novel Frankenstein's filled with coleridge. I mean, coleridge is all through it. So he just changed everybody. It's pretty dramatic. I mean, and this is what I'm saying is that this is a story that I was unfamiliar with. And I was an English major at Yale. And they didn't teach this stuff. They were like already into Foucault and the Derry da. And why don't you go blow your brains out before you read the next poem? You know, that level of depth of literary criticism. And I have to say that when you get into this and you understand how it happened, there's something really beautiful about it. I mean, you talk about its lyrical ballads, is that the name of the book that coleridge wrote with wordsworth with wordsworth. Talk about that. We just got 60 seconds, but talk about that book. I was an absolute revolutionary book that changed the course of English poetry and really invented a new way of looking at the world for a new generation. I mean, really people there were stories about people who had been massively depressed and then read this book and sort of came back and started to understand the world better. And it really was this collaboration of coleridge, this deep believer in Christianity, but at a very intellectual level and wordsworth, this guy searching for meaning. And what he did was he turned words with into a poet who could see in the smallest, most broken person could see something beautiful. And that's what wordsworth writes about in it, where coleridge writes about kind of Supernatural ideas that lead us back to God. We're going to, we're going to go to another break. We apologize for the breaks, but this is principally radio. We'll be.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"webster joanne" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Volks welcome back, I'm talking to Andrew clavin. Do you understand? I'm talking to Andrew clavin, he's written a book called the truth and beauty. It's an amazing book. It is at least brilliant, at least, brilliant. And it was just wonderful to read Andrew, I want to say, congratulations on really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you, obviously, said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster Joanne sees now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest and God bless him for doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned it. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Author Andrew Klavan and Eric Discuss 'The Truth and the Beauty'
"Volks welcome back, I'm talking to Andrew clavin. Do you understand? I'm talking to Andrew clavin, he's written a book called the truth and beauty. It's an amazing book. It is at least brilliant, at least, brilliant. And it was just wonderful to read Andrew, I want to say, congratulations on really having the guts to write this book because I can see how a lot of editors or publishers would try to steer you in different directions. And you, obviously, said to them, shut up. Here's the book. And I'm so glad I'm so glad you did. There's only one editor that I could think of. When I finished it and I put it, as you know, I put a lot of work into it, I thought gee, if this one editor turns this down, I simply don't know where else where else I'll go. So Webster Joanne sees now the publisher of zander van, but he was my editor on my memoir, and he took it instantly. I'm not surprised. He would be the one that I would suggest and God bless him for doing that. Because this is an important book, and I think that, as I said, the level of writing what you get into, what really delighted me, as I mentioned this earlier, how you bring to life figures that I didn't really think of biographically. I mean, somebody mentions coleridge, okay, I've heard of the rhyme of the ancient Mariner. You mentioned keats, you mentioned it. These are figures that I had not really come to appreciate as human beings, just as these names behind poems.