I’ll be vlogging my journey reading Shakespeare chronologically in a year. There will be meta-commentary videos like this one along the way: There will also be long lectures, deep dives into each play, mini-documentaries, attempts to break specific scenes and language and characters and themes apart. I also have a secret project in store for […]
The Poetry of Reddit: Vol. 1 (Video)
One of my favourite pastimes is being an absolute snob. I like to scroll through the poetry subreddit, r/Poetry, and lightly shit-talk the criticisms and selections. So why not turn the camera on for that? The Poetry of Reddit: Vol. 1 This tentative first episode contains poems by: Bukowski Shakespeare D. H. Lawrence Mako Iwamatsu […]
How to Read Shakespeare in a Year (Video)
I’ve talked about how to read the complete works of Shakespeare in a year. But I’ve recently decided to read everything Shakespeare wrote in chronological order and document my journey in video form, kicking off with this introductory video here: I’ve decided on reading Shakespeare chronologically because I want to know Shakespeare the man, the […]
Analysing ‘The Horla’ by Guy de Maupassant (Video)
‘The Horla’ by Guy de Maupassant is one of my favourite short stories of all time. So here’s my brand of analysis. We take a short story – sometimes a poem or a play or a philosophical tract – and we make the poetic eminently practical. We suck the marrow out of the work. We […]
Aristotle’s Ethics: Magnificence and Pride (Podcast)
We’re expanding upon the first and second Aristotle podcasts. We’re talking about the virtues of magnificence and pride. Check out the timestamps below for quickly navigating to any topic that interests you the most. And, if you have a second, I’d be grateful if you left a review on iTunes, which lets me know to […]
The Poem That Made Me Fall In Love with Poetry (Video)
Every lover of poetry remembers the poem that made them fall in love with the art. It’s usually not even an entire poem that makes us fall in love. Often it’s just one line. Sometimes one phrase or word. Stephen Fry, in the wonderful Ode Less Travelled cites an innocuous line from Keats’ ‘The Eve […]
Reading Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, Chapter One (Video)
I mentioned one of my passion projects was to read the entirety of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations aloud following the original serialised publication dates. Well, I’ve got started on that with the first two chapters, with chapter one released today. In an ideal world, I would have read this great work in front of a crackling […]
Why I Read (Video)
This is why I read. And this is why I started Hardcore Literature. Why do you read? This Is Why I Read Notes from the video: Reading sharpens your empathy Literature gives a great deal of joy A book is the soul of another human being You can predict the future by reading history Reading […]
Analysing William Blake’s ‘London’ (Video)
We’re talking about oppression. We’re talking about victimisation. And we’re talking about vision, prophecy, and poetry. All this by studying, analysing, and lovingly picking apart one of my personal favourite poems: ‘London’ by William Blake. William Blake’s ‘London’ Poem Analysis
The Seneca Podcast
Today we’re looking at the eighty-eighth letter from Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic. This is a shorter-form episode. I’m experimenting with content under 10 minutes long. Let me know what you think. I’ll likely turn this into its own long-running series, and we’ll deal with a different aspect from Seneca’s letters every now and then. Today […]
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