Jorge Luis Borges: This Craft of Verse Lectures - thepostarchive

Why HN readers recommended it

Strongly recommended as under-appreciated lectures showing Borges' erudition, delivered in a hypnotic voice from memory.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

thepostarchive

Topic

poetry and literature

Format

lecture

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• [VIDEO] This is a fascinating series of lectures by Borges. Those who enjoy his erudition and his infectious love for English poetry will no doubt enjoy the investment of a few hours.

• Borges is the best author most people have never heard of. His stories are mind bending and he's an amazing human being. You can listen to him giving lectures on verse here, his voice is hypnotic: [VIDEO]

• These lectures by Borges are seriously under-appreciated: [VIDEO] The fact that Borges was, apparently at this point blind and doing these lectures essentially from memory is just mind boggling to me.