Now showing
The Garden. Part 1 (1957-11-14)
About this film
In this episode, "Professor and Lowell Television Lecturer at Harvard University" I. A. Richards reads and discusses Andrew Marvell's "The Garden." Richards introduces another "neo-Platonist" anatomical chart for use in diagramming the poem, this time mapping the stanzas onto a body whose head contains "Lovers of Wisdom," thorax manifests "Lovers of Honor," and abdomen hosts "Lovers of Pleasure." He dwells at length on sublimated passions as he explains how Marvell's poem establishes relationships among head, thorax, and abdomenal "loves." Summary and select metadata for this record was submitted by John Marx & Mark Cooper.
Directors & creators
WGBH Educational Foundation
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Andrew Marvell, The Garden, I. A. Richards, English Literature, Metaphysical Poetry, 17th Century Poetry, Nature, Solitude, Contemplation, Greek Mythology, Apollo and Daphne, Pan and Syrinx, Educational Television, Harvard University, Pastoral Poetry, The Sense of Poetry, Poetic Analysis, Imagery, Verse, Aesthetics, Lyric Poetry
More from this pool