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The Garden. Part 2 (1957-11-21)
About this film
In this episode, "Professor and Lowell Television Lecturer at Harvard University" I. A. Richards completes his reading and interpretation of Andrew Marvell's "The Garden," turning to the "neo-Platonic" elements of the poem, or what he refers to as "the big stuff." As throughout the series, he sits at a desk and addresses the camera; texts read at length scroll down the screen. Richards introduces the "engineering'" vocabulary of signal and noise and relates it to the poem's reception. He continues his running disquisition on the importance of Plato's thought. 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 (Poem), I. A. Richards, English literature, 17th century literature, The Sense of Poetry, Metaphysical poetry, Close reading, Biographical criticism, Nun Appleton House, Lord Fairfax, Mary Fairfax, Educational television, Poetry interpretation, Renunciation of ambition, Nature in literature, Harvard University, 1950s media, Poetic analysis, Literary theory, Pastoral poetry
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