The prime aim of "The Sense of Poetry" is to put great poetry before the public for whom simultaneous reading and listening offers a clearer presentation than either can apart. This series of eight lectures by Harvard Professor I.A. Richards gives background and insight, and will provide an exciting introduction to poetry that will capture the imagination of almost any group. 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.
