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. 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.
