The Sense of Poetry; The Garden. Part 2

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Title:
The Sense of Poetry; The Garden. Part 2
Description:
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. The prime aim of The Sense of Poetry is to put great poetry before the large and varied public for whom simultaneous reading and listening offers a clearer and fuller presentation than either can apart. Commentary, explanation, and criticism have been subordinated to this joint presentation and have been chiefly concerned to supply again by print and voice together passages of earlier prose and verse which assist in the exploration of the poem under study. The poems were selected and arranged so that this illustration by quotation might be cumulative. The series as a whole is an introduction to the theme: Platonism is English Poetry, and the passages cited from Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and others are among the essential roots of Western culture. This series of eight lectures, by a man of Professor I.A. Richards background and insight, as well as his dramatic flair, provides an exciting introduction to poetry that will capture the imagination of almost any group. This series was produced by WGBH-TV, with Lewis Barlow as producer. The 8 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on kinescope. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Producer:
Barlow, Lew
Production company:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Host:
Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979
Date:
November 12, 1957
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
Library of Congress
Collection (local):
American Archive of Public Broadcasting Collection
Series:
Library of Congress > The Sense of Poetry
Subjects:
Literature
Education
The Garden
Plato
Republic
Signal Theory
Richards, I. A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893-1979
Telecommunication
Poetry--Appreciation
Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678
Extent:
00:29:12
Link to Item:
http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-q23qv3cc6j
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Notes:
Episode Number: 5