Talk by Frank Kermode
Two years after Marvell's death his servant Mary Palmer , in order to forestall other claims, published his lyrical poems with an address to the ' Ingenious Reader.' In the Light of a new edition of. these poems, Frank Kermode argues that Marvell's poetry has tended to be confused on the one hand wirh the ' metaphysicals ' and on the other with nineteenth-century conceptions of tthe ' lyrical.' and that the poetical tradition to which he really belonged has in consequence been overlooked. The speaker suggests that a new critical language is needed to enable the ' ingenious reader ' to put Marvellin his proper perspective.
Mr. Kermode is Lecturer in English at
Reading University.
(The recordedbroadcast of Jan. 3)
7.0 app. Poems by Marvell and his contemporaries
Following his talk, Frank Kermode introduces well-known poems by Marvell and other less familiar poems of the period in order to bring out their relationship.
Readers: Tom Fleming
Janet Moffatt , Leslie Stokes
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 3)