Journey 5: Andrew Marvell – “To His Coy Mistress”

Nineteen Literary Nomads podcast episodes taking on Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress" and the historical and popular history of carpe diem as it appears in literature, this is an unedited collection of the complete transcripts and bibliography, totaling 240 pages in pdf form. Most suitable for researchers, teachers, and students, this is a great document to give to AI readers like Notebook LM, CoPilot, Notion, Evernote, Obsidian, Mem.ai, and similar tools. (As a transcript, finding all of the references I make to irony in the poem, for instance, is difficult on its own.)

I reference dozens of other writers and works along the way, including Horace, Bellow, Rilke, Kipling, Wilde, Herrick, and even a Star Trek fan film. Key literary concepts irony, the role of narrator/speaker, polysemy, uncertainty, allusion, metaphysical poetry, poetic structure, ekphrasis and response literature, and "writing back" to authors, creatively and through essay.

More complete information on the podcast contents may be found on the Journey page: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/