Marvell’s Garden and Ours – Otium

27 June 2025 Episode 5.18 Marvell’s Garden and Ours: Otium Speaking of links back to Andrew Marvell’s poetry–weren’t we?–we add a new concept into our repertoire which exposes some of our misapprehensions about nature, leisure, and work. And we read Marvell’s poem “The Garden” while we think green thoughts about it. Confused about our episode numbering? Don’t be! Since this episode is more about Andrew Marvell’s work, it appears as a Journey 5: Andrew Marvell episode, though it aired in the context of Journey 6 where the concept of otium became important to us! New to Literary Nomads? Check out episode 5.00 to find out what we’re all about: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/an-introduction-and-irony/ Listener Survey Available!  Please let me know what you thought of Season 5, and get some free stuff, too! https://forms.gle/rZEaGFhniuv78BwF7 Reading Ahead, Journey 6: Ursula K. Le Guin: “Vaster Than Empires and More Slow”:  https://eyeofmidas.com/scifi/LeGuin_VasterThanEmpires.pdf Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”: https://archive.org/download/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas-ursula-k-leguin/The%20Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Away%20from%20Omelas%20-%20Ursula%20K%20LeGuin.pdf Complete Resources: https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/ CHAPTERS 00:00     Reverie in Roma 04:32     Opening Theme 05:05     Building Nature 11:15     Reading” The Garden” by Andrew Marvell 15:14     Green Thoughts 23:05     Otium 37:35     Closing Theme and Credits === Transcript: https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-18-marvells-garden-and-ours-otium/ Have a Question? Literary Nomads Mailbag: https://forms.gle/WKGp1YWrazNZ3TLt8  === Literary Nomads is the primary program of Waywords Studio (https://waywordsstudio.com). The podcast posts new material each week, with thought-provoking examinations of literature around selected questions or themes and several smaller supplemental episodes in between the larger programs: history, writing, and contemporary applications of ideas. Visit us for expanded resources for guests and the Waywords community, for other programs and writing, and for opportunities to support our goal to expand reading. Resources available can include full bibliographies of material referenced, full and partial texts, annotated editions, supplemental and expanded episodes, fictional explorations, teaching and learning resources, additional essays, and online courses. Website:  https://waywordsstudio.com Newsletter: https://waywordsstudio.kit.com/ Instagram: @WaywordsStudio Facebook: Waywords.Studio YouTube: Waywords Studio LinkedIn: Waywords-Studio CREDITS: Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/) Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski USING THIS WORK: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It is open to be used and adapted for all not-for-profit uses with proper attribution. MLA CITATION: Chisnell, Steve. “Marvell’s Garden and Ours: Otium,’” Literary Nomads. Waywords Studio, 27 June 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/le-guin-omelas/.