Richard Harvey
Richard Harvey has been passionate about literature since he was six years old. His mother often read to him from the Bible, and he still remembers the passage that riveted him—it was a vivid description of a powerful horse.
Harvey particularly admires Geoffrey Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Walt Whitman, and he loves Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables, which he calls "a work of massive proportions, massive thought, so far above the mean and tinny register it has received from modern adaptation."
He enjoys teaching adult learners because, in each class he has taught, "each individual has shown so much life force; each has come from a unique pattern of living; all show so much willingness to resume again and again the task of absorbing and expressing our common destiny as learners and celebrants of life."
Previously taught:
- Walt Whitman, Poet (55+)
- Rembrandt the Fabulist (55+)
- Modes and Basic Principles of Psychotherapy
- A Mind Diseased: Shakespeare's Study of Macbeth
- Human Emotions and Their Reflection in Literature (55+)
- The Experience of Literature: How to Read Poetry and Fiction (55+)
- Understanding Trauma
- Highly Successful Short Stories (55+)
- Kissing Cousins: Close Relations Between Fictional Art and Psychotherapy (55+)
- 100 Years in the Making: The Mysteries of Modern Psychotherapy Revealed (55+)
- Masters of the Short Story: Anton Chekhov and Kate Chopin (55+)
- The Astonishing Life, Art and Letters of Vincent van Gogh (55+)
