The Intelligible Ode

Author : Graham Davidson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0718896432
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intelligible Ode written by Graham Davidson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its first publication, what is now known as the Immortality Ode has been praised for the magnificence of its verse and disparaged for its paucity of meaning - the ‘immortality’ of the subtitle unsubstantiated, and the ‘recollections’ insubstantial. Yet Wordsworth’s idea of immortality has clear precedents in the seventeenth century, and recollections of childhood are Traherne’s starting point for the recovery of a lost vision comparable to Wordsworth’s. Via the power of the imagination, or reason, they believed they could experience a renewed vision that both termed variously Paradise, or infinity, or immortality. Graham Davidson traces the origins of Wordsworth’s poetic impetus to his resistance to the Cartesian division between mind and nature, first adumbrated by the Cambridge Platonists. If reunited, Paradise was regained, but this personal trajectory was tempered by a deep sympathy for the woes of mortal life. Davidson explores the consequent dialogue through some of Wordsworth’s best-known poems, at the heart of which is the Ode. In the last section, he demonstrates how Wordsworth’s publishing history led the Victorians and modernists to misinterpret his work; if one considers Eliot’s Four Quartets as odes, facing several of the same problems as did Wordsworth, there is some irony in Eliot’s dismissal of the Immortality Ode as ‘verbiage’.

Author : Graham Davidson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 0718896467
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intelligible Ode written by Graham Davidson and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its first publication, what is now known as the Immortality Ode has been praised for the magnificence of its verse and disparaged for its paucity of meaning - the 'immortality' of the subtitle unsubstantiated, and the 'recollections' insubstantial. Yet Wordsworth's idea of immortality has clear precedents in the seventeenth century, and recollections of childhood are Traherne's starting point for the recovery of a lost vision comparable to Wordsworth's. Via the power of the imagination, or reason, they believed they could experience a renewed vision that both termed variously Paradise, or infinity, or immortality. Graham Davidson traces the origins of Wordsworth's poetic impetus to his resistance to the Cartesian division between mind and nature, first adumbrated by the Cambridge Platonists. If reunited, Paradise was regained, but this personal trajectory was tempered by a deep sympathy for the woes of mortal life. Davidson explores the consequent dialogue through some of Wordsworth's best-known poems, at the heart of which is the Ode. In the last section, he demonstrates how Wordsworth's publishing history led the Victorians and modernists to misinterpret his work; if one considers Eliot's Four Quartets as odes, facing several of the same problems as did Wordsworth, there is some irony in Eliot's dismissal of the Immortality Ode as 'verbiage'.

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Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roisín Laing
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031413822
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precocious Child in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Roisín Laing and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Odysseus Elytis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980649
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Axion Esti written by Odysseus Elytis and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Axion Esti is probably the most widely read volume of verse to have appeared in Greece since World War II and remains a classic today. Those who follow the music of Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis have been especially drawn to Odysseus Elytis's work, his prose is widely considered a mirror to the revolutionary music of Theodorakis. The "autobiographical" elements are constantly colored by allusion to the history of Greece, thus, the poems express a contemporary consciousness fully resonant with those echoes of the past that have served most to shape the modern Greek experience.

Author : Henry Howard Earl of Surrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder: Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the elder, etc written by Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Howard earl of Surrey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
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Download or read book The Works written by Henry Howard earl of Surrey and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Howard Earl of Surrey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Henry Howard: Works of Wyatt written by Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick M. Keener
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 161149415X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes written by Frederick M. Keener and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2012-10-27 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes presents an account of “the Poets’ Secret,” the quite belated, historically recent, discovery by scholars and critics of something many poets have recognized and employed for ages: the sense expressed by allusively parallel parts within a text—thus expressed intratextually rather than only intertextually. Inferential perception of the implicit sense produced logically and linguistically—by enthymemes, implicatures, and other intratextual features, as well as intertextual ones—can be indispensable for readers’ comprehension of literary as well as other texts, especially their difficult passages. Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes addresses these elusive matters as they have historically been posed by Thomas Gray’s Pindaric odes of 1757, and mainly the first of them, “The Progress of Poesy,” a poem that readers have more or less knowledgeably struggled to understand from the outset. The process of disclosing that ode’s sense can be aided by new further reference to Paradise Lost, in the context of Gray’s largely unpublished Commonplace Book, with its extensive, little-studied, and very pertinent use of Plato and Locke.

Author : Katherine Withy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674286790
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heidegger on Being Uncanny written by Katherine Withy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are moments when things suddenly seem strange—objects in the world lose their meaning, we feel like strangers to ourselves, or human existence itself strikes us as bizarre and unintelligible. Through a detailed philosophical investigation of Heidegger’s concept of uncanniness (Unheimlichkeit), Katherine Withy explores what such experiences reveal about us. She argues that while others (such as Freud, in his seminal psychoanalytic essay, “The Uncanny”) take uncanniness to be an affective quality of strangeness or eeriness, Heidegger uses the concept to go beyond feeling uncanny to reach the ground of this feeling in our being uncanny. Heidegger on Being Uncanny answers those who wonder whether human existence is fundamentally strange to itself by showing that we can be what we are only if we do not fully understand what it is to be us. This fundamental finitude in our self-understanding is our uncanniness. In this first dedicated interpretation of Heidegger’s uncanniness, Withy tracks this concept from his early analyses of angst through his later interpretations of the choral ode from Sophocles’s Antigone. Her interpretation uncovers a novel and robust continuity in Heidegger’s thought and in his vision of the human being as uncanny, and it points the way toward what it is to live well as an uncanny human being.