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The The Intelligible Ode: Intimations of Paradise
The The Intelligible Ode: Intimations of Paradise
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The Immortality Ode has been praised for its verse and criticized for its lack of meaning. It has precedents in the seventeenth century and is based on Traherne's recollections of childhood. Graham Davidson traces the origins of Wordsworth's poetic impetus to his resistance to the Cartesian division between mind and nature and demonstrates how his publishing history led the Victorians and modernists to misinterpret his work.
Format: Hardback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
From its initial publication, what is now recognized as the Immortality Ode has garnered both praise for the magnificence of its verse and criticism for its perceived lack of meaning. The immortality of the subtitle remains unsubstantiated, and the recollections portrayed are deemed insubstantial. However, it is worth noting that Wordsworth's concept of immortality has clear precedents in the seventeenth century, and Traherne's starting point for the recovery of a lost vision is comparable to Wordsworth's. Through the power of imagination or reason, they believed they could attain a renewed vision, which they variously termed as Paradise, infinity, or immortality.
Graham Davidson delves into the origins of Wordsworth's poetic impetus, tracing it back to his resistance against the Cartesian division between mind and nature, initially articulated by the Cambridge Platonists. If reunited, Paradise could be regained, but this personal trajectory was tempered by a profound sympathy for the woes of mortal life. Davidson explores the subsequent dialogue through some of Wordsworth's most renowned poems, with the Ode serving as a central focus.
In the final section, Davidson 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 mere verbiage.
Weight: 596g
Dimension: 241 x 163 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780718896430
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