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The The Intelligible Ode (Hardcover)
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The The Intelligible Ode (Hardcover)
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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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