The The Intelligible Ode : Intimations Of Paradise Av Graham Davidson

<!--StartFragment--><p><span>From its firstpublication, what is now known as the Immortality Ode has been praised for themagnificence 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 theseventeenth century, and recollections of childhood are Traherne''s startingpoint for the recovery of a lost vision comparable to Wordsworth''s. Via thepower of the imagination, or reason, they believed they could experience arenewed vision that both termed variously Paradise, or infinity, orimmortality. <o></o:p></span></p><p>

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