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Odes of absorption in the Restoration and early eighteenth century.(Critical essay)
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The story of the eighteenth-century ode maintains that Restoration histrionics give way to midcentury meditations. In the hands of William Collins and Thomas Gray, the story says, odes undergo a change of phase. Midcentury odes cease the public, extravagant, and topical strains of the earlier Pindaric, turning toward communion with veiled abstractions such as Evening and Mercy. This account is accurate in tracing the broad arc of the eighteenth-century ode's movement from public to private, panegyric to introspection, real persons to personified abstractions. But the borders ...
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