Implication, readers' resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric odes / Frederick M. Keener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keener, Frederick M., 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771--Criticism and interpretation.

Gray, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More radically than had any contemporary English author's work, Thomas Gray's two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers' powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not widely had then, now, or in between: knowledge of Gray's largely unpublished and unstudied use of Plato and Locke, and particularly of logical and linguistic features-enthymemes, implicatures, and such-that Gray's writing employs.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: The Cognitive Reception of Gray's Pindarics; Chapter One: The "Unintelligible Obscure"; Chapter Two: Legacies Including Samuel Johnson's; Chapter Three: The Subsequent Progress of Elucidation; II: Further Implications of "The Progress of Poesy"; Chapter Four: Logic, Linguistic Semantics, and Pragmatics; Chapter Five: "But Far Above the Great"; Chapter Six: "Beneath the Good How Far"; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-89158-1

1-61149-415-X