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Record W153396171

"Scorn Not the Sonnet": Pushkin and Wordsworth (1)

2005· article· en· W153396171 on OpenAlex
Kenneth H. Ober, Warren U. Ober

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Bibliographic record

VenueGermano-Slavica · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicLiterature Analysis and Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSonnetPoetryIambic pentameterLiteratureArtElegyLamentPhilosophy
DOInot available

Abstract

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In 1831, when Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837) asked friend to have St. Petersburg bookseller send me Crabbe, Wodsworth [sic], Southey, and Schakspear [sic] (Shaw, 2:482), he had already read Wordsworth with sympathetic comprehension, during previous year he had written sonnet closely modeled on one of Wordsworth's. Pushkin's three sonnets--four, if Elegy in seven rhymed iambic pentameter couplets included--were written in 1830. Though not line-by-line translation of Wordsworth's not sonnet; Critic, you have frowned, one sonnet parallels it throughout, even using first line as subtitle. Pushkin first encountered Wordsworth's sonnet in pirated 1828 Paris edition of his Poetical Works published by brothers John Anthony and William Galignani, presumably based on first English collected edition of 1827, in which not Sonnet first appeared. (Pushkin also had in his library Paris editions in English of, e.g., Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats; Crabbe; Hazlitt; Washington Irving; Thomas Moore; Walter Scott; and Southey [Wolff, 495, 497, 503, 504, 510, 517, 518].) We quote Wordsworth's sonnet here from Galignani piracy, which Wordsworth ruefully acknowledged is printed with admirable accuracy, I have not noticed single error that I am not myself answerable for (Moorman, 550 note): Scorn not Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned. Mindless of its just honours;--with this Key Shakspeare unlocked his heart; melody Of this small Lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this Pipe did Tasso sound; Camoens soothed with it an Exile's grief; The Sonnet glittered gay myrtle Leaf Amid cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow: glow-worm Lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when damp Fell round path of Milton. in his hand The Thing became Trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains--alas, too few! (Wordsworth, 119) In 1803, English Annual Review had dismissed sonnets as at best ... but stiff difficult trifles, and surely more remote from simplicity which they often affect than any other class of poems in our language (Havens, 521-22). In this sonnet Wordsworth refutes such critics, along with Samuel Johnson, who characterized Milton as a genius who never learned art of doing little things with grace (Hill, 4:305). Similarly, in 1793, George Steevens rejected sonnets from his edition of William Shakespeare because, he said, strongest act of Parliament that could be framed, would fail to compel readers into their service (Havens, 480-81). And dismissing sonnets of Edmund Spenser in 1798, Nathan Drake wrote the critic will recognise many of trifling conceits of Italian, but find little to recompense trouble of research (Havens, 481). In not sonnet Wordsworth regards form as vehicle either or private themes. Milton him exemplifies public sonneteer, while private themes preoccupy other poets he lists, all of whom drew solace from sonnet as either exiles or lovers (or both) (Johnson, 39). His omitting great French sonnet writers, Du Bellay, Marot, or Ronsard, would be inexplicable except that, as William Hazlitt noted in The Spirit of Age, Wordsworth condemns all French writers (as well of poetry as prose) in lump (Howe, 11:93). Wordsworth himself, in his sonnet Great men [Milton and some of his contemporaries] have been among us ..., says, ... France, tis strange, Hath brought forth no such souls as we had then. No master spirit, no determined road; But equally want of books and men! (De Selincourt & Darbishire, 3:116-17) Still, in his vindication of sonnet Wordsworth marshalled distinguished array of continental poets, Petrarch, Torquato Tasso, Camoes, and Dante, alongside British Shakespeare, Spenser, and Milton, last revered by Wordsworth as preeminent creator of sonnets springing from the strife/That animates scenes of life (Wordsworth, 125). …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.666
Threshold uncertainty score0.484

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
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Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it