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Record W3011531478 · doi:10.1017/9781787448957.010

Longfellow and Old English

2020· other· en· W3011531478 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
M. J. Toswell

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLexicography and Language Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArtLinguisticsPhilosophy

Abstract

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On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere, an express rider carrying documents and news from Boston to places as far afield as New York and Philadelphia, was given the task of carrying a warning to John Hancock and Samuel Adams at Lexington and to the military supply depot at Concord, letting them know that regular British troops were about to move into that area. His trip was, as all American schoolchildren know, immortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Paul Revere's Ride” made the silversmith and messenger into one of the great heroes of the American Revolution, consigning the second man sent on the same mission, William Dawes, to the dustbin of history. Longfellow had the touch, the common touch. During his lifetime, from 1807 to 1882, Longfellow was by far the most famous and beloved of American poets, a fatherly and grandfatherly figure whose narrative poems on Hiawatha, on the Acadian tragedy of Evangeline, on Paul Revere, on the wreck of the Hesperus were studied in school and at home as a matter of course, and whose tender and telling lyrics on the village blacksmith, on long-suffering slaves, on various geographical landmarks of New England and Europe were memorized and recited. His volumes of collected and selected poetry were shelved prominently in most American (and many Canadian) homes through the latter half of the nineteenth century, and remarkably continue in print today despite the precipitous drop in Longfellow's literary popularity through the twentieth century. Every day, my grandmother used her Longfellow as she used her Bible, as a kind of sortes Virgiliae that she would open at random, read, and then interpret in terms of her current situation. Like the Bible, Longfellow was infinitely applicable. And nowadays, indeed for the whole of the twentieth century and the opening fifth of the twenty-first century, he is infinitely vilifiable, infinitely to be excoriated for his sentimentalism, his mawkishness, his tender sensibilities, and his romanticized glorification of duty and responsibility, his civic-mindedness, and his commonsense approach to the writing of poetry as a kind of matterof- fact job that had to get done each day.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.169
Threshold uncertainty score0.944

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
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)0.0570.000

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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.184
Teacher spread0.171 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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