 | Jerrold E. Hogle - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 433 pages
...very likely arises from brooding "over the stories of Enoch and Elijah" to the point of hoping that "I should be translated, in something of the same way, to heaven." 26 But Shelley concludes that Wordsworth, as a Christian obsessed with hierarchy, still regards "the... | |
 | Susan Eilenberg - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 302 pages
...works if not for himself, an early wish. Commenting on the "Intimations" ode, he told Isabella Fenwick, "I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah,...translated in something of the same way to heaven." The copyright reform measure he advocated would provide for worthy books a heaven on earth — or,... | |
 | Vernon Lionel Shetley - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 226 pages
...remains suffused with a longing for the feeling of absolute autonomy he describes in the Fenwick note: "I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah,...translated, in something of the same way, to heaven" (Poetical Works 4:463). Bishop need not mount so elaborate an apology for the antisocial element of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fiction - 1994 - 628 pages
...death!' But it was not so much from [feelings] of animal vivacity that my difficulty came as from a sense of the indomitableness of the spirit within me. I...often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in,... | |
 | Eleanor Cook - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 352 pages
...occasion for doing so. Wordsworth's note on the "Immortality Ode" reads: "I used to brood [when a child] over the stories of Enoch and Elijah, and almost to...should be translated, in something of the same way, to heaven."9 We know little about Enoch except that he is said to have "walked with God" (Gen. 5:22, 24)... | |
 | J. Douglas Kneale - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 250 pages
...to his "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," Wordsworth points to another form of sublime translation: I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah,...often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in,... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 348 pages
...to Nature. He tells us that when young he had to touch things to convince himself they were there. "I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah,...often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in,... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
.... . . [I]t was not so much from feelings of animal vivacity that my difficulty came as from a sense of the indomitableness of the Spirit within me. I...should be translated, in something of the same way, to heaven"35 The "intimations of immortality" offered by the poem's myth ought to have restored some confidence... | |
 | Leon Waldoff - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 192 pages
...associates brooding with an involuntary rebirth: "I used to brood over the stories of Enoch & Elijah & almost to persuade myself that whatever might become...s[houl]d be translated in something of the same way to heaven."7 The speaker's emphasis on passive waiting and involuntary change in his representation of... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Literary Collections - 2002 - 172 pages
...He was part of it'. As an old man, Wordsworth explicitly associated that experience with the belief that, 'whatever might become of others, I should be...translated in something of the same way to heaven' as Enoch and Elijah. As he remarked: 'Nothing was more difficult for me in childhood than to admit... | |
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I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah, and almost to persuade myself that, whatever might become of others, I should be translated, in something of the same way, to heaven. With a feeling congenial to this, I was often unable to think of... 
