Pindaric ode

classical Pindaric ode in particular, known for its difficulty,

Politics, Poetics, and the Pindaric Ode: 1450-1700.

Revard (English and Greek, Southern Illinois University, emerita) examines the rebirth and evolution of the Pindaric ode in Europe, from its adoption by Neoplatonic authors in fifteenth century Italy through its vernacular metamorphosis in both style and function, especially in French and English by the end of the seventeenth century.

66-70), Bruhn mentions how Messiaen structures the movement like the triad of a Pindaric ode consisting of a strophe, antistrophe, and epode, but does not acknowledge what others--Harry Halbreich, Camille Crunelle Hill, and I myself--have written on the subject.

No 'Vitae Lampada' (readily available elsewhere) but it does contain Larkin's classic Pindaric ode on mortal achievement, 'At Grass'.

De Krey, "Radicals, Reformers and Republicans: Academic Language and Political Discourse in Restoration London"; Rachel Weil, "The Family in the Exclusion Crisis: Locke versus Filmer Revisited"; Tim Harris, "Understanding Popular Politics in Restoration Britain"; Nicholas von Maltzahn, "The War in Heaven and the Miltonic Sublime"; Joshua Scodel, "The Cowleyan Pindaric Ode and Sublime Diversions"; Paulina Kewes, "Plays as Property, 1660-1710"; Alan Houston,

In "The Progress of Poesy," he produced one of the best English poems modeled on the notoriously taxing Pindaric ode. For "The Bard" he steeped himself in Celtic folklore; he was suspicious of the forgeries of Ossian, though longing to believe them genuine.

about the state of the Pindaric Ode and the cult of Ossian in

One of Gray's strophes from "The Progress of Poesy, A Pindaric Ode" (1751) is also twelve-lined, but like Coleridge's "Ode" it appears in a different sequence of tetrameter, pentameter, and alexandrine lines, and in a different typographical pattern.

In "The Progress of Poesy," Gray's elaborate use of the Pindaric ode and densely allusive language to convey the narrative of poetry's progress to Britain highlights the contrived nature of this narrative of classical inheritance.