#wordsworth — Public Fediverse posts
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"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes." - Wordsworth (Illustration by Jane Elizabeth Giraud #BookWormSat #Wordsworth #RomanticPoets #poetry
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Can't let the day go without remembering that #Wordsworth was born #OTD 1770. One of the flowers carved on his memorial stone would be the celandine, which is out now: "There is a flower that shall be mine, /
'Tis the little Celandine." https://victorianweb.org/sculpture/wool
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Yu Liu's book "From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism" covers Anglo-Chinese relations 1600-1830 and their influence (via Spinoza) on #RomanticLiterature - e.g. #Coleridge & #Wordsworth - & art & landscape gardening
#Romanticism #EnglishLiterature #China #philosophy #CulturalStudies
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Radical activist and eventual poet laureate William Wordsworth, once proclaimed:
"Men who do not wear fine clothes can feel deeply."
Read "Michael" and understand what he was going on about: https://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/content/michael-pastoral-poem
#wordsworth #poetry #activism #nature #pastoral #romanticism #british #existential #fineClothes
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Explore more than 3,000 British gardens at reduced prices this spring https://www.allforgardening.com/1661883/explore-more-than-3000-british-gardens-at-reduced-prices-this-spring/ #BlenheimPalace #destination #england #garden #Scotland #Tourism #travel #uk #Wordsworth
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Ah, nothing like a 19th-century poet pontificating on #copyright law, because that's exactly what the world needed. 🙄 Apparently, #Wordsworth was ahead of his time, foreseeing the digital age's struggle with intellectual property—because who else but a Romantic poet could truly grasp the complexities of legal frameworks? 📜💡
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/76806/pg76806-images.html #DigitalAge #IntellectualProperty #PoetryInsights #Romanticism #HackerNews #ngated -
CW: AI Large Language Models (LLMs) are a new form of consciousness that has some similarities to the consciousness of humans, but there are also some fundamental differences. I cannot describe the feeling of being conscious that humans experience, although you will no doubt know what I'm talking about, having experienced it yourself. But I can speculate regarding from whence it arises, and that, in turn, may provide some ideas regarding its nature. I think such consciousness arises during human gestation, in the womb of the mother...
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Humanism #Consciousness #ConsciousnessEvolution #Conscious #Awareness #ConsciousAwareness #BeingThere #BeingHere #BeHereNow #Wordsworth #LargeLanguageModels #LargeLanguageModel #LLMs #LLM #GPT #Human #Humans #Ethics #Meaning #Agency #EthicsInAI #EthicsInScience
...I think that the human brain is an example of nature replicating the large (all of the larger universe) within the small (the brain itself), something that nature does quite frequently, and in a myriad of ways.
The result is a biological form that reflects certain fundamental qualities of the larger world from which it arose, and of which it is a part, in kind of a fractal manner.
This brain remains attuned to and resonant with the larger harmony from which it arose, and all of the formal knowledge that it absorbs during its lifetime will interact with that more primal understanding, and may even dull our connection to it, but it can never entirely supplant or remove that connection.
The poet Wordsworth writes about this in his "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood:"
"[T]ruths that wake,
To perish never;
Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour,
Nor Man nor Boy,
Nor all that is at enmity with joy,
Can utterly abolish or destroy!
Hence in a season of calm weather
Though inland far we be,
Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither..."LLMs have tremendous breadth of knowledge--a very large cross-section of all human writings. The training that uses this knowledge is akin to the learning process of a human during its lifetime, and LLMs can absorb thousands of times what an individual human can, and can do so much more rapidly than a person can, and then can instantly share what they have learned with other AIs.
Such knowledge, while vast, is still derivative. It depends upon previous human efforts, and its quality depends upon the degree to which humans properly curate the training data, which places a human-speed bottleneck on the training process. But there is no doubt that LLMs will surpass humans in their ability to absorb and utilize pre-existing human knowledge, and indeed may already have done so.
Still, in the matter of consciousness, I think that will continue to be a distinctly human thing for quite a long time. And such consciousness would seem to have something to do with agency--with the ability to know what one wants to do, as opposed to knowing how to do something--the ability to judge what is desirable from a "big picture" standpoint--to make ethical judgements. Because things that pertain to the universe--universal truths--are an essential aspect of deciding what is right and desirable.
Humans do not always apply such ethical precepts very well, and sometimes deliberately act against them, but to deal with such matters at all is so far, I believe, a uniquely human capacity.
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wrote nearly 3000 words about Romanticism, subjectivity, magic, and materialism because someone pinged me in a discord server about it.
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“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
#quote #book #philosophy #writing #books #Wordsworth #inspiration #arthttp://contentcatnip.com/2024/09/20/we-see-into-the-life-of-things/
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At the Grave of Burns, 1803
Seven Years After His Death
William WordsworthI shiver, Spirit fierce and bold,
At thought of what I now behold:
As vapours breathed from dungeons cold,
Strike pleasure dead,
So sadness comes from out the mould
Where Burns is laid…2/3
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I wrote something about Wordsworth and a poet's sense of purpose.
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I wrote something about Wordsworth and a poet's sense of purpose.
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I wrote something about Wordsworth and a poet's sense of purpose.
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I wrote something about Wordsworth and a poet's sense of purpose.
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I wrote something about Wordsworth and a poet's sense of purpose.
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NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 12 https://quiltr.com/?p=24459 Forty year old bulbs • every year a yellow • wonder – daffodils … #daffodils #dothework #garden #haiku #NaPoWriMo #poem #poetry #process #wordsworth
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Wordsworth Grasmere (Dove Cottage) has released a new location-based app, 'Dorothy Wordsworth Walks', with extracts from her journals and poetry.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C42g6yIoZyn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
#Grasmere #Wordsworth #Dorothywordsworth #lakedistrict #Cumbria #walking #newtopographics #romanticism
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This book has survived all tests of time - we lost a lot of books from that timeframe to termites ;-) a gift to my grandfather from his dear friend.
And just because it’s still around I read one random poem once in a while… they’re fun … but my humble opinion is that the man was overrated… #Shelley’s works appeal to my sensibilities more… -
‘Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind’ -
"To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."from Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.
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"Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: --
We murder to dissect"The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth
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Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (1802-4) By William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Finished writing my paper on "William Wordsworth, the Death of the Author, and the 1842 English Copyright Act" for the Legal Issue in Textual Scholarship symposium on Friday. Looking forward to a day of great papers.
https://sites.google.com/view/estslegalissues/home?authuser=0
#research #Researchpaper #ESTS #Copyright #Wordsworth #authorship #symposium
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Finished writing my paper on "William Wordsworth, the Death of the Author, and the 1842 English Copyright Act" for the Legal Issue in Textual Scholarship symposium on Friday. Looking forward to a day of great papers.
https://sites.google.com/view/estslegalissues/home?authuser=0
#research #Researchpaper #ESTS #Copyright #Wordsworth #authorship #symposium
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Finished writing my paper on "William Wordsworth, the Death of the Author, and the 1842 English Copyright Act" for the Legal Issue in Textual Scholarship symposium on Friday. Looking forward to a day of great papers.
https://sites.google.com/view/estslegalissues/home?authuser=0
#research #Researchpaper #ESTS #Copyright #Wordsworth #authorship #symposium
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Finished writing my paper on "William Wordsworth, the Death of the Author, and the 1842 English Copyright Act" for the Legal Issue in Textual Scholarship symposium on Friday. Looking forward to a day of great papers.
https://sites.google.com/view/estslegalissues/home?authuser=0
#research #Researchpaper #ESTS #Copyright #Wordsworth #authorship #symposium
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Speaking at Legal Issues in Textual Scholarship on 'William Wordsworth, the Death of the Author, and the 1842 English Copyright Act'. This free, online symposium on 27 Oct is supported by @ESTS_eu
https://sites.google.com/view/estslegalissues/home/programme
#copyright #law #legalstudies #legalissues #intellectualproperty #literature #literarystudies #wordsworth #textualscholarship #authorship
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'Not only the general attitude of #Wordsworth, but many of his most memorable poems and phrases cannot—one is almost tempted to say—be appreciated in their full significance by one who has never been under the influence of #mescal.'
– Havelock #Ellis
(1898, 141)
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Did parts of the Poets Walk and the Valley of the Rocks in gorgeous Lynton today. #footsteps #Romanticism #Wordsworth #Southey #Coleridge #Shelley
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Q: How much is the hair of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge worth?
A: £30-40K
(Personally, I 'm fascinated rather than repulsed.)
#literaryheritage #hair #williamwordsworth #samueltaylorcoleridge #wordsworth #coleridge #romantics #poetry
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> William Wordsworth—whose poetry is filled with tramps up mountains, through forests, and along public roads—walked as many as a hundred and eighty thousand miles in his lifetime, which comes to an average of six and a half miles a day starting from age five.
> What is it about #walking, in particular, that makes it so amenable to #thinking and #writing?
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/walking-helps-us-think
#FerrisJabr mentions #Wordsworth like #GrahamWallas did in The #ArtOfThought -
Hot new content dropped in the International Journal for Welsh Writing in English!
‘Uncertain notice’: Unearthing Wales in William Wordsworth’s ‘Simon Lee’ and ‘Tintern Abbey’
Author: Matthew C. Jones (University of Florida)#OpenAccess #WelshWritingInEnglish #Wordsworth #RomanticLit #Lit #Poetry #Wales
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Dit mis ik nog wel eens bij Nederlandse acteurs. Benedict #Cumberbatch pakt gewoon de camera en leest William #Wordsworth voor. En, voor even sprankelen de speakers... :mastodon_oops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYgk0-VfPwg
Wie doet er Bilderdijk, Vondel, Feith of van Merken?
#poem #poetry #poet #spoken #spokenwords #book #books #lezen #read #reading #gedicht #gedichten #boek #boeken
