The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 32: Another Odicy: On the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Keats’ Odes of 1819

In this thirty-second episode of the Podcast for Social Research Core Faculty Member Rebecca Ariel Porte delivers an address for the two-hundredth anniversary of Keats’s Odes of 1819, originally recorded as a live broadcast for Montez Press Radio. This lecture considers how to read and what it means to be reading these strange poetic artifacts now–and, too, what it means to be on, to, with, for, and against the Romantic forms of poetry that go under the name of “ode.” What is an ode and why write or read one? What are the effects of an ode, its tremors in time, its odicy? What are the odd reverberations of Keats’s odicies and their objects–psyche, indolence, melancholy, nightingale, urn, autumn–after two centuries of wear and tear?

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The Podcast for Social Research, Episode 32: Another Odicy: On the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Keats' Odes of 1819

Notations

This episode of the Podcast for Social Research was edited by Nechama Winston and annotated by Shandana Waheed.

Rebecca’s note: Among other infelicities of speech, the speaker transposes, unforgivably, two syllables of the name of the scholar Kamran Javadizadeh, for which offense she, nonetheless, makes apology, begs forgiveness, will study to do better.

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Footnotes

M.H. Abrams, “Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric.”

Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940.

—-Adorno, Negative Dialectics.

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text.

Gernot Böhme, Atmospheric Architectures: The Aesthetics of Felt Spaces.

Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina (sculpture).

Manu Samriti Chander, Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century.

Lucas Cranach the Elder, Allegory of Melancholy.

Lily Gurton-Wachter, Watchwords: Romanticism and the Poetics of Attention.

Kamran Javadizadeh, “Improper Time,” RE: Keats’s 16 December 1818–4 January 1819 letter to George and Georgiana, Keats Letters Project.

John Keats, Odes of 1819: “Ode to Psyche,” “Ode on Indolence,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “To Autumn.”

—-“La Belle Dame sans Merci.”

—-Keats’s copy of Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller and James Hulbert, “Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet.”

Michèle Le Doeuff, The Philosophical Imaginary.

Marjorie Levinson, Keats’ Life of Allegory: The Origins of a Style.

Amy Lowell, John Keats.

Raqib Shaw, Allegory of Melancholy.

Elaine Showalter, “Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism.”

Daniel Tiffany, Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations.