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• W4379529864 abstract "Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twentyfirst Century: Micheal O’Siadhail’s The Five Quintets (I)* David F Ford A poet’s work must be the interface embracing all the wonders we’ve amassed with gratitude but also, in the light of what we’ve lost or thought we had surpassed, motifs of wisdom you with second sight will slowly re-begin to interweave. You won’t look back to try to underwrite all loss or hanker for some make-believe, but in the glare of here and now to find a vision for our world you must conceive; as Dante once prepared the modern mind you too must show a depth and breadth of view that lets the future in our now unwind.1 That is how, within an imagined conversation in the fifth and final canto of the fifth of The Five Quintets, Hannah Arendt addresses the author of the poem, Micheal O’Siadhail. It opens up a way into the poem as a whole that will be followed in this article. I will read it as an accompaniment to seeking a twenty-first century worldview2 that has the characteristics suggested by that passage: grateful appreciation for ‘all the wonders we’ve amassed’; recovery of things from the past that have been lost or wrongly superseded, in order to weave their wisdom into life now; refusal to sentimentalise or idealise the past, together with insistence on realistic assessment of it in the Studies • volume 110 • number 437 59 light of current issues; and searching for the sort of ‘depth and breadth of view/that lets the future in our now unwind’. In other words, I am looking for a worldview that has practical implications for how we move into the future from where we are now – our desires and orientations, motivations, perceptions, judgements, decisions, habits, and practices. My basic point is that, among all the religious, secular and hybrid possibilities, whatever our worldview is, we could always do with having more wisdom, and reflection on this poem can help make us wiser. Dantean daring The reference to Dante gives the most relevant historical analogy. In the fullest of many explicit references in the poem to Dante’s Divine Comedy,3 O’Siadhail addresses him in the final canto of the first quintet as ‘My Dante’, and sees him preparing the transition from the Middle Ages to the Italian Renaissance: A rich pre-modern mind allows you mix Rife thoughts retrieved with things so up-to-date In science, art or purse and politics, The cosmos in your seedbed city-state… (39)4 That points to the first four of O’Siadhail’s quintets – ‘Making’ on the arts, ‘Dealing’ on economics (‘purse’), ‘Steering’ on politics, and ‘Finding’ on the sciences – and Dante’s response to O’Siadhail adds the future orientation characteristic of both poems: I dare allow my sacred poem to leap From where we are to where we’re made to be. (39) O’Siadhail’s response to that calls Dante ‘a daring scout’ venturing across the frontier between the Middle Ages and modernity, ‘summing up what somehow opens out’. Dante’s reply names the parallel task O’Siadhail is attempting seven hundred years later: You’ve chosen to pursue the selfsame path And summing up an era work the seam Between the modern and its aftermath. (40) Studies • volume 110 • number 437 60 David F Ford All through the four haikus and sonnets of this section on Dante runs the theme that culminates in the fifth quintet, ‘Meaning’, and, above all, the most challenging meaning issue for both Dante and O’Siadhail, the question of God: You’re stretching still my mind and my desire To walk our daring God of love’s high wire. (40) Dante’s daring inspires O’Siadhail’s, and it may even be that, taking into account his twenty-first century context in Europe and North America,5 O’Siadhail should be judged the more daring of the two because of how he engages with God. Neither in English-language literary culture, nor in the dominant intellectual spheres of economics, politics, the sciences, and philosophy, has it been generally fashionable to..." @default.
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• W4379529864 title "Seeking a Wiser Worldview in the Twenty-first Century: Micheal O'Siadhail's The Five Quintets (I)" @default.
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