Secrets of the Oracle: A History of Wisdom from Zeno to Yeats
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What is wisdom? Where does it come from? Where can we find it? And what does it mean in our lives?Shaw explores these questions by turning to the works of wisdom writers, whose words retain their meaning and transformative power even centuries after they were written.
1 Descent of the Owl: Philosophy among the Poets 152 Tennyson and Zeno: Three Infinities 393 How Poets Die to Time: The Sublime Oracle 624 Making Peace with Time: The Beautiful Oracle 845 The Ruins of Time: The Grotesque Oracle 976 Wisdom and the Logos: John's Gospel to Four Quartets 1217 Gnostic Wisdom: Parable and Koan 1278 Paradox and Oracle: Crucible versus Mirror 1409 Copy-Speech and Counter-Love: Wordsworth and Frost 15510 'A River Runs through It' and Joyce's 'The Dead' 16711 The Wise Owl: George Eliot's Arrested Wit 18712 The Serpent of Irony: Wisdom or Guile? 20613 Groucho Marx to Bernard Shaw: The Irish Bull 22814 Oracles of Wit: Oscar Wilde and Northrop Frye 24615 From Delphi to Gettysburg: Changing the Covenant 27716 Coleridge and Huxley: Experiment or Decree? 29817 Evolving Oracles: Newman, Browning, and Shakespeare 31518 An Underground Oracle: 'Look in Your Heart and Write' 336Works Cited 361Index 375
