Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern PoetryYale University Press, 1 окт. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 224 DIVIn this engaging book David Rosen offers a radically new account of Modern poetry and revises our understanding of its relation to Romanticism. British poets from Wordsworth to Auden attempted to present themselves simultaneously as persons of power and as moral voices in their communities. The modern lyric derives its characteristic complexities—psychological, ethical, formal—from the extraordinary difficulty of this effort. The low register of our language—a register of short, concrete, native words arranged in simple syntax—is deeply implicated in this story. Rosen shows how the peculiar reputation of “plain English” for truthfulness is employed by Modern poets to conceal the rift between their (probably irreconcilable) ambitions for themselves. With a deep appreciation for poetic accomplishment and a wonderful iconoclasm, Rosen sheds new light on the innovative as well as the self-deceptive aspects of Modern poetry. This book alters our understanding of the history of poetry in the English language./div |
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... attempts to articulate a theory of po- etry not grounded in biography or visionary experience . It is not my purpose to replace one genealogy with another , Keats supplanting Shelley as the Moderns ' most important direct " influence ...
... attempts to articulate a theory of po- etry not grounded in biography or visionary experience . It is not my purpose to replace one genealogy with another , Keats supplanting Shelley as the Moderns ' most important direct " influence ...
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David Rosen. Chapter traces Yeats's attempts to salvage a visionary authority, without bas- ing his claims on personal history. The chapter is thus, like its predecessor on Wordsworth, a study in autobiography, or autobiography evaded ...
David Rosen. Chapter traces Yeats's attempts to salvage a visionary authority, without bas- ing his claims on personal history. The chapter is thus, like its predecessor on Wordsworth, a study in autobiography, or autobiography evaded ...
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... attempts to prove the great antiquity of Old English . Our tongue , we know , was spoken at the Tower of Babel , because the word babble , to talk incoherently , survives in the lexicon ; more creative etymologies follow . " If Teutonic ...
... attempts to prove the great antiquity of Old English . Our tongue , we know , was spoken at the Tower of Babel , because the word babble , to talk incoherently , survives in the lexicon ; more creative etymologies follow . " If Teutonic ...
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... attempts to salvage a workable theory of language . If his conclusions are not always convincing to his critics , they are of consequence for my larger argument . It is not my purpose to present an extended reading of Locke's philosophy ...
... attempts to salvage a workable theory of language . If his conclusions are not always convincing to his critics , they are of consequence for my larger argument . It is not my purpose to present an extended reading of Locke's philosophy ...
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... attempts to explain the apparent contradiction at the heart of his system are uncharacteristically vague—not because of their obscurity but because their vagueness is almost certainly intentional. Although, he writes, words can signify ...
... attempts to explain the apparent contradiction at the heart of his system are uncharacteristically vague—not because of their obscurity but because their vagueness is almost certainly intentional. Although, he writes, words can signify ...
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Wordsworths Empirical Imagination | 33 |
Certain Good W B Yeats and the Language of Autobiography | 73 |
The Lost Youth of Modern Poetry T S Eliot W H Auden | 123 |
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