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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... critics who, like Bloom, approach poetry as a species of (or substitute for) religion. It is also an interpretation common among critics who locate the apocalyptic conflict of subject and world in the problem, inherent in all language ...
... critics who, like Bloom, approach poetry as a species of (or substitute for) religion. It is also an interpretation common among critics who locate the apocalyptic conflict of subject and world in the problem, inherent in all language ...
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... critics , those whose only response to the last stanza of “ Coole and Ballylee " might be to add some exclamation points for emphasis . Unlike the first school , which was consolidated at least two decades after the fact , this second ...
... critics , those whose only response to the last stanza of “ Coole and Ballylee " might be to add some exclamation points for emphasis . Unlike the first school , which was consolidated at least two decades after the fact , this second ...
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... criticism. But where de Man would treat this problem as an atemporal failure of all language, I read the problem his- torically. Rather than aim at an overarching truth about the nature of discourse, I try to show the ways a series of ...
... criticism. But where de Man would treat this problem as an atemporal failure of all language, I read the problem his- torically. Rather than aim at an overarching truth about the nature of discourse, I try to show the ways a series of ...
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... criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism . To write po- etry ... critic's own subversive labor . One need only recall Joyce's Gerty MacDowell , the helpless product of all the ...
... criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism . To write po- etry ... critic's own subversive labor . One need only recall Joyce's Gerty MacDowell , the helpless product of all the ...
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... critics have routinely viewed Latinate English as reinforcing social barriers ; as early as the 15208 , William Tyndale vowed to make the Bible “ plain reading for the ploughman . " ” 4 The aristocracy , on the other hand , has just as ...
... critics have routinely viewed Latinate English as reinforcing social barriers ; as early as the 15208 , William Tyndale vowed to make the Bible “ plain reading for the ploughman . " ” 4 The aristocracy , on the other hand , has just as ...
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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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