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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... kind permission of Edward Mendelson , for the Estate of W. H. Auden . European rights to reprint “ A Prayer for My Daughter ” and “ Man and the Echo ” are granted by A P Watt Ltd on behalf of Michael B. Yeats . British rights to reprint ...
... kind permission of Edward Mendelson , for the Estate of W. H. Auden . European rights to reprint “ A Prayer for My Daughter ” and “ Man and the Echo ” are granted by A P Watt Ltd on behalf of Michael B. Yeats . British rights to reprint ...
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... kind of writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments when the imagination is stirred—is lyric.11 Reading Modernism this way has an obvious appeal for critics who, like Bloom, approach poetry as a species of (or substitute for) ...
... kind of writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments when the imagination is stirred—is lyric.11 Reading Modernism this way has an obvious appeal for critics who, like Bloom, approach poetry as a species of (or substitute for) ...
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... kind of claim critics ac- cept at their own risk . My own view is that the poetry of Yeats , Eliot , Auden , Pound , and Stevens was — what it was literally — post - Romantic : distinct from Romanticism, yet emerging from questions ...
... kind of claim critics ac- cept at their own risk . My own view is that the poetry of Yeats , Eliot , Auden , Pound , and Stevens was — what it was literally — post - Romantic : distinct from Romanticism, yet emerging from questions ...
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... kind of amnesia, he insists on de- tecting in it the intimations of a higher reality, the sublime. His conceit—at once an act of self-preservation and self-forgetting, a fiction that allows him to assert power, even as it means losing ...
... kind of amnesia, he insists on de- tecting in it the intimations of a higher reality, the sublime. His conceit—at once an act of self-preservation and self-forgetting, a fiction that allows him to assert power, even as it means losing ...
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... kind of parallel evolution , in which the strategy of Keats is repeated ninety years later by Yeats , Eliot , and company . Specifically : the Shelleyan imaginative tradition , which built on Wordsworth's visionary pose without ...
... kind of parallel evolution , in which the strategy of Keats is repeated ninety years later by Yeats , Eliot , and company . Specifically : the Shelleyan imaginative tradition , which built on Wordsworth's visionary pose without ...
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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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