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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... nature.” Such poetry, Perloff adds, inevitably privi- leges content over structure, the poet's own imagination his obsessive recurring topic. The form most conducive for this kind of writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments ...
... nature.” Such poetry, Perloff adds, inevitably privi- leges content over structure, the poet's own imagination his obsessive recurring topic. The form most conducive for this kind of writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments ...
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... natural detail , wild - fowl bathing in a hole in the ice , etc. , and this talent , or the fruits of this talent , he buried in a desert of bleatings . ” Modern po- etry replaces Wordsworthian " bleatings " ( the very meditativeness ...
... natural detail , wild - fowl bathing in a hole in the ice , etc. , and this talent , or the fruits of this talent , he buried in a desert of bleatings . ” Modern po- etry replaces Wordsworthian " bleatings " ( the very meditativeness ...
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... natural world faithfully, to speak with authority on na- tional issues, to convey moments of uncanny but possibly ... nature in the deep past, the world of his childhood, while leaving his adult self intact. Language, the low register ...
... natural world faithfully, to speak with authority on na- tional issues, to convey moments of uncanny but possibly ... nature in the deep past, the world of his childhood, while leaving his adult self intact. Language, the low register ...
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... nature of plain English itself. Once valued as an ac- curate signifier of the world, plain English, by the middle of the twentieth cen- tury, has become a counter in a language game: an indicator of honest inten- tions. Whereas my ...
... nature of plain English itself. Once valued as an ac- curate signifier of the world, plain English, by the middle of the twentieth cen- tury, has become a counter in a language game: an indicator of honest inten- tions. Whereas my ...
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... natural ally , mimetically repro- ducing the conditions of study or , through techniques of abstraction and ex- periment , echoing the critic's own subversive labor . One need only recall Joyce's Gerty MacDowell , the helpless product ...
... natural ally , mimetically repro- ducing the conditions of study or , through techniques of abstraction and ex- periment , echoing the critic's own subversive labor . One need only recall Joyce's Gerty MacDowell , the helpless product ...
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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 |
Notes | 181 |
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