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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... poets , how- ever , beginning as early as Wordsworth , have made similar claims . In this book , I pursue two distinct but tightly intertwined arguments about language and force . It is , first and foremost , an account of the rise of ...
... poets , how- ever , beginning as early as Wordsworth , have made similar claims . In this book , I pursue two distinct but tightly intertwined arguments about language and force . It is , first and foremost , an account of the rise of ...
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... poets be- ginning with Wordsworth seized so consciously on the low register—as an ex- pression of their desires for both vatic authority and social participation—the history of plain English is also, in part, the history of post ...
... poets be- ginning with Wordsworth seized so consciously on the low register—as an ex- pression of their desires for both vatic authority and social participation—the history of plain English is also, in part, the history of post ...
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... poetic use of plain English underwent in the twentieth century. It says much, however, for the low register's tenacity that a poet otherwise op- posed to the British colonial legacy would draw on this idiomto convey the truth of his ...
... poetic use of plain English underwent in the twentieth century. It says much, however, for the low register's tenacity that a poet otherwise op- posed to the British colonial legacy would draw on this idiomto convey the truth of his ...
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... poets who came of age during the 1890s, and the writers who emerged after 1910. One camp of critics, those partial ... poet's own gift, apocalyptic to the point of annihilating the outside world. “Wordsworth,” claims Harold Bloom, “had ...
... poets who came of age during the 1890s, and the writers who emerged after 1910. One camp of critics, those partial ... poet's own gift, apocalyptic to the point of annihilating the outside world. “Wordsworth,” claims Harold Bloom, “had ...
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... Poets ” sets the tone : “ The sentimental age began early in the eighteenth century , and continued . The poets revolted against the ratioci- native , the descriptive ; they thought and felt by fits , unbalanced ; they reflected ...
... Poets ” sets the tone : “ The sentimental age began early in the eighteenth century , and continued . The poets revolted against the ratioci- native , the descriptive ; they thought and felt by fits , unbalanced ; they reflected ...
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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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