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 |
Результаты поиска по книге
Результаты 1 – 5 из 44
Стр. 3
... reason or even ordinary awareness. Because 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 ...
... reason or even ordinary awareness. Because 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 ...
Стр. 4
... reasons I explore at length ; but ( especially ) when the low register first rises to prominence , diction comes to have a peculiar resonance , a special connotative value almost independent of syntax , and possibly independent of ...
... reasons I explore at length ; but ( especially ) when the low register first rises to prominence , diction comes to have a peculiar resonance , a special connotative value almost independent of syntax , and possibly independent of ...
Стр. 7
... reasons . 14 This questionable understanding of Romanticism ( which I will expand on shortly ) is visible also in the second school of critics , those whose only response to the last stanza of “ Coole and Ballylee " might be to add some ...
... reasons . 14 This questionable understanding of Romanticism ( which I will expand on shortly ) is visible also in the second school of critics , those whose only response to the last stanza of “ Coole and Ballylee " might be to add some ...
Стр. 10
... reasons my argument relies heavily on close reading . During these periods , finally , of lively contradiction , the revolutionary change of premises continues to exert an unseen influence on poetic practice ; but full acknowledg- ment ...
... reasons my argument relies heavily on close reading . During these periods , finally , of lively contradiction , the revolutionary change of premises continues to exert an unseen influence on poetic practice ; but full acknowledg- ment ...
Стр. 11
... reason for being, is particularly susceptible to the se- ductions of external Authority. The tensions between power and meaning (the overwhelming gift versus the desire to be a normal social being), which rend the work of Wordsworth ...
... reason for being, is particularly susceptible to the se- ductions of external Authority. The tensions between power and meaning (the overwhelming gift versus the desire to be a normal social being), which rend the work of Wordsworth ...
Содержание
1 | |
15 | |
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 |
201 | |
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
argument autobiography beauty Beggar begins Book Cambridge career century chapter claims Cold Heaven Coleridge crisis critics culture decade diction early Essays experience feelings finally Freud Green Helmet Harold Bloom human identity idiom imagination Jarrell John John Keats Juvenilia XVIa Katherine Bucknell Keats kind landscape language late later Latinate lines Locke Locke's low register lyric M. H. Abrams mature Maud Gonne meaning memory metaphor mind modern poetry Modernist myth nature object Orwell passage perhaps period philosophical plain English poem poet poet’s poetic political Prelude prose psychology Randall Jarrell reality recognize rhetoric Romantic Romanticism seems sense Shelley simple ideas social speaker stanza style suggest T. S. Eliot theory things thought Tintern Abbey tion tradition truth turn understanding University Press verse verse paragraph vision visionary voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Watershed William Wordsworth words Wordsworthian writing Yeats's York