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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... essay “ Politics and the English Language " : ( i ) Never use a metaphor , simile , or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print . ( ii ) Never use a long word where a short one will do . ( iii ) If it is possible to ...
... essay “ Politics and the English Language " : ( i ) Never use a metaphor , simile , or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print . ( ii ) Never use a long word where a short one will do . ( iii ) If it is possible to ...
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... of Mar- jorie Perloff's essay “Pound/Stevens: whose era?”10 Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens, that is, are seen by each camp as expressing the qualities most essential to Modern poetry; the two iconic poets, in turn, are Introduction 5.
... of Mar- jorie Perloff's essay “Pound/Stevens: whose era?”10 Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens, that is, are seen by each camp as expressing the qualities most essential to Modern poetry; the two iconic poets, in turn, are Introduction 5.
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... Essay can be read fruitfully as a literary text, my analysis focuses on his arguments; it is these arguments, both linguis- tic and epistemic, that later influence Wordsworth.22 I then approach each of the four central poets from a ...
... Essay can be read fruitfully as a literary text, my analysis focuses on his arguments; it is these arguments, both linguis- tic and epistemic, that later influence Wordsworth.22 I then approach each of the four central poets from a ...
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... Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Book III became necessary as, during the composition, he discerned the “close . . . connection between ideas and words” (Essay, II.33.19).7 He came to see, in fact, that words and ideas can often be ...
... Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Book III became necessary as, during the composition, he discerned the “close . . . connection between ideas and words” (Essay, II.33.19).7 He came to see, in fact, that words and ideas can often be ...
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... Essay deals with the materials and scope of human knowledge. While Locke's presentation of “double conformity” fits into that larger scheme, his insistence on practical application seems super- fluous and inconsistent. Such readings ...
... Essay deals with the materials and scope of human knowledge. While Locke's presentation of “double conformity” fits into that larger scheme, his insistence on practical application seems super- fluous and inconsistent. Such readings ...
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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 |
Index | 201 |
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