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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... look at the way poets from Wordsworth to Auden try to present themselves si- multaneously as persons of power and as participating members of their communities , able to speak on public issues . In my account , the modern lyric derives ...
... look at the way poets from Wordsworth to Auden try to present themselves si- multaneously as persons of power and as participating members of their communities , able to speak on public issues . In my account , the modern lyric derives ...
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... look at a tomato one moment and receive an im- pression; we look again and receive another. Over the course of the day we see blood, a ruby, a glass of cranberry juice, a person blushing. Rather than assign a different name to each ...
... look at a tomato one moment and receive an im- pression; we look again and receive another. Over the course of the day we see blood, a ruby, a glass of cranberry juice, a person blushing. Rather than assign a different name to each ...
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... looks “ steadily at [ his ] sub- ject [ s ] , " presenting each experience with " little falsehood of description " ( 251 ) . Images , accordingly , are equivalent at this early stage to Locke's ideas , most of- ten , as in the glowworm ...
... looks “ steadily at [ his ] sub- ject [ s ] , " presenting each experience with " little falsehood of description " ( 251 ) . Images , accordingly , are equivalent at this early stage to Locke's ideas , most of- ten , as in the glowworm ...
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... look for explanations in his biography , or in the social and political climate of the 1790s , even though previous efforts along those lines have rarely been edify- ing . Olivia Smith , in The Politics of Language 1791-1819 ...
... look for explanations in his biography , or in the social and political climate of the 1790s , even though previous efforts along those lines have rarely been edify- ing . Olivia Smith , in The Politics of Language 1791-1819 ...
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... look no further than a catalogue of his works to gauge the extent of this am- bivalence: almost to a work, the poems in which he develops his mature style re- main unpublished during his life. “Animal Tranquility and Decay” indeed finds ...
... look no further than a catalogue of his works to gauge the extent of this am- bivalence: almost to a work, the poems in which he develops his mature style re- main unpublished during his life. “Animal Tranquility and Decay” indeed finds ...
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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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