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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... mature output . The low register is not in itself new to him : his truly juvenile , initial attempts at verse writing , such as the “ Vale of Es- thwaite ” fragment from 1787 , use Saxon words ornamentally to produce , in a manner ...
... mature output . The low register is not in itself new to him : his truly juvenile , initial attempts at verse writing , such as the “ Vale of Es- thwaite ” fragment from 1787 , use Saxon words ornamentally to produce , in a manner ...
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... mature poems, however, usually suggest a desire to be rid of thought, con- sciousness, subjectivity itself. Although the decrepit old man in “Animal Tran- quility and Decay” is said to move “with thought,” his mind has seemingly for ...
... mature poems, however, usually suggest a desire to be rid of thought, con- sciousness, subjectivity itself. Although the decrepit old man in “Animal Tran- quility and Decay” is said to move “with thought,” his mind has seemingly for ...
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... mature lyrics but the quietism of a young man half in love with easeful death. In their unconcealed desire to be through with responsibility, thought, aims—in short, the burdens of selfhood—poems like the glowworm fragment and “Animal ...
... mature lyrics but the quietism of a young man half in love with easeful death. In their unconcealed desire to be through with responsibility, thought, aims—in short, the burdens of selfhood—poems like the glowworm fragment and “Animal ...
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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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