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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... passage this brief is made possible by the unique lexical structure of English, in which words for abstractions are largely borrowed, and substantives usually native. This layered arrangement is a legacy of the Norman conquest, which ...
... passage this brief is made possible by the unique lexical structure of English, in which words for abstractions are largely borrowed, and substantives usually native. This layered arrangement is a legacy of the Norman conquest, which ...
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... stand for nothing but ideas in the mind of him that uses them” (III. . , italics mine). Since ideas about the world often differ wildly from person to person (is your “red” my “red”?), these passages seem 20 Prologue.
... stand for nothing but ideas in the mind of him that uses them” (III. . , italics mine). Since ideas about the world often differ wildly from person to person (is your “red” my “red”?), these passages seem 20 Prologue.
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... passages seem to beg the question: how is any communication possible when our words inevitably refer to private ... passage disapprovingly. But that brings up his sec- ond position: the first proposition of Book III. Despite an ...
... passages seem to beg the question: how is any communication possible when our words inevitably refer to private ... passage disapprovingly. But that brings up his sec- ond position: the first proposition of Book III. Despite an ...
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... passages, so oddly anticipatory of Orwell, that Locke's confidence in the value of language reform stems not merely from an expectation of tangible gains but from an underlying conviction that language was intended to producesuch ...
... passages, so oddly anticipatory of Orwell, that Locke's confidence in the value of language reform stems not merely from an expectation of tangible gains but from an underlying conviction that language was intended to producesuch ...
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... passage simply as “language allows communication” miss the truly ontological resonance of Locke's rhetoric: it is in the nature of man, a nature perhaps beyond our understanding, to communicate through language. Locke sounds, in this ...
... passage simply as “language allows communication” miss the truly ontological resonance of Locke's rhetoric: it is in the nature of man, a nature perhaps beyond our understanding, to communicate through language. Locke sounds, in this ...
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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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