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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... relation between Romantic and Modern poetry. This relation has been a matter of bitter debate since the time of Yeats and Eliot, a debate that has, if anything, intensified in recent decades. The mutually hostile camps into which most ...
... relation between Romantic and Modern poetry. This relation has been a matter of bitter debate since the time of Yeats and Eliot, a debate that has, if anything, intensified in recent decades. The mutually hostile camps into which most ...
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... relation between words , ideas , and things — is all too obvious . Accordingly , Locke undertakes in Book III to give a philosophically consis- tent account of how language works . He begins with two propositions that seem , in ...
... relation between words , ideas , and things — is all too obvious . Accordingly , Locke undertakes in Book III to give a philosophically consis- tent account of how language works . He begins with two propositions that seem , in ...
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... relation of words to ideas is completely arbitrary . The interest of contemporaries like Verstegan ( or Leibniz ) in ... relations between the two dyads word / idea and idea / thing , Locke attempts to salvage a workable theory of ...
... relation of words to ideas is completely arbitrary . The interest of contemporaries like Verstegan ( or Leibniz ) in ... relations between the two dyads word / idea and idea / thing , Locke attempts to salvage a workable theory of ...
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... relations.”14 That a man so committed to the New Sci- ence should have undertaken this task says much about the intellectual climate in England when Locke was first conceiving his Essay. It may be useful to read Book III not simply as a ...
... relations.”14 That a man so committed to the New Sci- ence should have undertaken this task says much about the intellectual climate in England when Locke was first conceiving his Essay. It may be useful to read Book III not simply as a ...
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... relation is unitary, Locke re- veals it to be unsteady and dual. The result is an ultimate (and in Aarsleff's opin- ion, a fortunate) breach between language and world. Conventionalism, how- ever, was quite prominent during the Middle ...
... relation is unitary, Locke re- veals it to be unsteady and dual. The result is an ultimate (and in Aarsleff's opin- ion, a fortunate) breach between language and world. Conventionalism, how- ever, was quite prominent during the Middle ...
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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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