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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... signify the actual world. I will suggest shortly why this conclusion is anachronistic—or, at all events, why Lear's comments reflect neither the linguistic fashions of Shakespeare's time nor Shakespeare's usual practices as a writer ...
... signify the actual world. I will suggest shortly why this conclusion is anachronistic—or, at all events, why Lear's comments reflect neither the linguistic fashions of Shakespeare's time nor Shakespeare's usual practices as a writer ...
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... signify the actual world. To draw such a conclusion, I also suggested, would be anachro- nistic. Or rather, if Shakespeare has such an intuition, it in no way re- flects—as it will, almost two centuries later, in William Wordsworth ...
... signify the actual world. To draw such a conclusion, I also suggested, would be anachro- nistic. Or rather, if Shakespeare has such an intuition, it in no way re- flects—as it will, almost two centuries later, in William Wordsworth ...
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... signify things in the world . This confidence is undermined by the second paragraph , the gist of which Locke restates later with force and brevity : “ words in their primary or im- mediate signification stand for nothing but ideas in ...
... signify things in the world . This confidence is undermined by the second paragraph , the gist of which Locke restates later with force and brevity : “ words in their primary or im- mediate signification stand for nothing but ideas in ...
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... signify ideas arbitrarily , and ideas are often the unreliable signs of things , one suspects that Locke is us- ing the word “ forward ” in this passage disapprovingly . But that brings up his sec- ond position : the first proposition ...
... signify ideas arbitrarily , and ideas are often the unreliable signs of things , one suspects that Locke is us- ing the word “ forward ” in this passage disapprovingly . But that brings up his sec- ond position : the first proposition ...
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David Rosen. recognition that words signify ideas not things, his preceding contention, that words facilitate communication, is self-evident and banal. One influential com- mentator summarizes Locke's first contribution as “a few ...
David Rosen. recognition that words signify ideas not things, his preceding contention, that words facilitate communication, is self-evident and banal. One influential com- mentator summarizes Locke's first contribution as “a few ...
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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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