Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern PoetryYale University Press, 1.10.2008 г. - 224 страници 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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... Imagination, 33 3 Certain Good: W. B. Yeats and the Language of Autobiography, 73 4 The Lost Youth of Modern Poetry: T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, 123 Notes, 181 Index, 201 Acknowledgments My first thanks must go to Robert Belknap, who ...
... Imagination, 33 3 Certain Good: W. B. Yeats and the Language of Autobiography, 73 4 The Lost Youth of Modern Poetry: T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, 123 Notes, 181 Index, 201 Acknowledgments My first thanks must go to Robert Belknap, who ...
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... imagination his obsessive recurring topic. The form most conducive for this kind of writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments when the imagination is stirred—is lyric.11 Reading Modernism this way has an obvious appeal for ...
... imagination his obsessive recurring topic. The form most conducive for this kind of writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments when the imagination is stirred—is lyric.11 Reading Modernism this way has an obvious appeal for ...
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... imagination—and the force of plain English—at a moment of deep personal and professional doubt, a moment annihilating to the everyday self. The “great decade” (1797–1807) that follows is spent negotiating between his desire on the one ...
... imagination—and the force of plain English—at a moment of deep personal and professional doubt, a moment annihilating to the everyday self. The “great decade” (1797–1807) that follows is spent negotiating between his desire on the one ...
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... imagination in ways that we shall ultimately need to describe as a transforma- tion of the world within which scientific work was done.” Scientific revolutions occur quickly because paradigm shifts always address fundamental premises ...
... imagination in ways that we shall ultimately need to describe as a transforma- tion of the world within which scientific work was done.” Scientific revolutions occur quickly because paradigm shifts always address fundamental premises ...
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... imaginative tradition , which built on Wordsworth's visionary pose without acknowledging his psychology , collapses during the 1890s , under pressure from a series of external and internal crises . The latter are easiest seen in the ...
... imaginative tradition , which built on Wordsworth's visionary pose without acknowledging his psychology , collapses during the 1890s , under pressure from a series of external and internal crises . The latter are easiest seen in the ...
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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 |
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