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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... Poems , revised , edited by Richard J. Finneran . Copyright © 1924 by The Macmillan Company ; copyright renewed © 1952 by Bertha Georgie Yeats . Excerpts from " Coole and Ballylee , 1931 , ” and “ A Dialogue of Self and Soul ...
... Poems , revised , edited by Richard J. Finneran . Copyright © 1924 by The Macmillan Company ; copyright renewed © 1952 by Bertha Georgie Yeats . Excerpts from " Coole and Ballylee , 1931 , ” and “ A Dialogue of Self and Soul ...
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David Rosen. Introduction In " The Song of the Happy Shepherd , ” the poem Yeats chose to print first in his Collected Poems , he shows a striking faith in the basic au- thority of language : " words alone , " he twice intones , “ are ...
David Rosen. Introduction In " The Song of the Happy Shepherd , ” the poem Yeats chose to print first in his Collected Poems , he shows a striking faith in the basic au- thority of language : " words alone , " he twice intones , “ are ...
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... poetic use of plain English underwent in the twentieth century. It says much, however, for the low register's ... poets, plain English has remained so seductive. As the sequence of chapters suggests, my argument hinges on an account of ...
... poetic use of plain English underwent in the twentieth century. It says much, however, for the low register's ... poets, plain English has remained so seductive. As the sequence of chapters suggests, my argument hinges on an account of ...
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... poets in question . Even those Mod- ernists who find favor do so for the wrong reasons . 14 This questionable ... poem , enshrining moments of Be- ing , is replaced by more open forms , such as collage , which subordinate the ...
... poets in question . Even those Mod- ernists who find favor do so for the wrong reasons . 14 This questionable ... poem , enshrining moments of Be- ing , is replaced by more open forms , such as collage , which subordinate the ...
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... poets— second-generation Romantic, High Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite, Decadent—who wrote during these years? The answer ... poetic psychology, his new way of claim- ing authority as a poet, produced equally innovative ideas about style and ...
... poets— second-generation Romantic, High Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite, Decadent—who wrote during these years? The answer ... poetic psychology, his new way of claim- ing authority as a poet, produced equally innovative ideas about style and ...
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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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