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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... poet's own gift, apocalyptic to the point of annihilating the outside world. “Wordsworth,” claims Harold Bloom, “had no true subject except his own subjective nature.” Such poetry, Perloff adds, inevitably privi- leges content over ...
... poet's own gift, apocalyptic to the point of annihilating the outside world. “Wordsworth,” claims Harold Bloom, “had no true subject except his own subjective nature.” Such poetry, Perloff adds, inevitably privi- leges content over ...
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... poet's personality to a wide range of stimuli , and which express , in their refusal of closure , an ideology of action and process . 15 The way is paved for construc- tivist sensibilities like Zukofsky and Olson , and language poets ...
... poet's personality to a wide range of stimuli , and which express , in their refusal of closure , an ideology of action and process . 15 The way is paved for construc- tivist sensibilities like Zukofsky and Olson , and language poets ...
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... poets— second-generation Romantic, High Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite, Decadent—who wrote during these years? The answer, I believe, speaks to the underlying me- chanics ... poet's worldview than by his ( or her ) subject matter Introduction 9.
... poets— second-generation Romantic, High Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite, Decadent—who wrote during these years? The answer, I believe, speaks to the underlying me- chanics ... poet's worldview than by his ( or her ) subject matter Introduction 9.
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... poetic claim to a unique and indepen- dent subjectivity. That claim is very much the topic of this study. If a single ... poet's right to speak. These grounds are often tangled in self-deception; yet it is precisely poetry's embrace of ...
... poetic claim to a unique and indepen- dent subjectivity. That claim is very much the topic of this study. If a single ... poet's right to speak. These grounds are often tangled in self-deception; yet it is precisely poetry's embrace of ...
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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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