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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... Politics and the English Language " : ( i ) Never use a metaphor , simile , or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print . ( ii ) Never use a long word where a short one will do . ( iii ) If it is possible to cut a ...
... Politics and the English Language " : ( i ) Never use a metaphor , simile , or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print . ( ii ) Never use a long word where a short one will do . ( iii ) If it is possible to cut a ...
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... political discourse and advertising copy.8 To suggest its persistence in contemporary literarydiscourse, consider briefly a second poet, writing almost four hundred years after King Lear, but strangely reminiscent of Lear on the heath ...
... political discourse and advertising copy.8 To suggest its persistence in contemporary literarydiscourse, consider briefly a second poet, writing almost four hundred years after King Lear, but strangely reminiscent of Lear on the heath ...
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... politics , Eliot's anti - Semitism — cultural theory has had little to say about mod- ern poetry.24 This lack is most likely attributable to the way culture itself is usu- ally conceived : as something larger than the individual , as ...
... politics , Eliot's anti - Semitism — cultural theory has had little to say about mod- ern poetry.24 This lack is most likely attributable to the way culture itself is usu- ally conceived : as something larger than the individual , as ...
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... political implications of plain English . From the beginnings of the debate , the low register has been embraced by both ends of the social spec- trum . On the left , often the religious left , critics have routinely viewed Latinate ...
... political implications of plain English . From the beginnings of the debate , the low register has been embraced by both ends of the social spec- trum . On the left , often the religious left , critics have routinely viewed Latinate ...
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... political , religious — without making any assertions for the idiom as such , as a mode of communication inherently superior to any other . To be sure , one finds the implication in some writers that native discourse , because more ...
... political , religious — without making any assertions for the idiom as such , as a mode of communication inherently superior to any other . To be sure , one finds the implication in some writers that native discourse , because more ...
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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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