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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... associating Senecan plainness with the aims of empiricism and inductive method: the new science demanded a prose in which as few words as possible interfered with the presentation of object reality . From Bacon Introduction 3.
... associating Senecan plainness with the aims of empiricism and inductive method: the new science demanded a prose in which as few words as possible interfered with the presentation of object reality . From Bacon Introduction 3.
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... prose in general , might well be perceived a natural ally , mimetically repro- ducing the conditions of study or , through techniques of abstraction and ex- periment , echoing the critic's own subversive labor . One need only recall ...
... prose in general , might well be perceived a natural ally , mimetically repro- ducing the conditions of study or , through techniques of abstraction and ex- periment , echoing the critic's own subversive labor . One need only recall ...
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... prose as a vehicle for the imagination , be- cause of the way it creates an “ intertexture of ordinary feeling " and tends " to di- vest language in a certain degree of its reality ” ( 1802 Preface , 264 ) . Such qualities would indeed ...
... prose as a vehicle for the imagination , be- cause of the way it creates an “ intertexture of ordinary feeling " and tends " to di- vest language in a certain degree of its reality ” ( 1802 Preface , 264 ) . Such qualities would indeed ...
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... prose, however plain, remains a creature of syntax, Wordsworth's understanding of the metrical line tilts the balance to discrete images and words. One class of words in particular: Wordsworth's revolutionary contribution to English ...
... prose, however plain, remains a creature of syntax, Wordsworth's understanding of the metrical line tilts the balance to discrete images and words. One class of words in particular: Wordsworth's revolutionary contribution to English ...
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... prose ” ( 36 ) . Smith is less convincing , however , in her effort to assimilate Wordsworth to this movement . By adopting the language of rustic workers , she argues , Wordsworth asserts “ the intellectual capability of the lower and ...
... prose ” ( 36 ) . Smith is less convincing , however , in her effort to assimilate Wordsworth to this movement . By adopting the language of rustic workers , she argues , Wordsworth asserts “ the intellectual capability of the lower 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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