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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... self-slain, mur- dered by its own past strength.”13 Of most consequence to my argument, these accounts of Modernism rely on an understanding of the Romantic period itself, and of Wordsworth specifically , that I believe to be Introduction ...
... self-slain, mur- dered by its own past strength.”13 Of most consequence to my argument, these accounts of Modernism rely on an understanding of the Romantic period itself, and of Wordsworth specifically , that I believe to be Introduction ...
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David Rosen. and of Wordsworth specifically , that I believe to be unsupported either by the poetry or by the conspicuous beliefs of the poets in question . Even those Mod- ernists who find favor do so for the wrong reasons . 14 This ...
David Rosen. and of Wordsworth specifically , that I believe to be unsupported either by the poetry or by the conspicuous beliefs of the poets in question . Even those Mod- ernists who find favor do so for the wrong reasons . 14 This ...
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... Specifically : the Shelleyan 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 ...
... Specifically : the Shelleyan 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 ...
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... specifically to plain English. The unique layered vocabulary of English, in which most of the words for simple ideas (and many for substances, especially concrete particulars) are native in origin and most words for mixed modes are ...
... specifically to plain English. The unique layered vocabulary of English, in which most of the words for simple ideas (and many for substances, especially concrete particulars) are native in origin and most words for mixed modes are ...
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... specifically in his theory of meaning. The periodic sentence em- bodies for Locke the meaningful use of language; hypotaxis mimics the way the mind balances ideas, draws fine distinctions, works through abstractions, and so on. As ...
... specifically in his theory of meaning. The periodic sentence em- bodies for Locke the meaningful use of language; hypotaxis mimics the way the mind balances ideas, draws fine distinctions, works through abstractions, and so on. As ...
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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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