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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... verse ; yet his poetry lacks , perhaps because of this very comfort , his predecessors ' psycholog- ical complexity . The tendency of contemporary theory I am most ambivalent about , ironi- cally , is the one most prevalent in the study ...
... verse ; yet his poetry lacks , perhaps because of this very comfort , his predecessors ' psycholog- ical complexity . The tendency of contemporary theory I am most ambivalent about , ironi- cally , is the one most prevalent in the study ...
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... verse ” ( 14 ) . “ In my opinion it is one special prayse , of many whych are dew to this Poete , that he hath laboured to restore , as to their rightfull heritage such good and naturall English words , as have ben long time out of use ...
... verse ” ( 14 ) . “ In my opinion it is one special prayse , of many whych are dew to this Poete , that he hath laboured to restore , as to their rightfull heritage such good and naturall English words , as have ben long time out of use ...
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... verse found itself increasingly challenged as a source of wisdom by the new science , it turned away from Lockean ideas of clarity to embrace greater and greater , Latinate complexity.24 The novel , a genre with fewer pre- tenses to ...
... verse found itself increasingly challenged as a source of wisdom by the new science , it turned away from Lockean ideas of clarity to embrace greater and greater , Latinate complexity.24 The novel , a genre with fewer pre- tenses to ...
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... verse . Not coincidentally , these lines also find Wordsworth first using the plain , low register of English in a way that I take to be characteristic of his mature output . The low register is not in itself new to him : his truly ...
... verse . Not coincidentally , these lines also find Wordsworth first using the plain , low register of English in a way that I take to be characteristic of his mature output . The low register is not in itself new to him : his truly ...
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... verse is typically des- titute of both metaphors and the “ personifications of abstract ideas ” ( 250 ) . This revision of Locke distinguishes Wordsworth from his entire generation Wordsworth's Empirical Imagination 37.
... verse is typically des- titute of both metaphors and the “ personifications of abstract ideas ” ( 250 ) . This revision of Locke distinguishes Wordsworth from his entire generation Wordsworth's Empirical Imagination 37.
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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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