Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern PoetryYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 224 páginas 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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... career, I propose that plain English is itself the locus for sev- eral competing and probably incompatible ambitions that Wordsworth has for his work: to record the natural world faithfully, to speak with authority on na- tional issues ...
... career, I propose that plain English is itself the locus for sev- eral competing and probably incompatible ambitions that Wordsworth has for his work: to record the natural world faithfully, to speak with authority on na- tional issues ...
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... career of Yeats , who begins as a Shelleyan Roman- tic , but who , after suffering a loss of purpose at the turn of the century , finds the uncomplicated peremptory assertion of poetic power impossible to sustain or believe . He is thus ...
... career of Yeats , who begins as a Shelleyan Roman- tic , but who , after suffering a loss of purpose at the turn of the century , finds the uncomplicated peremptory assertion of poetic power impossible to sustain or believe . He is thus ...
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... career, John Wilkins, to the consternation of some associates in the Royal Society and to the endless amusement of Jonathan Swift, endeavored in his Essay Towards a Real Character And a Philosophical Language (1668) to “re- duce all ...
... career, John Wilkins, to the consternation of some associates in the Royal Society and to the endless amusement of Jonathan Swift, endeavored in his Essay Towards a Real Character And a Philosophical Language (1668) to “re- duce all ...
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Wordsworths Empirical Imagination | 33 |
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 |
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