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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... Imagination, 33 3 Certain Good: W. B. Yeats and the Language of Autobiography, 73 4 The Lost Youth of Modern Poetry: T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, 123 Notes, 181 Index, 201 Acknowledgments My first thanks must go to Robert Belknap, who ...
... Imagination, 33 3 Certain Good: W. B. Yeats and the Language of Autobiography, 73 4 The Lost Youth of Modern Poetry: T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, 123 Notes, 181 Index, 201 Acknowledgments My first thanks must go to Robert Belknap, who ...
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... imagination his obsessive recurring topic. The form most conducive for this kind of writing—narcissistic and limited to brief moments when the imagination is stirred—is lyric.11 Reading Modernism this way has an obvious appeal for ...
... imagination his obsessive recurring topic. The form most conducive for this kind of writing—narcissistic and limited to brief moments when the imagination is stirred—is lyric.11 Reading Modernism this way has an obvious appeal for ...
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... imagination in such terms—as an internal, reality-creating capacity—until the end of his major decade. By , the strain on his autobiographical myth, and on language, to hold together his imaginative and social selves, is too ...
... imagination in such terms—as an internal, reality-creating capacity—until the end of his major decade. By , the strain on his autobiographical myth, and on language, to hold together his imaginative and social selves, is too ...
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... imagination in ways that we shall ultimately need to describe as a transformation of the world within which scientific work was done.” Scientific revolutions occur quickly because paradigm shifts always address fundamental premises ...
... imagination in ways that we shall ultimately need to describe as a transformation of the world within which scientific work was done.” Scientific revolutions occur quickly because paradigm shifts always address fundamental premises ...
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... imaginative tradition, which built on Wordsworth's visionary pose without acknowledging his psychology, collapses during the s, under pressure from a series of external and internal crises. The latter are easiest seen in the ...
... imaginative tradition, which built on Wordsworth's visionary pose without acknowledging his psychology, collapses during the s, under pressure from a series of external and internal crises. The latter are easiest seen in the ...
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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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