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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... lines from King Lear : “ Thou wert better in a grave than to answer with thy uncover'd body this extremity of the skies . Is man no more than this ? Consider him well . Thou ow'st the worm no silk , the beast no hide , the sheep no wool ...
... lines from King Lear : “ Thou wert better in a grave than to answer with thy uncover'd body this extremity of the skies . Is man no more than this ? Consider him well . Thou ow'st the worm no silk , the beast no hide , the sheep no wool ...
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David Rosen. interfered with the presentation of object reality . From Bacon , the line of plain stylists descended to the scientists of the Royal Society ( Wilkins , Boyle , with Thomas Sprat reporting ) , and philosophers like Hobbes ...
David Rosen. interfered with the presentation of object reality . From Bacon , the line of plain stylists descended to the scientists of the Royal Society ( Wilkins , Boyle , with Thomas Sprat reporting ) , and philosophers like Hobbes ...
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... lines, Yeats is discerning a sharp break between his own generation, the poets who came of age during the 1890s, and the writers who emerged after 1910. One camp of critics, those partial to Stevens, could not disagree more. As Randall ...
... lines, Yeats is discerning a sharp break between his own generation, the poets who came of age during the 1890s, and the writers who emerged after 1910. One camp of critics, those partial to Stevens, could not disagree more. As Randall ...
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... line , which includes Perloff , Eva Hesse , and Hugh Kenner , begins with the Modernists themselves . 14 Eliot's well - known es- say “ The Metaphysical Poets ” sets the tone : “ The sentimental age began early in the eighteenth century ...
... line , which includes Perloff , Eva Hesse , and Hugh Kenner , begins with the Modernists themselves . 14 Eliot's well - known es- say “ The Metaphysical Poets ” sets the tone : “ The sentimental age began early in the eighteenth century ...
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... line of thought to which Locke was most hos- tile, offered the nearest approximation to a seventeenth-century theoretical de- fense of the low register. Ultimately, however, neither Verstegan nor his secular contemporaries articulated ...
... line of thought to which Locke was most hos- tile, offered the nearest approximation to a seventeenth-century theoretical de- fense of the low register. Ultimately, however, neither Verstegan nor his secular contemporaries articulated ...
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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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