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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... lyric derives its complexity — psychological , ethical , formal- from the extraordinary difficulty , perhaps the futility , of this effort . The low register of our language , which I also call “ plain English , ” is deeply implicated ...
... lyric derives its complexity — psychological , ethical , formal- from the extraordinary difficulty , perhaps the futility , of this effort . The low register of our language , which I also call “ plain English , ” is deeply implicated ...
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... lyric.11 Reading Modernism this way has an obvious appeal for critics who, like Bloom, approach poetry as a species of (or substitute for) religion. It is also an interpretation common among critics who locate the apocalyptic conflict ...
... lyric.11 Reading Modernism this way has an obvious appeal for critics who, like Bloom, approach poetry as a species of (or substitute for) religion. It is also an interpretation common among critics who locate the apocalyptic conflict ...
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... lyric : the brief gnomic poem , enshrining moments of Be- ing , is replaced by more open forms , such as collage , which subordinate the poet's personality to a wide range of stimuli , and which express , in their refusal of closure ...
... lyric : the brief gnomic poem , enshrining moments of Be- ing , is replaced by more open forms , such as collage , which subordinate the poet's personality to a wide range of stimuli , and which express , in their refusal of closure ...
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... lyric imagination.19 In general, American poets were faster than the British to follow Eliot into a poetry of consciousness—though, as a whole, they were less attuned than he to the underlying pathos of this gesture. In this light, I ...
... lyric imagination.19 In general, American poets were faster than the British to follow Eliot into a poetry of consciousness—though, as a whole, they were less attuned than he to the underlying pathos of this gesture. In this light, I ...
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... lyric gesture, the naked and subjective utterance, is perhaps inherently absurd. It is thus a task of poetry, especially after Wordsworth, to pro- vide grounds for the poet's authority, the poet's right to speak. These grounds are often ...
... lyric gesture, the naked and subjective utterance, is perhaps inherently absurd. It is thus a task of poetry, especially after Wordsworth, to pro- vide grounds for the poet's authority, the poet's right to speak. These grounds are often ...
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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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