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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... meanings of lists in Western literature. An “acknowledg- ments” section, finally, is but a list, an imperfect way to tally one's debts to the countless people who have contributed to one's work over the years. Mr. Belknap reminds us ...
... meanings of lists in Western literature. An “acknowledg- ments” section, finally, is but a list, an imperfect way to tally one's debts to the countless people who have contributed to one's work over the years. Mr. Belknap reminds us ...
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... meaning . As it happens , even the most vehement seventeenth - century propo- nents of the plain style favored a Latinate vocabulary and classical hypotaxis . In the low register , however , words alone are certain good . Over the ...
... meaning . As it happens , even the most vehement seventeenth - century propo- nents of the plain style favored a Latinate vocabulary and classical hypotaxis . In the low register , however , words alone are certain good . Over the ...
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... meaning (the overwhelming gift versus the desire to be a normal social being), which rend the work of Wordsworth, Yeats, and even Eliot, find some (as we shall see, rather ambivalent) resolution in Auden. With Auden, too, my history of ...
... meaning (the overwhelming gift versus the desire to be a normal social being), which rend the work of Wordsworth, Yeats, and even Eliot, find some (as we shall see, rather ambivalent) resolution in Auden. With Auden, too, my history of ...
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... meaning—may well recall deconstructive criticism. But where de Man would treat this problem as an atemporal failure of all language, I read the problem his- torically. Rather than aim at an overarching truth about the nature of ...
... meaning—may well recall deconstructive criticism. But where de Man would treat this problem as an atemporal failure of all language, I read the problem his- torically. Rather than aim at an overarching truth about the nature of ...
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... meaning , when she bouroweth no counterfeitness of other tunges to attire her self withall , but useth plainlie her own with such shift , as nature craft , experiens , and folowing of other excellent doth lead her unto . ” One detects ...
... meaning , when she bouroweth no counterfeitness of other tunges to attire her self withall , but useth plainlie her own with such shift , as nature craft , experiens , and folowing of other excellent doth lead her unto . ” One detects ...
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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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