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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David Rosen. Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry David Front Cover.
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David Rosen. Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry David Rosen Yale University Press New Haven & London The first third of chapter 4 originally appeared as “
David Rosen. Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry David Rosen Yale University Press New Haven & London The first third of chapter 4 originally appeared as “
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... language : " words alone , " he twice intones , “ are certain good . " 1 This epigram , asserting not just the power ... plain English , ” is deeply implicated in this story . Each of the poets I deal with makes use of the low register's ...
... language : " words alone , " he twice intones , “ are certain good . " 1 This epigram , asserting not just the power ... plain English , ” is deeply implicated in this story . Each of the poets I deal with makes use of the low register's ...
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... plain English , " consider the following 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 ...
... plain English , " consider the following 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 ...
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... plain English with truthfulness is largely an invention of Ro- manticism, even though it has an important pre-history in the Tudor-Stuart and Augustan periods. Theories of “the plain style,” however, something quite different from what ...
... plain English with truthfulness is largely an invention of Ro- manticism, even though it has an important pre-history in the Tudor-Stuart and Augustan periods. Theories of “the plain style,” however, something quite different from what ...
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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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