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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... poets , how- ever , beginning as early as Wordsworth , have made similar claims . In this book , I pursue two distinct but tightly intertwined arguments about language and force . It is , first and foremost , an account of the rise of ...
... poets , how- ever , beginning as early as Wordsworth , have made similar claims . In this book , I pursue two distinct but tightly intertwined arguments about language and force . It is , first and foremost , an account of the rise of ...
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... poets be- ginning with Wordsworth seized so consciously on the low register—as an ex- pression of their desires for both vatic authority and social participation—the history of plain English is also, in part, the history of post ...
... poets be- ginning with Wordsworth seized so consciously on the low register—as an ex- pression of their desires for both vatic authority and social participation—the history of plain English is also, in part, the history of post ...
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... poet, writing almost four hundred years after King Lear, but strangely reminiscent of Lear on the heath. When the rain came it came in a quick moving squall moving across the island murmuring from afar then drumming on the roof then ...
... poet, writing almost four hundred years after King Lear, but strangely reminiscent of Lear on the heath. When the rain came it came in a quick moving squall moving across the island murmuring from afar then drumming on the roof then ...
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... poet's own gift, apocalyptic to the point of annihilating the outside world. “Wordsworth,” claims Harold Bloom, “had no true subject except his own subjective nature.” Such poetry, Perloff adds, inevitably privi- leges content over ...
... poet's own gift, apocalyptic to the point of annihilating the outside world. “Wordsworth,” claims Harold Bloom, “had no true subject except his own subjective nature.” Such poetry, Perloff adds, inevitably privi- leges content over ...
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... poet's personality to a wide range of stimuli , and which express , in their refusal of closure , an ideology of action and process . 15 The way is paved for construc- tivist sensibilities like Zukofsky and Olson , and language poets ...
... poet's personality to a wide range of stimuli , and which express , in their refusal of closure , an ideology of action and process . 15 The way is paved for construc- tivist sensibilities like Zukofsky and Olson , and language poets ...
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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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