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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... thought - executing fires , Vaunt - couriers of oak - cleaving thunderbolts , Singe my white head ! ( III.ii.4—6 ) -his speech here is plain and bitter . Most of the few , scattered polysyllables ges- ture toward either the storm ...
... thought - executing fires , Vaunt - couriers of oak - cleaving thunderbolts , Singe my white head ! ( III.ii.4—6 ) -his speech here is plain and bitter . Most of the few , scattered polysyllables ges- ture toward either the storm ...
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... not for concealing or preventing thought . If you simplify your En- glish , you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy .... When you make a stupid ... remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself ” 4 Introduction.
... not for concealing or preventing thought . If you simplify your En- glish , you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy .... When you make a stupid ... remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself ” 4 Introduction.
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... thought and felt by fits , unbalanced ; they reflected . " Modernism positions itself against Romantic sentimentality and " rumination " ; Modernism is indeed anti - Romanticism . As one might expect , Pound echoes Eliot's point without ...
... thought and felt by fits , unbalanced ; they reflected . " Modernism positions itself against Romantic sentimentality and " rumination " ; Modernism is indeed anti - Romanticism . As one might expect , Pound echoes Eliot's point without ...
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... thoughts within the contemplation of those things that are within the reach of our un- derstandings, and launch not out into that abyss of darkness (where we have not eyes to see, nor faculties to perceive any thing), out of a ...
... thoughts within the contemplation of those things that are within the reach of our un- derstandings, and launch not out into that abyss of darkness (where we have not eyes to see, nor faculties to perceive any thing), out of a ...
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... thought Locke would take it upon himself to refute . The exiled recusant Richard Ver- stegan is probably best remembered today for his wayward attempts to prove the great antiquity of Old English . Our tongue , we know , was spoken at ...
... thought Locke would take it upon himself to refute . The exiled recusant Richard Ver- stegan is probably best remembered today for his wayward attempts to prove the great antiquity of Old English . Our tongue , we know , was spoken at ...
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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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