Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern PoetryYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 224 من الصفحات 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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... W. H. Auden ; " September 1 , 1939 , " copyright 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden , from Collected Poems by W. H. Auden . Used by permission of Random House , Inc. Excerpts from Auden's Juvenilia are reprinted by kind permission of ...
... W. H. Auden ; " September 1 , 1939 , " copyright 1940 and renewed 1968 by W. H. Auden , from Collected Poems by W. H. Auden . Used by permission of Random House , Inc. Excerpts from Auden's Juvenilia are reprinted by kind permission of ...
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... W. H. Auden, 123 Notes, 181 Index, 201 Acknowledgments My first thanks must go to Robert Belknap, who Contents.
... W. H. Auden, 123 Notes, 181 Index, 201 Acknowledgments My first thanks must go to Robert Belknap, who Contents.
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... W. H. Auden, who offers a third and to my mind more compelling possibility: the poet of consciousness as propagandist. A poetry of conscious- ness, lacking a strong inner reason for being, is particularly susceptible to the se- ductions ...
... W. H. Auden, who offers a third and to my mind more compelling possibility: the poet of consciousness as propagandist. A poetry of conscious- ness, lacking a strong inner reason for being, is particularly susceptible to the se- ductions ...
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David Rosen. in the chapters that follow , when examining W. H. Auden and , above all , W. B. Yeats . Amidst the variety of positions staked out in the Renaissance language wars , one can easily overlook the near absence of truly ...
David Rosen. in the chapters that follow , when examining W. H. Auden and , above all , W. B. Yeats . Amidst the variety of positions staked out in the Renaissance language wars , one can easily overlook the near absence of truly ...
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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 |
Index | 201 |
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