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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... diction comes to have a peculiar resonance , a special connotative value almost independent of syntax , and possibly independent of meaning . This sounds perilously close to mysticism ; but how else to explain the seem- ingly baseless ...
... diction comes to have a peculiar resonance , a special connotative value almost independent of syntax , and possibly independent of meaning . This sounds perilously close to mysticism ; but how else to explain the seem- ingly baseless ...
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... diction, he did so on grounds quite dissimilar to those claimed by his seventeenth-century forerunners. The last three chapters of this study examine the nature and consequences of Wordsworth's revolution, espe- cially his legacy to ...
... diction, he did so on grounds quite dissimilar to those claimed by his seventeenth-century forerunners. The last three chapters of this study examine the nature and consequences of Wordsworth's revolution, espe- cially his legacy to ...
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... to supply new foundations for the given. His own diction is highly Latinate, and his syntax, in conformity to classical models, is often suspended and ornate. a Indeed, in Book III, chapter 7, on “Particles,” he 26 Prologue.
... to supply new foundations for the given. His own diction is highly Latinate, and his syntax, in conformity to classical models, is often suspended and ornate. a Indeed, in Book III, chapter 7, on “Particles,” he 26 Prologue.
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... diction as easily as Latinisms in suspended discourse, but Locke, living in the golden age of the Latinate periodic sentence, does not consider the possibility. More to the point, his goal is to establish the widest applicability for ...
... diction as easily as Latinisms in suspended discourse, but Locke, living in the golden age of the Latinate periodic sentence, does not consider the possibility. More to the point, his goal is to establish the widest applicability for ...
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... diction and to filter Locke through French theories of language that Locke himself would scarcely recognize.1 Wordsworth is a far more faithful child of empiri- cism , however , than any of his contemporaries ; if he indeed subverts ...
... diction and to filter Locke through French theories of language that Locke himself would scarcely recognize.1 Wordsworth is a far more faithful child of empiri- cism , however , than any of his contemporaries ; if he indeed subverts ...
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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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