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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... effect. As we will see, these differences are representative of changes the poetic use of plain English underwent in the twentieth century. It says much, however, for the low register's tenacity that a poet otherwise op- posed to the ...
... effect. As we will see, these differences are representative of changes the poetic use of plain English underwent in the twentieth century. It says much, however, for the low register's tenacity that a poet otherwise op- posed to the ...
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... effect , supplanted . It is perfectly common for artifacts from an earlier dispensation to persist in lively , unacknowledged contradiction to the new , even when the new dispensation has fully taken hold ; indeed , over the course of ...
... effect , supplanted . It is perfectly common for artifacts from an earlier dispensation to persist in lively , unacknowledged contradiction to the new , even when the new dispensation has fully taken hold ; indeed , over the course of ...
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... writing , such as the “ Vale of Es- thwaite ” fragment from 1787 , use Saxon words ornamentally to produce , in a manner reminiscent of Robert Blair , ghastly and gothic effects 32 Wordsworth's Empirical Imagination 34.
... writing , such as the “ Vale of Es- thwaite ” fragment from 1787 , use Saxon words ornamentally to produce , in a manner reminiscent of Robert Blair , ghastly and gothic effects 32 Wordsworth's Empirical Imagination 34.
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David Rosen. manner reminiscent of Robert Blair , ghastly and gothic effects . A typical se- quence : as eyes , Like two ... effect of suspend- ing thought and feeling . The speaker can respond emotionally only after her at- tention has ...
David Rosen. manner reminiscent of Robert Blair , ghastly and gothic effects . A typical se- quence : as eyes , Like two ... effect of suspend- ing thought and feeling . The speaker can respond emotionally only after her at- tention has ...
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... effects ; but in fact , Wordsworth ex- plains , they make imaginative expression possible . The end of Poetry is to ... effect " beyond its proper bounds . " Meter abets the imag- ination in its distinction - making , by suggesting a ...
... effects ; but in fact , Wordsworth ex- plains , they make imaginative expression possible . The end of Poetry is to ... effect " beyond its proper bounds . " Meter abets the imag- ination in its distinction - making , by suggesting a ...
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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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