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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... early critiques . Marshall Brown , the editor of Modern Language Quarterly , as well as two read- ers , drastically improved my account of T. S. Eliot with their recommendations . Two anonymous readers for Yale University Press are as ...
... early critiques . Marshall Brown , the editor of Modern Language Quarterly , as well as two read- ers , drastically improved my account of T. S. Eliot with their recommendations . Two anonymous readers for Yale University Press are as ...
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... 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 Modern poetry with a prelude in ...
... 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 Modern poetry with a prelude in ...
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... early in the eighteenth century , and continued . The poets revolted against the ratioci- native , the descriptive ; they thought and felt by fits , unbalanced ; they reflected . " Modernism positions itself against Romantic ...
... early in the eighteenth century , and continued . The poets revolted against the ratioci- native , the descriptive ; they thought and felt by fits , unbalanced ; they reflected . " Modernism positions itself against Romantic ...
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... early-twentieth-century Europe, it hardly fits the United States, in which “past authorities” are rarely “worshipped” and the “pursuit of a projected future” is part of the national mythos. Eliot, exactly between the cultures, could ...
... early-twentieth-century Europe, it hardly fits the United States, in which “past authorities” are rarely “worshipped” and the “pursuit of a projected future” is part of the national mythos. Eliot, exactly between the cultures, could ...
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... earliest arguments for plain English. As recounted by J. L. Moore and (preeminently) Richard Foster Jones, the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries witnessed a furious pamphlet war about the future of English. The Renaissance ...
... earliest arguments for plain English. As recounted by J. L. Moore and (preeminently) Richard Foster Jones, the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries witnessed a furious pamphlet war about the future of English. The Renaissance ...
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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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