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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... HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, BOOK III As Locke admits at the end of Book II, where he develops the greater part of his epistemology, the study of language played no role in his original plan for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Book ...
... HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, BOOK III As Locke admits at the end of Book II, where he develops the greater part of his epistemology, the study of language played no role in his original plan for the Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Book ...
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... human knowledge. While Locke's presentation of “double conformity” fits into that larger scheme, his insistence on practical application seems super- fluous and inconsistent. Such readings, however, inevitably overlook the sheer force ...
... human knowledge. While Locke's presentation of “double conformity” fits into that larger scheme, his insistence on practical application seems super- fluous and inconsistent. Such readings, however, inevitably overlook the sheer force ...
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... human life and society , " brings " confusion , disorder and uncertainty into the affairs of mankind , ” and renders useless " those two great rules , religion and justice " ( III.10.12 ) . To conclude , " it is not enough a man uses ...
... human life and society , " brings " confusion , disorder and uncertainty into the affairs of mankind , ” and renders useless " those two great rules , religion and justice " ( III.10.12 ) . To conclude , " it is not enough a man uses ...
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... human function. His face, step, and gait are capable only of “one expression.”6 A man “by whom all effort seems ... humanity, From natural wisdom turn our hearts away, To natural comfort shut our eyes and ears, And, feeding on disquiet ...
... human function. His face, step, and gait are capable only of “one expression.”6 A man “by whom all effort seems ... humanity, From natural wisdom turn our hearts away, To natural comfort shut our eyes and ears, And, feeding on disquiet ...
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... human being . Here , however , Wordsworth would have us believe that his protagonist is important more for his function in the community , as a stimulus to charity , than for the state of being he embod- ies . Unfortunately , Wordsworth ...
... human being . Here , however , Wordsworth would have us believe that his protagonist is important more for his function in the community , as a stimulus to charity , than for the state of being he embod- ies . Unfortunately , Wordsworth ...
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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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