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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... idiom consisting mainly of short, concrete, native words, purged of abstractions and low on foreign borrowings, deployed in simple syntax, would have such an appeal to writers of a later era: the power this idiom has to command belief ...
... idiom consisting mainly of short, concrete, native words, purged of abstractions and low on foreign borrowings, deployed in simple syntax, would have such an appeal to writers of a later era: the power this idiom has to command belief ...
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... idiom is not quite Shakespeare's: more re- liant on metaphor and personification, perhaps less reliant on image than tone of voice to convey its effect. As we will see, these differences are representative of changes the poetic use of ...
... idiom is not quite Shakespeare's: more re- liant on metaphor and personification, perhaps less reliant on image than tone of voice to convey its effect. As we will see, these differences are representative of changes the poetic use of ...
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... idiom as such , as a mode of communication inherently superior to any other . To be sure , one finds the implication in some writers that native discourse , because more familiar , is also more effective than the borrowed . Thus Wilson ...
... idiom as such , as a mode of communication inherently superior to any other . To be sure , one finds the implication in some writers that native discourse , because more familiar , is also more effective than the borrowed . Thus Wilson ...
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... idiom of “ common conversation and commerce about the ordinary affairs and conveniences of life " ( III.9.3 ) , can afford to be sloppy , having no great consequences . Philosophical language , however , must “ convey the precise ...
... idiom of “ common conversation and commerce about the ordinary affairs and conveniences of life " ( III.9.3 ) , can afford to be sloppy , having no great consequences . Philosophical language , however , must “ convey the precise ...
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... idiom of “illiterate and contemned mechanic[s]” (III.10.9), monosyllables are not for the cultivated. Nonetheless, the stage has been set for Wordsworth. In his poetry of the late 1790s and early 1800s, dis- puting the associationist ...
... idiom of “illiterate and contemned mechanic[s]” (III.10.9), monosyllables are not for the cultivated. Nonetheless, the stage has been set for Wordsworth. In his poetry of the late 1790s and early 1800s, dis- puting the associationist ...
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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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