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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... in associating Senecan plainness with the aims of empiricism and inductive method: the new science demanded a prose in which as few words as possible interfered with the presentation of object reality . From Bacon Introduction 3.
... in associating Senecan plainness with the aims of empiricism and inductive method: the new science demanded a prose in which as few words as possible interfered with the presentation of object reality . From Bacon Introduction 3.
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David Rosen. interfered with the presentation of object reality . From Bacon , the line of plain stylists descended to the scientists of the Royal Society ( Wilkins , Boyle , with Thomas Sprat reporting ) , and philosophers like Hobbes ...
David Rosen. interfered with the presentation of object reality . From Bacon , the line of plain stylists descended to the scientists of the Royal Society ( Wilkins , Boyle , with Thomas Sprat reporting ) , and philosophers like Hobbes ...
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... close. If Wordsworth's legacy to the twentieth century is a low register with a reputation for truthfulness in signifying object reality, modern poets beginning with Yeats use this reputation for their own Introduction 11.
... close. If Wordsworth's legacy to the twentieth century is a low register with a reputation for truthfulness in signifying object reality, modern poets beginning with Yeats use this reputation for their own Introduction 11.
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... prevent this, the mind makes the particular ideas, received from particu- lar objects, to become general; which is done by considering them as they are in the mind such appearances separate from all other existences , and Prologue 19.
... prevent this, the mind makes the particular ideas, received from particu- lar objects, to become general; which is done by considering them as they are in the mind such appearances separate from all other existences , and Prologue 19.
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... object ( III.2.1 ) . Locke thus introduces two intertwined problems to the study of language . The first he calls the “ double conformity ” of ideas : an idea is “ something in the mind that exists between the thing that exists , and ...
... object ( III.2.1 ) . Locke thus introduces two intertwined problems to the study of language . The first he calls the “ double conformity ” of ideas : an idea is “ something in the mind that exists between the thing that exists , and ...
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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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