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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... tion , to be more precise — but the power to be had in wielding it , has implications reaching far beyond literature . A great many poets , how- ever , beginning as early as Wordsworth , have made similar claims . In this book , I ...
... tion , to be more precise — but the power to be had in wielding it , has implications reaching far beyond literature . A great many poets , how- ever , beginning as early as Wordsworth , have made similar claims . In this book , I ...
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... tion can occur without anyone quite noticing for a very long time. The Kuhn- ian notion of paradigm-shifting in the sciences is suggestive, but finally of limited value. Thomas Kuhn, that is, draws a distinction between “normal sci ...
... tion can occur without anyone quite noticing for a very long time. The Kuhn- ian notion of paradigm-shifting in the sciences is suggestive, but finally of limited value. Thomas Kuhn, that is, draws a distinction between “normal sci ...
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... tion negatively . The writings of Sir John Cheke , for example , are less concerned with condemning the foreign than with praising the domestic : “ I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure , unmixt and un ...
... tion negatively . The writings of Sir John Cheke , for example , are less concerned with condemning the foreign than with praising the domestic : “ I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure , unmixt and un ...
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... tion , ' whereby ideas taken from particular beings become general representatives of all the same kind ; and their names , general names , applicable to whatever exists con- formable to such abstract ideas . ( II.11.9 ) In other words ...
... tion , ' whereby ideas taken from particular beings become general representatives of all the same kind ; and their names , general names , applicable to whatever exists con- formable to such abstract ideas . ( II.11.9 ) In other words ...
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... tion, Locke admits that a consciousness somehow transmitted between multi- ple bodies would make a single person. However, he does not try to explain how, though continuity is always under assault (by sleep, by ordinary attrition of ...
... tion, Locke admits that a consciousness somehow transmitted between multi- ple bodies would make a single person. However, he does not try to explain how, though continuity is always under assault (by sleep, by ordinary attrition of ...
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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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argument autobiography beauty Beggar begins Book Cambridge career century chapter claims Cold Heaven Coleridge crisis critics culture decade diction early Essays experience feelings finally Freud Green Helmet Harold Bloom human identity idiom imagination Jarrell John John Keats Juvenilia XVIa Katherine Bucknell Keats kind landscape language late later Latinate lines Locke Locke's low register lyric M. H. Abrams mature Maud Gonne meaning memory metaphor mind modern poetry Modernist myth nature object Orwell passage perhaps period philosophical plain English poem poet poet’s poetic political Prelude prose psychology Randall Jarrell reality recognize rhetoric Romantic Romanticism seems sense Shelley simple ideas social speaker stanza style suggest T. S. Eliot theory things thought Tintern Abbey tion tradition truth turn understanding University Press verse verse paragraph vision visionary voice W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden Watershed William Wordsworth words Wordsworthian writing Yeats's York