Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern PoetryYale University Press, 01.10.2008 - 224 Seiten 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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... discussion of the low register begins, however, with an examination of John Locke, it does not conclude with Philosophical Investiga- tions.20 Wordsworth is drawing explicitly on Lockean empiricism when he ar- ticulates his theory of ...
... discussion of the low register begins, however, with an examination of John Locke, it does not conclude with Philosophical Investiga- tions.20 Wordsworth is drawing explicitly on Lockean empiricism when he ar- ticulates his theory of ...
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... discussion of the low register and its history by returning to Lear on the heath. In Lear's description of Edgar, we saw, Shakespeare seems to intuit the low register's special ability to signify the actual world. To draw such a ...
... discussion of the low register and its history by returning to Lear on the heath. In Lear's description of Edgar, we saw, Shakespeare seems to intuit the low register's special ability to signify the actual world. To draw such a ...
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... discussion is surely E. K.'s “ Epistle " to the Shep- heardes Calender . Spenser's pastoral language , he notes , brings “ great grace and , as one would say , auctoritie to the verse ” ( 14 ) . “ In my opinion it is one special prayse ...
... discussion is surely E. K.'s “ Epistle " to the Shep- heardes Calender . Spenser's pastoral language , he notes , brings “ great grace and , as one would say , auctoritie to the verse ” ( 14 ) . “ In my opinion it is one special prayse ...
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... discussion of double conformity demonstrates anything , it is that such a dis- course is impossible . Rather than facing this implication , however , Locke main- tains that , in principle at least , even the words for mixed modes and ...
... discussion of double conformity demonstrates anything , it is that such a dis- course is impossible . Rather than facing this implication , however , Locke main- tains that , in principle at least , even the words for mixed modes and ...
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... discussions. Hugh Blair brings us to Wordsworth's doorstep , without quite crossing the threshold . Although he discerns the ability of simple language to present objects powerfully , his main examples are drawn , astoundingly , from ...
... discussions. Hugh Blair brings us to Wordsworth's doorstep , without quite crossing the threshold . Although he discerns the ability of simple language to present objects powerfully , his main examples are drawn , astoundingly , from ...
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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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