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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... memory — and attempts to articulate a theory of po- etry not grounded in biography or visionary experience . It is not my purpose to replace one genealogy with another , Keats supplanting Shelley as the Moderns ' most important direct ...
... memory — and attempts to articulate a theory of po- etry not grounded in biography or visionary experience . It is not my purpose to replace one genealogy with another , Keats supplanting Shelley as the Moderns ' most important direct ...
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... memory, a memory always challenged by forgetfulness, that we can claim connection to the per- son (or the consciousness) receiving impressions yesterday or two years ago (II.27.10). If memory is disrupted—by amnesia let us say—the self ...
... memory, a memory always challenged by forgetfulness, that we can claim connection to the per- son (or the consciousness) receiving impressions yesterday or two years ago (II.27.10). If memory is disrupted—by amnesia let us say—the self ...
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... memory. The period preceding this divide, his youth, assumes a privileged place in his myth of development; so, too, does the idiom he correlates with that period. To the discomfort of his Modernist successors, he finally calls that ...
... memory. The period preceding this divide, his youth, assumes a privileged place in his myth of development; so, too, does the idiom he correlates with that period. To the discomfort of his Modernist successors, he finally calls that ...
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... memory and volition: “patience now doth seem a thing of which / He hath no need.” The tone of the poem again is manifestly envious. There is a beauty in the way “little hedgerow birds . . . regard him not.” He feels no pain. In short ...
... memory and volition: “patience now doth seem a thing of which / He hath no need.” The tone of the poem again is manifestly envious. There is a beauty in the way “little hedgerow birds . . . regard him not.” He feels no pain. In short ...
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Inhalt
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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