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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... nature.” Such poetry, Perloff adds, inevitably privi- leges content over structure, the poet's own imagination his obsessive recurring topic. The form most conducive for this kind of writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments ...
... nature.” Such poetry, Perloff adds, inevitably privi- leges content over structure, the poet's own imagination his obsessive recurring topic. The form most conducive for this kind of writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments ...
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... nature in the deep past, the world of his childhood, while leaving his adult self intact. Language, the low register, is used to conceal the space between these periods; indeed, his argument for the truthfulness of plain English grows ...
... nature in the deep past, the world of his childhood, while leaving his adult self intact. Language, the low register, is used to conceal the space between these periods; indeed, his argument for the truthfulness of plain English grows ...
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... nature of plain English itself. Once valued as an ac- curate signifier of the world, plain English, by the middle of the twentieth cen- tury, has become a counter in a language game: an indicator of honest inten- tions. Whereas my ...
... nature of plain English itself. Once valued as an ac- curate signifier of the world, plain English, by the middle of the twentieth cen- tury, has become a counter in a language game: an indicator of honest inten- tions. Whereas my ...
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... nature and consequences of Wordsworth's revolution, espe- cially his legacy to modern poetry. Most of the present chapter is devoted to the figure who, unwittingly, lay the groundwork for Wordsworth: John Locke. To understand the ...
... nature and consequences of Wordsworth's revolution, espe- cially his legacy to modern poetry. Most of the present chapter is devoted to the figure who, unwittingly, lay the groundwork for Wordsworth: John Locke. To understand the ...
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... nature craft , experiens , and folowing of other excellent doth lead her unto . ” One detects in Cheke's comments a feel for the distinctive character , or person- ality , of English writing : plain and natural . Since the sixteenth ...
... nature craft , experiens , and folowing of other excellent doth lead her unto . ” One detects in Cheke's comments a feel for the distinctive character , or person- ality , of English writing : plain and natural . Since the sixteenth ...
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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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