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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... Langdon Hammer. In conversation, in seminar, and in comments on my work (often pro- duced under considerable time pressure), they provided the intellec- tual sympathy necessary to sustain long years of writing . ix Acknowledgments.
... Langdon Hammer. In conversation, in seminar, and in comments on my work (often pro- duced under considerable time pressure), they provided the intellec- tual sympathy necessary to sustain long years of writing . ix Acknowledgments.
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David Rosen. tual sympathy necessary to sustain long years of writing . I owe my ideas about how to conduct a life in the academy largely to them . Annabel Patterson read chapters 2 and 3 and improved them with precise and incisive ...
David Rosen. tual sympathy necessary to sustain long years of writing . I owe my ideas about how to conduct a life in the academy largely to them . Annabel Patterson read chapters 2 and 3 and improved them with precise and incisive ...
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... writer. Nevertheless, one can see why an idiom consisting mainly of short, concrete, native words, purged of abstractions and low on foreign borrowings, deployed in simple syntax, would have such an appeal to writers of a later era: the ...
... writer. Nevertheless, one can see why an idiom consisting mainly of short, concrete, native words, purged of abstractions and low on foreign borrowings, deployed in simple syntax, would have such an appeal to writers of a later era: the ...
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... writing almost four hundred years after King Lear, but strangely reminiscent of Lear on the heath. When the rain came it came in a quick moving squall moving across the island murmuring from afar then drumming on the roof then marching ...
... writing almost four hundred years after King Lear, but strangely reminiscent of Lear on the heath. When the rain came it came in a quick moving squall moving across the island murmuring from afar then drumming on the roof then marching ...
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... writers who emerged after 1910. One camp of critics, those partial to Stevens, could not disagree more. As Randall ... writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments when the imagination is stirred—is lyric.11 Reading Modernism ...
... writers who emerged after 1910. One camp of critics, those partial to Stevens, could not disagree more. As Randall ... writing—narcissistic and lim- ited to brief moments when the imagination is stirred—is lyric.11 Reading Modernism ...
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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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