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(More customer reviews)A tightly argued piece of criticism, deploying close reading and sustained analysis with equal skill. Since it deals neither with my discipline (history) nor my period (early modern England), I must take much of the later book on faith; but the first chapter on John Locke seems both incisive and accurate. Obviously scholars of poetry will be interested in this book; I think scholars of rhetoric would also profit by taking a look.
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In 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.
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