Romantic Poets and the Culture of PosterityThis 1999 book examines the way in which the Romantic period's culture of posterity inaugurates a tradition of writing which demands that the poet should write for an audience of the future: the true poet, a figure of neglected genius, can be properly appreciated only after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the conceptualization of the poet and poetic reception, with wide-ranging implications for the poetry and poetics of the Romantic period. He surveys the contexts for this transformation of the relationship between poet and audience, engaging with issues such as the commercialization of poetry, the gendering of the canon, and the construction of poetic identity. Bennett goes on to discuss the strangely compelling effects which this reception theory produces in the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron, who have come to embody, for posterity, the figure of the Romantic poet. |
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... Shelley and Byron , who have come to embody , for posterity , the figure of the Romantic poet . Andrew Bennett is Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol . His previous books include Keats , Narrative and Audience ...
... Shelley and Byron , who have come to embody , for posterity , the figure of the Romantic poet . Andrew Bennett is Reader in English Literature at the University of Bristol . His previous books include Keats , Narrative and Audience ...
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... 4 Wordsworth's survival 5 Coleridge's conversation 6 Keats's prescience 7 Shelley's ghosts 93 95 116 139 158 8 Byron's success Afterword Notes Index 179 200 203 261 Acknowledgements In the last chapter of this book, chapter , ix Contents.
... 4 Wordsworth's survival 5 Coleridge's conversation 6 Keats's prescience 7 Shelley's ghosts 93 95 116 139 158 8 Byron's success Afterword Notes Index 179 200 203 261 Acknowledgements In the last chapter of this book, chapter , ix Contents.
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... Shelley in Posterity ' , in Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran ( eds . ) , Shelley : Poet and Legislator of the World ( Baltimore , MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1996 ) ; some paragraphs from chapter 1 appeared as part of an ...
... Shelley in Posterity ' , in Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran ( eds . ) , Shelley : Poet and Legislator of the World ( Baltimore , MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1996 ) ; some paragraphs from chapter 1 appeared as part of an ...
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... Shelley : The Critical Heritage , ed . James E. Barcus ( London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1975 ) . The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley , ed . Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck , new edn . , 10 vols . ( New York : Gordian Press ...
... Shelley : The Critical Heritage , ed . James E. Barcus ( London : Routledge and Kegan Paul , 1975 ) . The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley , ed . Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck , new edn . , 10 vols . ( New York : Gordian Press ...
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... Shelley puts it , to please himself : poetry is overheard while ' eloquence ' is heard , according to John Stuart Mill.3 Nevertheless , the Romantic theory of posterity still requires that the work finally be judged and discriminated ...
... Shelley puts it , to please himself : poetry is overheard while ' eloquence ' is heard , according to John Stuart Mill.3 Nevertheless , the Romantic theory of posterity still requires that the work finally be judged and discriminated ...
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