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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... calls the 'monogram' of the genius's 'most essential being'.2 The author in the text is both present and absent, self-identical and anonymous. Posterity validates the poet, but does so in the future perfect tense ('we must imagine we ...
... calls the 'monogram' of the genius's 'most essential being'.2 The author in the text is both present and absent, self-identical and anonymous. Posterity validates the poet, but does so in the future perfect tense ('we must imagine we ...
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... calls the ' absolute Genius ' ( BL 1.31 ) is , by definition , set apart from the mass of people and by virtue of this difference conceived as ' original ' , it is not possible for him to be fully understood until the future ...
... calls the ' absolute Genius ' ( BL 1.31 ) is , by definition , set apart from the mass of people and by virtue of this difference conceived as ' original ' , it is not possible for him to be fully understood until the future ...
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... calls a ' culture of redemption ' , it is one which effects its own dissolution or deconstruc- tion . And it is my suggestion that it is in the collapse of this theory in its working through , in multiple , conflicted ways , of an ...
... calls a ' culture of redemption ' , it is one which effects its own dissolution or deconstruc- tion . And it is my suggestion that it is in the collapse of this theory in its working through , in multiple , conflicted ways , of an ...
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... call poetry , I want to suggest that it is in poetry that this project is most clearly promulgated and sustained . To this end , much of this book engages in detailed readings of a limited number of poems . On the one hand , I focus on ...
... call poetry , I want to suggest that it is in poetry that this project is most clearly promulgated and sustained . To this end , much of this book engages in detailed readings of a limited number of poems . On the one hand , I focus on ...
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... calls ' self transcendence ' , the ' basic need ' to ' seek to further , the well - being , preservation , and endurance of communities , locations , causes , artifacts , institutions , ideals and so on , that are outside themselves ...
... calls ' self transcendence ' , the ' basic need ' to ' seek to further , the well - being , preservation , and endurance of communities , locations , causes , artifacts , institutions , ideals and so on , that are outside themselves ...
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