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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... effects which this new 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 . Andrew Bennett is Reader in English ...
... effects which this new 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 . Andrew Bennett is Reader in English ...
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... the immortality effect, the ability of a poem, novel, statue, painting, photo- graph, symphony to survive beyond the death of the artist. But during the eighteenth century this quality begins to be figured as Introduction.
... the immortality effect, the ability of a poem, novel, statue, painting, photo- graph, symphony to survive beyond the death of the artist. But during the eighteenth century this quality begins to be figured as Introduction.
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... effect of originality is , then , that the poem and therefore the poet , inscribed in language , will survive , and our highest praise for any poem , still , is to say that it will last , that it will live on , in the future , beyond ...
... effect of originality is , then , that the poem and therefore the poet , inscribed in language , will survive , and our highest praise for any poem , still , is to say that it will last , that it will live on , in the future , beyond ...
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... 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 impossible figuration of audience , that we may look to ...
... 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 impossible figuration of audience , that we may look to ...
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... effects of posterity theory in these writers ' work . In chapter 4 , I argue that Wordsworth's sense of posterity is above all a family affair . While Wordsworth is one of the central theorists of Romantic posterity , he is also ...
... effects of posterity theory in these writers ' work . In chapter 4 , I argue that Wordsworth's sense of posterity is above all a family affair . While Wordsworth is one of the central theorists of Romantic posterity , he is also ...
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