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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... hand and its inevitable occurrence on the other. It is for this reason that I resort to one or more of a number of strategies for survi- val. If I am able to produce children I can be genetically encoded into my offspring; if I am loved ...
... hand and its inevitable occurrence on the other. It is for this reason that I resort to one or more of a number of strategies for survi- val. If I am able to produce children I can be genetically encoded into my offspring; if I am loved ...
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... artis- tic significance while , at the same time , continuing to constitute a repeatedly challenged and ironised topos . So it is that while on the one hand I shall argue that the appeal to a posthumous 4 Introduction.
... artis- tic significance while , at the same time , continuing to constitute a repeatedly challenged and ironised topos . So it is that while on the one hand I shall argue that the appeal to a posthumous 4 Introduction.
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Andrew Bennett. hand I shall argue that the appeal to a posthumous reception is central to the project of Romantic poetics , on the other hand I shall attempt to trace the ways in which that claim is ironised and subverted . If the ...
Andrew Bennett. hand I shall argue that the appeal to a posthumous reception is central to the project of Romantic poetics , on the other hand I shall attempt to trace the ways in which that claim is ironised and subverted . If the ...
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... hand , I focus on some of the most well- known , most canonical poems of the Romantic period - Wordsworth's ' Tintern Abbey ' and Book Five of The Prelude , Coleridge's ' Conversation Poems ' and ' The Ancient Mariner ' , Keats's Odes ...
... hand , I focus on some of the most well- known , most canonical poems of the Romantic period - Wordsworth's ' Tintern Abbey ' and Book Five of The Prelude , Coleridge's ' Conversation Poems ' and ' The Ancient Mariner ' , Keats's Odes ...
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... hand , the word denotes that which pertains to the world ( OED adjective 3a : ' Of or belonging to the present or visible world as distinguished from the eternal or spiritual world ' ) , while on the other hand it denotes that which ...
... hand , the word denotes that which pertains to the world ( OED adjective 3a : ' Of or belonging to the present or visible world as distinguished from the eternal or spiritual world ' ) , while on the other hand it denotes that which ...
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