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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... particular predicament of early nine- teenth-century poetry publication not only allowed for but, for certain writers and for a certain culture of writing, demanded deferred recep- tion. Once the conditions of publication and the market ...
... particular predicament of early nine- teenth-century poetry publication not only allowed for but, for certain writers and for a certain culture of writing, demanded deferred recep- tion. Once the conditions of publication and the market ...
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... particular contingent circumstances of its author's life and beyond its contemporary reception . It is the project of writers of genius to write for the future : ' In the inward assurance of permanent fame ' declares Coleridge , writers ...
... particular contingent circumstances of its author's life and beyond its contemporary reception . It is the project of writers of genius to write for the future : ' In the inward assurance of permanent fame ' declares Coleridge , writers ...
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... particular forms and modes pertaining to what might be seen as an individual poetic career . And yet , in each case , these forms are traversed by a crisis in representation determined not least by the impossible demands of a cultural ...
... particular forms and modes pertaining to what might be seen as an individual poetic career . And yet , in each case , these forms are traversed by a crisis in representation determined not least by the impossible demands of a cultural ...
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... particular kind of engagement with its audience , both actual and imagined , and I have attempted to trace certain configurations of this engagement in what follows . While a concern with posterity is certainly not limited to that part ...
... particular kind of engagement with its audience , both actual and imagined , and I have attempted to trace certain configurations of this engagement in what follows . While a concern with posterity is certainly not limited to that part ...
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... particular tradition , one which is unable to find consolation or redemption in the thought of a non - human , non - physical , non - earthly future ; and I seek to bring to the fore Leo Braudy's suggestion that in secular society ...
... particular tradition , one which is unable to find consolation or redemption in the thought of a non - human , non - physical , non - earthly future ; and I seek to bring to the fore Leo Braudy's suggestion that in secular society ...
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