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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... period . He surveys the contexts for this transformation of the relationship between poet and audience , engaging with issues such as the commercialisation of poetry , the gendering of the canon , and the construction of poetic identity ...
... period . He surveys the contexts for this transformation of the relationship between poet and audience , engaging with issues such as the commercialisation of poetry , the gendering of the canon , and the construction of poetic identity ...
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... period that saw the emergence of those notions of ' literature ' and of literary history , especially national literary history , on which modern scholarship in English has been founded . The categories produced by Romanticism have also ...
... period that saw the emergence of those notions of ' literature ' and of literary history , especially national literary history , on which modern scholarship in English has been founded . The categories produced by Romanticism have also ...
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... period is coded as feminine in part by virtue of its resistance to or ironisation of the Romantic culture of posterity and by its celebration of the ephemeral . Women writers of the period responded to this culture by the construction ...
... period is coded as feminine in part by virtue of its resistance to or ironisation of the Romantic culture of posterity and by its celebration of the ephemeral . Women writers of the period responded to this culture by the construction ...
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... period - Wordsworth's ' Tintern Abbey ' and Book Five of The Prelude , Coleridge's ' Conversation Poems ' and ' The Ancient Mariner ' , Keats's Odes , Shelley's ' Ode to the West Wind ' , Byron's Don Juan . On the other hand , I have ...
... period - Wordsworth's ' Tintern Abbey ' and Book Five of The Prelude , Coleridge's ' Conversation Poems ' and ' The Ancient Mariner ' , Keats's Odes , Shelley's ' Ode to the West Wind ' , Byron's Don Juan . On the other hand , I have ...
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... period , those effects of amnesia , dis- tortion or catachresis that we call culture themselves begin to articulate the possibility of death as the precondition for certain forms of writing known as ' literature ' . I suggest that ...
... period , those effects of amnesia , dis- tortion or catachresis that we call culture themselves begin to articulate the possibility of death as the precondition for certain forms of writing known as ' literature ' . I suggest that ...
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