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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... poet's originating subjectivity , and of the work of art as an expression of self uncontaminated by market forces ... poet is a nightingale singing , as Shelley puts it , to please himself : poetry is overheard while ' eloquence ' is ...
... poet's originating subjectivity , and of the work of art as an expression of self uncontaminated by market forces ... poet is a nightingale singing , as Shelley puts it , to please himself : poetry is overheard while ' eloquence ' is ...
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... poet at the expense of what would be a more gen- eralised but perhaps more repetitive , even monolithic account of how ... poet's reputation during the latter half of his life . I trace his concern with con- versation , with that which ...
... poet at the expense of what would be a more gen- eralised but perhaps more repetitive , even monolithic account of how ... poet's reputation during the latter half of his life . I trace his concern with con- versation , with that which ...
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... poet recognised after his death , and in discussing Keats ( chapter 6 ) I seek to suggest that the retrospective celebration ... poet's engagement with a future life , with life after death , is bound up with his convulsive or hysterical ...
... poet recognised after his death , and in discussing Keats ( chapter 6 ) I seek to suggest that the retrospective celebration ... poet's engagement with a future life , with life after death , is bound up with his convulsive or hysterical ...
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... poet's impermanent body in Keats's poem ; a moment of impossible reciprocation , an enactment of the impossible payment or gift of remembrance in Byron's . This counter - discourse of the Romantic culture of poetry – articulated in the ...
... poet's impermanent body in Keats's poem ; a moment of impossible reciprocation , an enactment of the impossible payment or gift of remembrance in Byron's . This counter - discourse of the Romantic culture of poetry – articulated in the ...
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... poet's life but is finally the condition of the possibility of the identity of the poet . 17 Earlier expressions of the desire for immortality often include a number of these features , 17 and all four features are occasionally to be ...
... poet's life but is finally the condition of the possibility of the identity of the poet . 17 Earlier expressions of the desire for immortality often include a number of these features , 17 and all four features are occasionally to be ...
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