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 should write for an audience of the future : the true poet , a figure of neglected genius , can only be prop- erly appreciated after death . Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the conceptualisation of the poet ...
... poet should write for an audience of the future : the true poet , a figure of neglected genius , can only be prop- erly appreciated after death . Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the conceptualisation of the poet ...
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... poet (who, in this story of literary pro- duction, is gendered as, primarily, male) no longer writes simply for money, contemporary reputation, status, or pleasure. Instead he writes so that his identity, transformed and transliterated ...
... poet (who, in this story of literary pro- duction, is gendered as, primarily, male) no longer writes simply for money, contemporary reputation, status, or pleasure. Instead he writes so that his identity, transformed and transliterated ...
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... poet's originating subjectivity , and of the work of art as an expression of self uncontaminated by market forces , undiluted by appeals to the corrupt prejudices and desires of ( bourgeois , contaminating , fallible , feminine ...
... poet's originating subjectivity , and of the work of art as an expression of self uncontaminated by market forces , undiluted by appeals to the corrupt prejudices and desires of ( bourgeois , contaminating , fallible , feminine ...
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Andrew Bennett. identification of the work by and with the poet himself , an identity which will live on in the future , will , indeed , come to life in posterity . The effect of originality is , then , that the poem and therefore the poet ...
Andrew Bennett. identification of the work by and with the poet himself , an identity which will live on in the future , will , indeed , come to life in posterity . The effect of originality is , then , that the poem and therefore the poet ...
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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 posterity is framed by each writer . My intention in these chapters has been to move away from the fact of the ...
... poet at the expense of what would be a more gen- eralised but perhaps more repetitive , even monolithic account of how posterity is framed by each writer . My intention in these chapters has been to move away from the fact of the ...
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