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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... women took to literary composition, not just in poetry, which some of them famously transformed, but in many modes ... Woman and DonJuan; journalism by Cobbett and Hazlitt; poetic form, content and style by the Lake School and the ...
... women took to literary composition, not just in poetry, which some of them famously transformed, but in many modes ... Woman and DonJuan; journalism by Cobbett and Hazlitt; poetic form, content and style by the Lake School and the ...
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... women during the 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 ...
... women during the 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 ...
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