Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Author: Andrew Bennett, University of Bristol
- Date Published: January 2005
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This 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.
Read more- Broad-based survey of the major Romantic poets and their poetics (including a chapter on women writers)
- Expands on the theme of his well-reviewed earlier book Keats, Narrative and Audience
- Combines critical, historical and theoretical perspectives on Romantic poetry
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'An impressive though sometimes relentless book.' Michael O'Neill, The Times Literary Supplement
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- Date Published: January 2005
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511036354
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I:
1. Writing for the future
2. The Romantic culture of posterity
3. Engendering posterity
Part II:
4. Wordsworth's survival
5. Coleridge's conversation
6. Keats's prescience
7. Shelley's ghosts
8. Byron's success
Afterword
Notes
Index.
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