Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity

By:

Andrew Bennett

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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This original 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 only be properly appreciated after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the conceptualisation 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 commercialisation of poetry, the gendering of the canon, and the construction of poetic identity. Bennett goes on to discuss the strangely compelling effects which this new 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.

Release date Australia

December 2nd, 1999

Author

Andrew Bennett

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

288

Series

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Dimensions

152x229x21

ISBN-13

9780521641449

Product ID

2160776

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