Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity

Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521026895
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 821.709145
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 268
Weight: 430g
Height: 155mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 25mm