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Romantic poets and the culture of posterity
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Romantic poets and the culture of posterity

Author: Andrew Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 35.
Edition/Format:   Book : Document   Computer File : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Computer File, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Andrew Bennett
ISBN: 0521641446 9780521641449 0511149239 9780511149238
OCLC Number: 40538292
Description: xiii, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Writing for the future --
The Romantic culture of posterity --
Engendering posterity --
Wordsworth's survival --
Coleridge's conversation --
Keats's prescience --
Shelley's ghosts --
Byron's success --
Afterword.
Series Title: Cambridge studies in Romanticism, 35.
Responsibility: Andrew Bennett.
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This 1999 book offers a theory of reception governing Romantic poetry, through its culture of posterity.  Read more...

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'An impressive though sometimes relentless book.' Michael O'Neill, The Times Literary Supplement

 
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