Romantic poets and the culture of posterity / Andrew Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Andrew, 1960 December 2- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 35.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English poetry.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Reader-response criticism.

Authors and readers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Romantic Poets & the Culture of Posterity

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11126-9

0-511-05159-X

1-280-15364-4

0-511-30953-8

0-521-64144-6

0-511-48410-0

0-511-14923-9

0-511-11730-2

OCLC:

559550345