The Lake poets and professional identity / Brian Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Brian, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 71.

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lake poets.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Lake Poets & Professional Identity

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism. However, Romantic authors were deeply concerned with how their occupation might be considered a kind of labour comparable to that of the traditional professions. In the process of defining their work as authors, Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge - the 'Lake school' - aligned themselves with emerging constructions of the 'professional gentleman' that challenged the vocational practices of late eighteenth-century British culture. They modelled their idea of authorship on the learned professions of medicine, church, and law, which allowed them to imagine a productive relationship to the marketplace and to adopt the ways eighteenth-century poets had related their poetry to other kinds of intellectual work. In this work, Goldberg explores the ideas of professional risk, evaluation and competition that the writers developed as a response to a variety of eighteenth-century depictions of the literary career.

Contents:

Introduction. Professionalism and the Lake school of poetry

pt. I. Romanticism, risk, and professionalism

1. Cursing Doctor Young, and after

pt. II. Genealogies of the romantic wanderer

2. Merit and reward in 1729

3. James Beattie and 'The minstrel'

pt. III. Romantic itinerants

4. Authority and the itinerant cleric

5. William Cowper and the itinerant Lake poet

pt. IV. The Lake school, professionalism, and the public

6. Robert Southey and the claims of literature

7. "Ministry more palpable" : William Wordsworth's romantic professionalism.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-288) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-17893-2

1-281-08508-1

9786611085087

1-139-13222-9

0-511-34197-0

0-511-34144-X

0-511-34086-9

0-511-48424-0

0-511-34250-0

OCLC:

476123820