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.
| ISBN: | 9780521026895 |
| Publication date: | 2nd November 2006 |
| Author: | Andrew University of Bristol Bennett |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |
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.
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity features in the following genres: Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity is available in Paperback
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity was written by Andrew University of Bristol Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity has 288 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism series
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