Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity
Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity By Andrew Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1999 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0521641446 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1999 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 0521641446 | PDF | 1 MB
This original book examines the way in which the Romantic period inaugurates a tradition of writing that 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 conceptualization of the poet and poetic reception, with wide-ranging implications for the gendering of the poetic canon, and for understanding the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron, paradigmatic figures of the Romantic poet.