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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      02 December 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511484100
      9780521641449
      9780521026895
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484100
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (35)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (35)
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    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.

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