Romantic poets and the culture of posterity / Andrew Bennett.

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Bennett, Andrew, 1960 December 2-

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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 35.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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0511007396
9780511007392
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PR590 .B34 1999eb

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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.

Summary: This book offers a new theory of reception governing Romantic poetry, through its culture of posterity - 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 only be properly appreciated after death.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This book offers a new theory of reception governing Romantic poetry, through its culture of posterity - 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 only be properly appreciated after death.

English.

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