Romantic poets and the culture of posterity / Andrew Bennett.
Romantic poets and the culture of posterity / Andrew Bennett.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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English
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xiii, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Writing for the future -- 2. The Romantic culture of posterity -- 3. Engendering posterity -- 4. Wordsworth's survival -- 5. Coleridge's conversation -- 6. Keats's prescience -- 7. Shelley's ghosts -- 8. Byron's success.
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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England
Date Published
1999.
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"This original 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 only be properly appreciated after death. Andrew Bennett argues that this involves a radical shift in the...
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Romantic poets and the culture of posterity / Andrew Bennett.
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 35.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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74Vvk0884GLX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvk0884GLX
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0521641446
9780521641449
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821.709145
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991014010689702626
