Wordsworth Writing

by Andrew Bennett

2021-01-07 19:30:16

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 a... Read more
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. Less

Book Details

File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.63 in
Print pages268
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date August 16, 2007
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521874199
Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He publishes on Romantic and twentieth-century literature and on literary theory. His books include This Thing Called Literature (2...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Buy CAD 123.95
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Condition
Buy CAD 123.95
Available Discount
No Discount available

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free