Nineteenth-century poetry and literary celebrity
Auteur :
Eisner, E.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349310012
Date de publication :
16 sept. 2009
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
While artistically ambitious poets of the era are often characterized as preferring a lasting future fame to contemporary popularity, this book reveals that a sophisticated, strategic and fascinated engagement with new modes of fame was central to the experiments with literary form of poets such as Byron, Keats, Shelley and Barrett Browning.