Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity
Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity By Eric Eisner
2009 | 213 Pages | ISBN: 0230228151 | PDF | 1 MB
2009 | 213 Pages | ISBN: 0230228151 | PDF | 1 MB
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.