The Lake poets and professional identity

The idea that the inspired poet stands apart from the marketplace is considered central to British Romanticism. However, Romantic authors were deeply concerned with how their occupation might be considered a kind of labour comparable to that of the traditional professions. In the process of defining...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Goldberg, Brian, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2007.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 71.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Professionalism and the Lake school of poetry
  • pt. I. Romanticism, risk, and professionalism
  • 1. Cursing Doctor Young, and after
  • pt. II. Genealogies of the romantic wanderer
  • 2. Merit and reward in 1729
  • 3. James Beattie and 'The minstrel'
  • pt. III. Romantic itinerants
  • 4. Authority and the itinerant cleric
  • 5. William Cowper and the itinerant Lake poet
  • pt. IV. The Lake school, professionalism, and the public
  • 6. Robert Southey and the claims of literature
  • 7. "Ministry more palpable" : William Wordsworth's romantic professionalism.