Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity

by EricEisner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $60.16

  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.