Wordsworth Writing

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.