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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldberg, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; no. 71.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.