Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity

Eisner, E.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-09-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230228153

DOI: 10.1057/9780230250840

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 204