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1 online resource (viii, 297 pages) |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; no. 71 |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; no. 71.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 their work as authors, Wordsworth, Southey and Coleridge - the 'Lake school' - aligned themselves with emerging constructions of the 'professional gentleman' that challenged the vocational practices of late eighteenth-century British culture. They modelled their idea of authorship on the learned professions of medicine, church, and law, which allowed them to imagine a productive relationship to the marketplace and to adopt the ways eighteenth-century poets had related their poetry to other kinds of intellectual work. In this work, Goldberg explores the ideas of professional risk, evaluation and competition that the writers developed as a response to a variety of eighteenth-century depictions of the literary career |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-288) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lake poets.
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English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English poetry
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Intellectual life
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Lake poets
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Lake school
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511342509 |
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