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Imaginary Biographies: Misreading the Lives of the Poets
Geoff Klock
Imaginary Biographies: Misreading the Lives of the Poets
Geoff Klock
Argues that the bizarre portrayal of historical writers in post-Enlightenment English poetry constitutes a genre, a battleground for two central conflicts: the confrontation of the self-sufficient Romantic imagination with the brute fact of external precursors; and the participation in, and simultaneous deflation of, Romantic idealism.
288 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | June 1, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780826428028 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 162 × 231 × 27 mm · 557 g |
Language | English |