Lives of the Dead Poets - Keats, Shelley, Coleridge

Lives of the Dead Poets explores the biographical interest that has marked the posthumous reception of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It argues that this fascination with the poetic life-a special case of the attachments we form to poetic figures-speaks to the mode of poetry's survival into modernity.

List of contents

Introduction 1

1. Tracing Keats 29

2. The Art of Losing: Shelley¿s Adonais 53

3. Shelley¿s Pod People 76

4. Late Coleridge 92

5. Coleridge the Talker 115

Coda 133

Acknowledgments 137

Notes 139

Index 169

About the author

Karen Swann is Morris Professor of Rhetoric Emerita in the Williams College English Department. She currently teaches at Bard Microcollege Holyoke.

Summary

Lives of the Dead Poets explores the biographical interest that has marked the posthumous reception of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It argues that this fascination with the poetic life—a special case of the attachments we form to poetic figures—speaks to the mode of poetry’s survival into modernity.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Swann
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780823284184
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8418-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Lit Z; Lit Z
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies