Bright stars : John Keats, 'Barry Cornwall' and Romantic literary culture
Turley, Richard MarggrafAuthor
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2009.
Solicitor, dandy and pugilist, Cornwall - pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874) - published his first poems in the Literary Gazette in late 1817. By February 1820, under the tutelage of Keats's mentor, Leigh Hunt, Cornwall had produced three volumes of verse. It is difficult to square Cornwall's early nineteenth-century popularity with his subsequent neglect. This book concentrates on Cornwall's success between 1817 and 1823 and explores Cornwall's rivalry and political camaraderie with Keats, whose career exists in a mirrored relationship with his own trajectory into celebrity.
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Solicitor, dandy and pugilist, Cornwall - pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874) - published his first poems in the Literary Gazette in late 1817. By February 1820, under the tutelage of Keats's mentor, Leigh Hunt, Cornwall had produced three volumes of verse. It is difficult to square Cornwall's early nineteenth-century popularity with his subsequent neglect. This book concentrates on Cornwall's success between 1817 and 1823 and explores Cornwall's rivalry and political camaraderie with Keats, whose career exists in a mirrored relationship with his own trajectory into celebrity.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : bubbles or gold on the bounteous tree? Cornwall's celebrity -- Breathing human passion : Cornwall and popular romanticism -- Slippery steps of the temple of fame : Cornwall and Keats's reputation -- Bright stars and close bosom-friends : Keats, Cornwall and "Cockney" politics -- The scent of strong smelling phrases : Cornwall's popular eroticism -- Metropolitan commissioners of lunacy -- Afterword-afterlives.
Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874.
Cornwall, Barry, 1787-1874
Keats, John, 1795-1821
Poets, English
English poetry
Books and reading
Romanticism
English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature