The Perversity of Poetry
Subtitle: Romantic Ideology And the Popular Male Poet of Genius
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: January 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780791463000
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Gothic & Romance; Poetry
First sentence: BEFORE I CAN TURN TO THE RHETORICAL STRATEGIES USED BY MEN of letters to "diagnose" Scott and Byron, the two poets who were consistently seen as the opposing possibilities for poetic genius in the late Romantic period, and before I can begin to demonstrate the connection between each poet's poetry and politics, I need to clarify the historical conditions that drove critics in the Romantic period to adopt a rhetoric of health and disease in the first place.