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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.

Table 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

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 02/04/2019
      ISBN13: 9780823284184, 978-0823284184
      ISBN10: 0823284182
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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table 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

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