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Bright Stars
Richard Marggraf Turley
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Description for Bright Stars
Paperback. Cornwall - pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874) - published his first poems in the Literary Gazette in late 1817. This book explores the central question of how Cornwall's racy and politically subversive poetry managed to establish a broad readership where Keats' publications met with review hostility and readerly indifference. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
If we could ask a Romantic reader of new poetry in 1820 to identify the most celebrated poet of the day after Byron, the chances are that he or she would reply with the name of ‘Barry Cornwall’. 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. Marcian Colonna sold 700 copies in a single morning, a figure exceeding Keats’s lifetime sales. Hazlitt’s suppressed anthology, Select British ... Read more
If we could ask a Romantic reader of new poetry in 1820 to identify the most celebrated poet of the day after Byron, the chances are that he or she would reply with the name of ‘Barry Cornwall’. 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. Marcian Colonna sold 700 copies in a single morning, a figure exceeding Keats’s lifetime sales. Hazlitt’s suppressed anthology, Select British ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Liverpool English Texts and Studies
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318139
SKU
V9781846318139
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About Richard Marggraf Turley
Richard Marggraf Turley is Professor of English Literature at Aberystwyth University.
Reviews for Bright Stars
Bright Stars raises intriguing questions about canon-formation and literary reception, about early nineteenth-century audiences and reading and reviewing practices, and about the poetry of one of the period’s most admired poets in English and one of its most neglected. It makes an important contribution to our understanding of Romantic literary culture. Andrew Bennett Richard Marggraf Turley's study of the ... Read more