{"product_id":"lives-of-the-dead-poets-karen-swann-9780823284184","title":"Lives of the Dead Poets: Keats, Shelley, Coleridge","description":"\u003cp\u003eAny reader engaging the work of Keats, Shelley, or Coleridge must confront the role biography has played in the canonization of each. Each archive is saturated with stories of the life prematurely cut off or, in Coleridge's case, of promise wasted in indolence. One confronts reminiscences of contemporaries who describe subjects singularly unsuited to this world, as well as still stranger materials--death masks, bits of bone, locks of hair, a heart--initially preserved by circles and then circulating more widely, often in tandem with bits of the literary corpus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEspecially when it centers on the early deaths of Keats and Shelley, biographical interest tends to be dismissed as a largely Victorian and sentimental phenomenon that we should by now have put behind us. And yet a line of verse by these poets can still trigger associations with biographical detail in ways that spark pathos or produce intimations of prolepsis or fatality, even for readers suspicious of such effects. Biographical fascination--the untoward and involuntary \u003ci\u003eclinging \u003c\/i\u003eof attention to the biographical subject--is thus \"posthumous\" in Keats's evocative sense of the term, its life equivocally sustained beyond its period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLives of the Dead Poets \u003c\/i\u003etakes seriously the biographical fascination that has dogged the prematurely arrested figures of three romantic poets. Arising in tandem with a sense of the threatened end of \u003ci\u003epoetry\u003c\/i\u003e's allotted period, biographical fascination personalizes the precariousness of poetry, binding poetry, the poet-function, and readers to an irrecuperable singularity. Reading romantic poets together with the modernity of Benjamin and Baudelaire, Swann shows how poets' afterlives offer an opening for poetry's survival, from its first nineteenth-century death sentences into our present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Swann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823284182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823284184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Karen Swann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47611009302783,"sku":"9780823284184","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85d2ebe4-3d0c-42ba-8ad0-060695d4b1ca.jpg?v=1764511124","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lives-of-the-dead-poets-karen-swann-9780823284184","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}