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Banker Poet - The Rise and Fall of Samuel Rogers, 1763-1855 (Hardcover)
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Banker Poet - The Rise and Fall of Samuel Rogers, 1763-1855 (Hardcover)
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Samuel Rogers was arguably the most widely read poet of the early
nineteenth century. He was also a prominent figure in the literary
and cultural life of London and owned one of the largest private
art collections of his day. He was well known to at least three
generations of celebrated figures, ranging from John Wilkes and Dr.
Burney, through Wordsworth, Scott and Byron, to Tennyson, Dickens
and Ruskin. He was also associated with other prominent national
figures such as Charles James Fox, Joseph Priestley, Lord Holland,
and the Duke of Wellington. Known throughout his life (not always
sympathetically) as the Banker Poet', he came from a radical,
Dissenting background. He was supportive of the French Revolution
and politically active in the 1790s when to be so involved personal
danger (he attended the treason trials of Tom Paine and Horne
Tooke). Nevertheless he considered his true vocation to be poetry
and achieved considerable success and fame when The Pleasures of
Memory was published in 1792. Ten years later he retired' to a
civilised home in St. James's Place where his breakfast and dinner
parties were legendary. His art collection attracted visitors from
all over the world, and his poem Italy, composed after an extended
tour there in 1815, was widely read. Martin Blocksidge considers
the nature of Rogers' poetry and the reputation it acquired, and
examines its cultural context; likewise Rogers' connoisseurship of
paintings. Rogers was famous, but controversial, provoking some
distaste and consequent satirical treatment, most notably from his
erstwhile friend, Byron. Biographical and interdisciplinary, this
narrative is relevant not only to literary historians but to those
interested in the history of Dissenting and radical groups,
picturesque travel, art history and the cultural history of London.
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