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Bright Stars - John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture (Paperback)
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Bright Stars - John Keats, Barry Cornwall and Romantic Literary Culture (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 57
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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 Poets (1824), allocated Cornwall nine
pages - the same number as Keats, and more than Southey, Lamb or
Shelley; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine pronounced Cornwall a poet
of 'originality and genius'; and in 1821, Gold's London Magazine
announced that in terms of 'tenderness and delicacy' even Percy
Shelley was 'surpassed very far indeed by Barry Cornwall'. It is
difficult to square Cornwall's early nineteenth-century popularity
with his subsequent neglect. In Bright Stars Richard Marggraf
Turley concentrates on Cornwall's phenomenonal success between 1817
and 1823, emphatically returning an important and unjustly
neglected Romantic author to critical focus. Marggraf Turley
explores Cornwall's rivalry - and at various junctures, political
camaraderie - with fellow Hunt protege Keats, whose career exists
in a fascinatingly mirrored relationship with his own trajectory
into celebrity. The book argues that Cornwall helped to structure
Keats's experience as a poet but also explores the central question
of how Cornwall's racy and politically subversive poetry managed to
establish a broad readership where Keats's similarly indecorous
publications met with review hostility and readerly indifference.
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