The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White

This book is the first ever scholarly edition of one of the best-selling and most revered poets in the nineteenth century - a poet excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. A poor youth who died early from tuberculosis, Kirke White shaped the popular image of the Romantic artist as a young rebel against convention who is too sensitive to survive in the harsh, commercial world. As a prodigy who made his incipient death the subject of his tragic poetry, he was influential on both sides of the Atlantic -- on Keats, Byron, Shelley, Browning, Emerson and Bryant. The edition restores his powerful, macabre and prophetic verse to attention, and also demonstrates his variety and range. It includes a comprehensive introduction discussing the creation of his public image, the marketing of his poetry, and the impacts he made on Romantic and Victorian poetry, on labouring-class writing, and on publishing history.

Author: Tim Fulford
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 07/28/2024
Series: Romantic Reconfigurations Studies in Literature and Culture #18
Pages: 568
Weight: 2.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9781802074703