Abstract
This chapter challenges the view that the 1820s and 1830s saw a slump in poetry production. Stewart presents publishing statistics and evidence from poets, periodicals, and publishers to develop a more nuanced picture of a market that was considerably more vibrant than previous studies have allowed. A new category, ‘the living poets’, allowed the age’s culture to consider the shape their period would take when it became part of poetical history in a future ‘canon’. The period also encouraged poets to think in strikingly modern ways about the idea of poetic ‘form’, a term that possessed both metrical and commercial aspects. The chapter concludes with Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh (1817), a poem that crystallises the doubts and possibilities the period’s poetry encapsulates.
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