Klock, a freelance writer in New York City, proclaims a new literary genre: the imaginary literary biography. The main character of works in this genre, he explains, are authors ripped out of
history and slammed into a bizarre and idiosyncratic landscape. He further shows how it has been the arena for two major literary conflicts: the 19th-century Romantic imagination versus the
influence of precursors, and 20th-century poets participating in Romantic idealism at the same time they are deflating it. He has not yet developed an index to the project. Annotation 穢2008
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