Download or read book Literary Minstrelsy, 1770-1830 written by E. Simpson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s.