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Radical Moral Authority and Desire: The Image of the Male Romantic Poet in Frontispiece Portraits of Byron and Shelley

This paper considers the history and iconography of frontispiece portraits of Byron and Shelley from the late eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In particular, the paper argues that the frontispiece reproductions are products of a nexus of technological, cultural, and economic circumstances that in the nineteenth century would change the way that poetry was established and the emotional responses that poets evoked in their audiences. By eliciting in their viewers emotions associated with radical moral authority, vulnerability, and loss, the portraits portray the male Romantic poet as as the subversive/angelic prophet of social and secual reform whose image powerfully influenced the nineteenth-century construction of Romanticism.