this isn't really right. Romanticism was particularly interested in a certain kind of cult of the author as hero, but Milton was celebrated in his own time (well before the 19th century). So were Pope and Samuel Johnson and Voltaire.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/959431408061054976 …
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I don't think that's really true. just read a Da Vinci bio, and the way he was treated had a lot of the hallmarks of what we'd recognize as celebrity.
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May have been a slow shift from one to the other over time...?
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