Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of BiographyFaber & Faber, 18.08.2011 - 352 Seiten Literary biography is an endlessly fascinating form, not least because of the fierce controversies that attend the question of how much of a writer's real life ought to be related to readers. Ian Hamilton, a first-rate biographer who encountering his share of adversity in writing the life of J.D. Salinger, is the perfect chronicler of such controversies in this brilliant study, first published in 1992, which charts the course of literary biography from Donne and Shakespeare to Plath and Larkin.'Such a compelling read.' Antonia Fraser, Times'Lively and informative, powerfully and humorously written.' Anthony Burgess, Observer'Surely the funniest book ever written on the doom-laden issue of posthumous literary fame.' Jonathan Keates, Independent |
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... father's son. After all, had not his father, at about his own age – John Jr was thirty in 1634 – also been disgraced, indeed imprisoned? Admittedly, father's crime was to have secretly married John Jr's mother, but even so: was it not ...
... father's son. After all, had not his father, at about his own age – John Jr was thirty in 1634 – also been disgraced, indeed imprisoned? Admittedly, father's crime was to have secretly married John Jr's mother, but even so: was it not ...
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... father's executor, John Jr decided to appoint himself custodian of the literary side of the estate. After all, no one else seemed to be in charge, least of all Henry King. John Donne not only made no mention of his poems in his will ...
... father's executor, John Jr decided to appoint himself custodian of the literary side of the estate. After all, no one else seemed to be in charge, least of all Henry King. John Donne not only made no mention of his poems in his will ...
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... father's now burgeoning reputation as a poet. Such a presentation has to assume that in 1631–2 he took no part in preparing his father's poems for the press, even though in those years he was safely riding the streets of Oxford and was ...
... father's now burgeoning reputation as a poet. Such a presentation has to assume that in 1631–2 he took no part in preparing his father's poems for the press, even though in those years he was safely riding the streets of Oxford and was ...
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... father's work was being hailed as 'incomparable' and was therefore being widely borrowed from: the vogue was under way. What we do know for certain is that in 1637, shortly after his return to England, John Jr began to petition for ...
... father's work was being hailed as 'incomparable' and was therefore being widely borrowed from: the vogue was under way. What we do know for certain is that in 1637, shortly after his return to England, John Jr began to petition for ...
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... father's wishes' and for the 'characteristic brutality' with which he 'made merchandise of the Mss'. In his 1644 Preface the son notes that his father has forbidden 'both the Presse and the Fire' but goes on to argue that 'I could find ...
... father's wishes' and for the 'characteristic brutality' with which he 'made merchandise of the Mss'. In his 1644 Preface the son notes that his father has forbidden 'both the Presse and the Fire' but goes on to argue that 'I could find ...
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Popes Bullies | |
Boswells Colossal Hoard | |
The Frailties of Robert Burns | |
John Forster of Dickens Fame | |
Froudes Carlyle Carlyles Froude | |
Tennyson and Swinburne | |
Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James 13 Remembering Rupert Brooke | |
Hardy and Kipling | |
James Joyces Patron Saint | |
Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin Index | |
About the Author | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Bambridge believed biography Birkenhead Bolingbroke Boswell Boswell’s Brooke’s Burns Burns’s Carlyle Carlyle’s Colvin Curll Currie Davenant death diaries Dickens died Donne’s Dryden Edinburgh edition Edmund Gosse Edward Marsh Eliot fame Fanny father’s fear feel Fettercairn Florence Forster friends Froude Froude’s genius Hardy Hardy’s Harriet Henley Henry James Hobhouse Hughes husband’s ibid James Joyce James’s John Donne John Jr Johnson Journal Joyce Joyce’s Kipling Kipling’s knew Lady Larkin later letters literary executor living Lord Byron manuscripts marriage Marsh Mary Memoir memory Miss Weaver Moore never papers perhaps Philip Larkin Plath poems poet poet’s Pope Pope’s posterity posthumous publication published quoted Review Robert Robert Burns Rupert Brooke seems Shakespeare Shelley Shelley’s Stevenson story Strachey Swinburne Swinburne’s Sylvia Sylvia Plath T. S. Eliot Ted Hughes Tennyson things Thomas Thomas Hardy thought told verse wanted Warburton Watts-Dunton wife William wished writing written wrote