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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... had been found guilty. He was acquitted: two surgeons and a physician testified that 'they could not assign the cause' of little Humphry's death, 'since there was no appearance of hurt'. And to this day, there are those who would also ...
... had been found guilty. He was acquitted: two surgeons and a physician testified that 'they could not assign the cause' of little Humphry's death, 'since there was no appearance of hurt'. And to this day, there are those who would also ...
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... had been brought up as a Catholic: this was common knowledge. But how adhesive were those early Jesuit connections? And then there was the rakish youth, the runaway marriage, the sponging, prospectless, near-suicidal years in Mitcham ...
... had been brought up as a Catholic: this was common knowledge. But how adhesive were those early Jesuit connections? And then there was the rakish youth, the runaway marriage, the sponging, prospectless, near-suicidal years in Mitcham ...
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... had been angling for a job at Christ Church. Son of a renowned divine, he had church contacts galore, and although ... had been deeply stormy and profane, that at one time he had been 'a great visiter of ladies, a great frequenter of ...
... had been angling for a job at Christ Church. Son of a renowned divine, he had church contacts galore, and although ... had been deeply stormy and profane, that at one time he had been 'a great visiter of ladies, a great frequenter of ...
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... had been Bishop of Chichester and his palace had been overrun by Parliamentary soldiers. According to a contemporary report, the Cromwellians did a thorough job of pillaging the Bishop's library: they 'rent the books in pieces, and ...
... had been Bishop of Chichester and his palace had been overrun by Parliamentary soldiers. According to a contemporary report, the Cromwellians did a thorough job of pillaging the Bishop's library: they 'rent the books in pieces, and ...
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... had been able to secure homage of this order, Ben having 'told them plainly he deserv'd the Bayes/For his were called Works, where others were but Plaies.' Jonson, who was much criticised for his presumption, took a hand in the ...
... had been able to secure homage of this order, Ben having 'told them plainly he deserv'd the Bayes/For his were called Works, where others were but Plaies.' Jonson, who was much criticised for his presumption, took a hand in the ...
Inhalt
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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Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography Ian Hamilton Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2011 |
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