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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... knew him only in his later, holy years, he would have known about the danger-spots. Donne 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 ...
... knew him only in his later, holy years, he would have known about the danger-spots. Donne 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 ...
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... knew of Aubrey's jottings was in the material Anthony Wood used for his dictionary of Oxford worthies, or was in reports of Aubrey's conversation. Unlike Aubrey, Nicholas Rowe was not the energetic type. As an editor, he peculiarly ...
... knew of Aubrey's jottings was in the material Anthony Wood used for his dictionary of Oxford worthies, or was in reports of Aubrey's conversation. Unlike Aubrey, Nicholas Rowe was not the energetic type. As an editor, he peculiarly ...
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... knew more we would worship less. James, though, was writing in an age of journalism, an age in which the superior spirit believes itself to be pursued as prey, to be tied down, examined, reduced – though never, of course, comprehended ...
... knew more we would worship less. James, though, was writing in an age of journalism, an age in which the superior spirit believes itself to be pursued as prey, to be tied down, examined, reduced – though never, of course, comprehended ...
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... knew what he would like to happen next. The poem to Congreve was written as a Prologue to that playwright's newest work, The Double Dealer, and it marked Dryden's own retirement from the theatre. When the old poet hands his laurel to ...
... knew what he would like to happen next. The poem to Congreve was written as a Prologue to that playwright's newest work, The Double Dealer, and it marked Dryden's own retirement from the theatre. When the old poet hands his laurel to ...
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... knew, Dryden had recommended other duties to his care and these were not so easy to fulfil. Two years before Dryden died, Congreve was attacked by Jeremy Collier in a View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. Dryden ...
... knew, Dryden had recommended other duties to his care and these were not so easy to fulfil. Two years before Dryden died, Congreve was attacked by Jeremy Collier in a View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage. Dryden ...
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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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Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography Ian Hamilton Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2011 |
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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