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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... living author could just about control the publication of his works. The dead author was fair game, unless there was someone to pursue his cause with vigour. Although not officially his father's executor, John Jr decided to appoint ...
... living author could just about control the publication of his works. The dead author was fair game, unless there was someone to pursue his cause with vigour. Although not officially his father's executor, John Jr decided to appoint ...
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... father's comic resourcefulness, but pointlessly. There is even a suggestion in one of his pieces that Donne Sr's elaborate funeral arrangements are being offered as good for a laugh: Earth is the Womb from whence all living came, So.
... father's comic resourcefulness, but pointlessly. There is even a suggestion in one of his pieces that Donne Sr's elaborate funeral arrangements are being offered as good for a laugh: Earth is the Womb from whence all living came, So.
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... living came, So is't the tomb, all go unto the same; And as at first all naked thence were born, So as naked thither all at last return; Unless they carry thence a Winding sheet, To hide their weak frail nakedness, most meet. John Jr's ...
... living came, So is't the tomb, all go unto the same; And as at first all naked thence were born, So as naked thither all at last return; Unless they carry thence a Winding sheet, To hide their weak frail nakedness, most meet. John Jr's ...
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... living and 'a musical Glory' for the dead: 'I will gravely tell thee he who writes an Heroick poem leaves an estate entailed; and he gives a greater gift to Posterity, than to the Present Age.' To Davenant's foes, such lofty talk was ...
... living and 'a musical Glory' for the dead: 'I will gravely tell thee he who writes an Heroick poem leaves an estate entailed; and he gives a greater gift to Posterity, than to the Present Age.' To Davenant's foes, such lofty talk was ...
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... living witness' as Rowe could hope to get. There are grounds for suspecting that by this time in his life Betterton had worked up a nice line in Shakespeare-Davenant stories, but Rowe was presumably eager to accept whatever he was given ...
... living witness' as Rowe could hope to get. There are grounds for suspecting that by this time in his life Betterton had worked up a nice line in Shakespeare-Davenant stories, but Rowe was presumably eager to accept whatever he was given ...
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