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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... marriage, the sponging, prospectless, near-suicidal years in Mitcham. These would have to be referred to, of course, but without revealing any of Donne's tendency to opportunism, both spiritual and professional (not to mention spiritual ...
... marriage, the sponging, prospectless, near-suicidal years in Mitcham. These would have to be referred to, of course, but without revealing any of Donne's tendency to opportunism, both spiritual and professional (not to mention spiritual ...
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... married John Jr's mother, but even so: was it not rumoured that Donne Sr's young manhood had been deeply stormy and profane, that at one time he had been 'a great visiter of ladies, a great frequenter of playes, a great writer of ...
... married John Jr's mother, but even so: was it not rumoured that Donne Sr's young manhood had been deeply stormy and profane, that at one time he had been 'a great visiter of ladies, a great frequenter of playes, a great writer of ...
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... marriage of Cromwell's daughter. After all, he was – he supposed – still Poet Laureate. Somehow Davenant kept his 'theatre' going and after a time even managed to stage some of his productions at the Phoenix. With the Restoration he was ...
... marriage of Cromwell's daughter. After all, he was – he supposed – still Poet Laureate. Somehow Davenant kept his 'theatre' going and after a time even managed to stage some of his productions at the Phoenix. With the Restoration he was ...
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... married – and for the absence of 'any lawrel upon his coffin, which [Aubrey presumed] was forgotten'. Although the inscription on his marble – 'O rare Sir Will' – echoed Ben Jonson's, in most of the numerous eulogies that followed his ...
... married – and for the absence of 'any lawrel upon his coffin, which [Aubrey presumed] was forgotten'. Although the inscription on his marble – 'O rare Sir Will' – echoed Ben Jonson's, in most of the numerous eulogies that followed his ...
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... married. And in 1776, Edward Thompson entered his agreement: After the death of Mr Marvell, a work was published, said to contain the compositions already published, and other posthumous writings of the late ingenious Mr Marvell, by a ...
... married. And in 1776, Edward Thompson entered his agreement: After the death of Mr Marvell, a work was published, said to contain the compositions already published, and other posthumous writings of the late ingenious Mr Marvell, by a ...
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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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