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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... been at King's urging that Donne had prepared some of his sermons for possible future publication but the executor printed only one of them, the last. The mass of material left in his care – sermons, poems, letters, disquisitions,
... been at King's urging that Donne had prepared some of his sermons for possible future publication but the executor printed only one of them, the last. The mass of material left in his care – sermons, poems, letters, disquisitions,
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... Poems (1633). Poems included the 'Songs and Sonnets' that most people now think of as Donne's finest work. was So far as we can tell, both publications were unauthorised: but then 'authorised' did not mean much in the 1630s. In theory ...
... Poems (1633). Poems included the 'Songs and Sonnets' that most people now think of as Donne's finest work. was So far as we can tell, both publications were unauthorised: but then 'authorised' did not mean much in the 1630s. In theory ...
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... poems in his will; during his lifetime, he spoke of them but rarely and then with – in the main – superb offhandedness. Poetry, he would say, was the mistress of his youth; divinity was the wife of his maturity. His tenebrous early ...
... poems in his will; during his lifetime, he spoke of them but rarely and then with – in the main – superb offhandedness. Poetry, he would say, was the mistress of his youth; divinity was the wife of his maturity. His tenebrous early ...
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... poems.' The 1633 edition of Donne's poems was printed by one Thomas Marriot, who explained that he had produced the book in haste so as to forestall any foreign piracy: a thin tale, when one considers how difficult it would have been ...
... poems.' The 1633 edition of Donne's poems was printed by one Thomas Marriot, who explained that he had produced the book in haste so as to forestall any foreign piracy: a thin tale, when one considers how difficult it would have been ...
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... poems to his son, for whom he entertained clerical ambitions. The middle- aged friends who helped to organise the ... poems from the Marriot edition. John Jr's link with the poems, then, is shadowy – not to say a trifle shady. On the ...
... poems to his son, for whom he entertained clerical ambitions. The middle- aged friends who helped to organise the ... poems from the Marriot edition. John Jr's link with the poems, then, is shadowy – not to say a trifle shady. On the ...
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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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