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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... with the agents of disclosure. Privacy is sacred, the public has a right to know. Thus, depending on your point of view, or on the nature of your personal involvement, the biographer is either a sleaze-hound or 'an artist on oath', the ...
... with the agents of disclosure. Privacy is sacred, the public has a right to know. Thus, depending on your point of view, or on the nature of your personal involvement, the biographer is either a sleaze-hound or 'an artist on oath', the ...
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Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography Ian Hamilton. £5000, together with the renewed degradation of the pillory, the loss of what remained of the stumps of his ears, and, most infamous of all, the mutilation of both cheeks with the ...
Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography Ian Hamilton. £5000, together with the renewed degradation of the pillory, the loss of what remained of the stumps of his ears, and, most infamous of all, the mutilation of both cheeks with the ...
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... with the work. The book also carried a dozen of Donne's letters. Plans for the publication would have had to be set in motion during 1631 or 1632: years in which, as Edmund Gosse has put it, Donne's verses must have 'hung on the verge ...
... with the work. The book also carried a dozen of Donne's letters. Plans for the publication would have had to be set in motion during 1631 or 1632: years in which, as Edmund Gosse has put it, Donne's verses must have 'hung on the verge ...
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... with the poems, then, is shadowy – not to say a trifle shady. On the matter of the prose, we seem to be on surer ground. Here most chroniclers concede that it was John Jr who saved the day. We last saw Donne's prose manuscripts being ...
... with the poems, then, is shadowy – not to say a trifle shady. On the matter of the prose, we seem to be on surer ground. Here most chroniclers concede that it was John Jr who saved the day. We last saw Donne's prose manuscripts being ...
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... with the weathercock, adulate with Aristippus, equivocate with Synon, dissemble with Gnatho, hunt with the Hound, and hold with the Hare, carry fire in the one hand, and water in the other; and in a word, who cannot temporise at all ...
... with the weathercock, adulate with Aristippus, equivocate with Synon, dissemble with Gnatho, hunt with the Hound, and hold with the Hare, carry fire in the one hand, and water in the other; and in a word, who cannot temporise at all ...
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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 |
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