Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of BiographyHutchinson, 1992 - 344 Seiten Many of our most treasured works of literature, including John Donne's sonnets and Shakespeare's plays, have been preserved more by accident than by design. Key writings from the past have been burned, stolen, suppressed or edited by widows or friends anxious to preserve a sanitized image of the writer in question, sometimes for profit or self-aggrandizement. |
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... Boswell ' felt no little elation at having now so happily established an acquaintance of which I had been so long ambitious ' , and when it began to seem ... Boswell who must bear the responsibility . . . Boswell 71 BOSWELL'S COLOSSAL HOARD.
... Boswell ' felt no little elation at having now so happily established an acquaintance of which I had been so long ambitious ' , and when it began to seem ... Boswell who must bear the responsibility . . . Boswell 71 BOSWELL'S COLOSSAL HOARD.
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... Boswell's 17 - year - old second son had come of age . This son , James , had been Boswell's favourite : ' An extraordinary boy . . . He is much of his father . ' The new Laird of Auchinleck , and Boswell's heir , was Alexander , and he ...
... Boswell's 17 - year - old second son had come of age . This son , James , had been Boswell's favourite : ' An extraordinary boy . . . He is much of his father . ' The new Laird of Auchinleck , and Boswell's heir , was Alexander , and he ...
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... Boswell can be attributed . ' At the back of Croker's mind , the suspicion probably was that the Boswell heirs had had a bonfire and were reluctant to admit it ; and he believed he had some other grounds for thinking so . Malone , in a ...
... Boswell can be attributed . ' At the back of Croker's mind , the suspicion probably was that the Boswell heirs had had a bonfire and were reluctant to admit it ; and he believed he had some other grounds for thinking so . Malone , in a ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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