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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... English poet Chaucer ' , had a clear enough image of an English literary family tree : For Spenser and Fairfax both flourished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth : Great Masters in our Language ; and who saw much further into the Beauties ...
... English poet Chaucer ' , had a clear enough image of an English literary family tree : For Spenser and Fairfax both flourished in the reign of Queen Elizabeth : Great Masters in our Language ; and who saw much further into the Beauties ...
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... English ; hence ' personality ' , ' indiscretion ' , or worse ' sanctities of private life ' , etc. How delicate , decent , is English biography , bless its mealy mouth ! A Damocles sword of Respectability hangs forever over the poor ...
... English ; hence ' personality ' , ' indiscretion ' , or worse ' sanctities of private life ' , etc. How delicate , decent , is English biography , bless its mealy mouth ! A Damocles sword of Respectability hangs forever over the poor ...
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... English Bards and Scotch Reviewers , 109 ' Fare Thee Well ' , 111 Greek adventure , 111 , 112 , 113 , 123 Hours of Idleness , 120 Manfred , 125 marriage separation controversy , 110-11 , 124 , 125 , 133 , 218 , 219 Memoirs , 114-18 ...
... English Bards and Scotch Reviewers , 109 ' Fare Thee Well ' , 111 Greek adventure , 111 , 112 , 113 , 123 Hours of Idleness , 120 Manfred , 125 marriage separation controversy , 110-11 , 124 , 125 , 133 , 218 , 219 Memoirs , 114-18 ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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