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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... Hobhouse ( later on Lord Broughton ) , one of his oldest and most loyal friends ; adviser , confidant , financial go - between , but remembered now for his contri- bution to English literature's best - known act of executive vandalism ...
... Hobhouse ( later on Lord Broughton ) , one of his oldest and most loyal friends ; adviser , confidant , financial go - between , but remembered now for his contri- bution to English literature's best - known act of executive vandalism ...
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... Hobhouse , ' but I protest against your protestation . ' A little scene in Hobhouse's rooms conveys a sense of the prevailing atmosphere of bullying and bluster . The interested parties had gathered there before setting off to Murray's ...
... Hobhouse , ' but I protest against your protestation . ' A little scene in Hobhouse's rooms conveys a sense of the prevailing atmosphere of bullying and bluster . The interested parties had gathered there before setting off to Murray's ...
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... Hobhouse , who is on his way to Great Britain . Hobhouse could not so easily rationalise this new disparagement . The phrase ' after a year's experience of Mr Hobhouse ' seemed , at a stroke , to cancel out a fondly remembered stretch ...
... Hobhouse , who is on his way to Great Britain . Hobhouse could not so easily rationalise this new disparagement . The phrase ' after a year's experience of Mr Hobhouse ' seemed , at a stroke , to cancel out a fondly remembered stretch ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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