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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... John Jr began to petition for control of his father's literary estate . He denounced the existing editions as ... John Jr a share of any profits . And this , some have surmised , could have been the petition's principal objective . It ...
... John Jr began to petition for control of his father's literary estate . He denounced the existing editions as ... John Jr a share of any profits . And this , some have surmised , could have been the petition's principal objective . It ...
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... John Jr's unpopularity over the years with his father's more po- faced adherents . In all his writings there is a compulsive wish to come across as an irresistibly jocular sort of fellow , full of erudite and artful levity . This kind ...
... John Jr's unpopularity over the years with his father's more po- faced adherents . In all his writings there is a compulsive wish to come across as an irresistibly jocular sort of fellow , full of erudite and artful levity . This kind ...
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... John Donne . Vol 1 , Heinemann , 1899 , p.xiii . 6 great visiter of ladies : Sir Richard Baker , Chronicles of the Kings of England , quoted in Bald , John Donne , p 72 . 6 Prynne etc : F. A. Mumby , Publisher and Bookselling , London ...
... John Donne . Vol 1 , Heinemann , 1899 , p.xiii . 6 great visiter of ladies : Sir Richard Baker , Chronicles of the Kings of England , quoted in Bald , John Donne , p 72 . 6 Prynne etc : F. A. Mumby , Publisher and Bookselling , London ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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