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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... Pope are perhaps clearer to us now than they were in 1738. It so happens that the theologian had more than once spoken harshly about Pope : ' Dryden borrowed for want of leisure and Pope for want of genius ' was one of his recorded mots ...
... Pope are perhaps clearer to us now than they were in 1738. It so happens that the theologian had more than once spoken harshly about Pope : ' Dryden borrowed for want of leisure and Pope for want of genius ' was one of his recorded mots ...
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... Pope's unpublished papers , he discovered that a work of his own , The Idea of a Patriot King , had been secretly printed by Pope in an edition of 1500 copies . It seems that he had given Pope the manuscript in 1738 , with the ...
... Pope's unpublished papers , he discovered that a work of his own , The Idea of a Patriot King , had been secretly printed by Pope in an edition of 1500 copies . It seems that he had given Pope the manuscript in 1738 , with the ...
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... Pope . The artist who did the engraving has testified that Warburton insisted on being made ' the principal figure , and Pope only secondary in the picture , and that in consequence , the light , contrary to the rules of art , goes ...
... Pope . The artist who did the engraving has testified that Warburton insisted on being made ' the principal figure , and Pope only secondary in the picture , and that in consequence , the light , contrary to the rules of art , goes ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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