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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... asked his executor Edward Mendelson to assist in ' making a biography impossible ' . ' Biographies are always superfluous and usually in bad taste , ' he used to say , and when he died the estate published his request that friends ...
... asked his executor Edward Mendelson to assist in ' making a biography impossible ' . ' Biographies are always superfluous and usually in bad taste , ' he used to say , and when he died the estate published his request that friends ...
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... asked for certain cuts , not all of these were self - defensive . He removed ' some wicked comments about people she knew ' and a few of the more ' syrupy ' descriptions of himself . The book's editor , Frances McCollough , was ' amazed ...
... asked for certain cuts , not all of these were self - defensive . He removed ' some wicked comments about people she knew ' and a few of the more ' syrupy ' descriptions of himself . The book's editor , Frances McCollough , was ' amazed ...
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... asked me : Anne Stevenson , ' The Making of Bitter Fame ' , unpublished lecture , October 1990 . 302 It was clear to me : ibid . 303 that his first wife's grave : Julia Parnaby and Rachel Wingfield , letter to the Guardian , 7 April ...
... asked me : Anne Stevenson , ' The Making of Bitter Fame ' , unpublished lecture , October 1990 . 302 It was clear to me : ibid . 303 that his first wife's grave : Julia Parnaby and Rachel Wingfield , letter to the Guardian , 7 April ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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