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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... believed that he would get around to organising things just as soon as he was finally ' settled in some secret nest ' out in the country . His habits of secrecy and paradox were so ingrained as to have become almost instinctual and yet ...
... believed that he would get around to organising things just as soon as he was finally ' settled in some secret nest ' out in the country . His habits of secrecy and paradox were so ingrained as to have become almost instinctual and yet ...
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... believed that , if anything could melt her Ladyship , this would : the piece activated his full armoury of lyric fire - power . But when it found its way into the public prints , Lady Byron was furious , seeing it as just another ploy ...
... believed that , if anything could melt her Ladyship , this would : the piece activated his full armoury of lyric fire - power . But when it found its way into the public prints , Lady Byron was furious , seeing it as just another ploy ...
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... believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him before he fell in love with Mary ; thus the biographer was able to exculpate Harriet without needing to accuse Shelley of anything that was not easy to forgive : - It is no part of this ...
... believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him before he fell in love with Mary ; thus the biographer was able to exculpate Harriet without needing to accuse Shelley of anything that was not easy to forgive : - It is no part of this ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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