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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... genius : The very circumstance of Burns having pourtrayed himself in such vivid colours , is a decisive proof of his superior genius . It is not often that the real character of an authour appears in his works . Inferior minds shrink ...
... genius : The very circumstance of Burns having pourtrayed himself in such vivid colours , is a decisive proof of his superior genius . It is not often that the real character of an authour appears in his works . Inferior minds shrink ...
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... genius : here was an opportunity to probe the connection between the mysteries of literary giftedness and his other speciality , the menace of alcohol abuse . Burns's life , he pronounced , was one ' in which virtue and passion had been ...
... genius : here was an opportunity to probe the connection between the mysteries of literary giftedness and his other speciality , the menace of alcohol abuse . Burns's life , he pronounced , was one ' in which virtue and passion had been ...
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... Genius of Lord Byron ; Anecdotes of Lord Byron from Authentic Sources ; Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron ; Inquiry into the Moral Character of Lord Byron , and half a dozen others . The burning of the Memoirs ...
... Genius of Lord Byron ; Anecdotes of Lord Byron from Authentic Sources ; Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron ; Inquiry into the Moral Character of Lord Byron , and half a dozen others . The burning of the Memoirs ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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