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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... knew enough about himself to know that his life - story would not , if told truthfully , be at all short of ' deep involutions of distress or sudden vicissitudes of fortune ' . He also knew , or thought he knew , that ' those relations ...
... knew enough about himself to know that his life - story would not , if told truthfully , be at all short of ' deep involutions of distress or sudden vicissitudes of fortune ' . He also knew , or thought he knew , that ' those relations ...
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... knew himself : he knew his own randiness , his irascibility , his weakness for the bottle , his easily bruised vanity , etc. He wanted to get back to his ' men's men ' , to the wenching and the taverns , to the rural melancholia , the ...
... knew himself : he knew his own randiness , his irascibility , his weakness for the bottle , his easily bruised vanity , etc. He wanted to get back to his ' men's men ' , to the wenching and the taverns , to the rural melancholia , the ...
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... knew about one of the ' bastard weans ' ; she adopted Burns's daughter by the barmaid Anna Park . The probability is that she knew most of what there was to know . Even so , she would hardly welcome a string of claimants to the Burns ...
... knew about one of the ' bastard weans ' ; she adopted Burns's daughter by the barmaid Anna Park . The probability is that she knew most of what there was to know . Even so , she would hardly welcome a string of claimants to the Burns ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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admirers appeared Bambridge believed biography Birkenhead Bolingbroke Boswell Boswell's Brooke's Burns Burns's Carlyle Carlyle's Colvin Curll Currie Davenant dead death diaries Dickens died Donne the Younger Dryden Edinburgh edition Edmund Gosse Edward Marsh Eliot fame Fanny fear feel Fettercairn Florence Forster friends Froude Froude's genius hand Hardy Hardy's Harriet Henley Henry James Hobhouse Hughes ibid James Joyce John Donne John Jr Johnson Joyce Joyce's Kipling Kipling's knew Larkin later letters literary executor living Lord Byron manuscripts Marsh Mary Memoir memory Miss Weaver Moore never papers perhaps Philip Larkin poems poet poet's Pope Pope's posterity publication published quoted Review Robert Burns Rupert Brooke seems Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's sort Stevenson story Strachey Swinburne Swinburne's Sylvia Plath T. S. Eliot Ted Hughes tell Tennyson things Thomas Hardy thought told truth verse wanted Warburton Watts-Dunton wife wished writing written wrote