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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... probably never become more ( or less ) believable than they were when he first heard them . The problem was - and is that Shakespeare seems not to have had the kind of friends who wrote things down . Also his fame as a writer was in ...
... probably never become more ( or less ) believable than they were when he first heard them . The problem was - and is that Shakespeare seems not to have had the kind of friends who wrote things down . Also his fame as a writer was in ...
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... probably was that the Boswell heirs had had a bonfire and were reluctant to admit it ; and he believed he had some other grounds for thinking so . Malone , in a footnote to the fifth edition of Boswell's Life , made reference to a ...
... probably was that the Boswell heirs had had a bonfire and were reluctant to admit it ; and he believed he had some other grounds for thinking so . Malone , in a footnote to the fifth edition of Boswell's Life , made reference to a ...
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... probably was undecided but perhaps not seriously troubled one way or the other : he had never made any secret of his early debts to Yeats and Auden , and several of the unpublished later pieces had been shown to friends . On the diaries ...
... probably was undecided but perhaps not seriously troubled one way or the other : he had never made any secret of his early debts to Yeats and Auden , and several of the unpublished later pieces had been shown to friends . On the diaries ...
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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