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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... Writing and the Life - or the Repute - were not perceived as controversial . When Izaak Walton set to work on his ' best plain picture ' of the Life of Donne there was in English no such title as ' biographer ' . Anecdotalists ...
... Writing and the Life - or the Repute - were not perceived as controversial . When Izaak Walton set to work on his ' best plain picture ' of the Life of Donne there was in English no such title as ' biographer ' . Anecdotalists ...
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... writing a new investigative curiosity even as Romanticism introduced into writers ' lives a new propensity for ' scandalous ' malpractice . The Romantics mistrusted the desanctifying tendencies of Boswellism and yet , in their private ...
... writing a new investigative curiosity even as Romanticism introduced into writers ' lives a new propensity for ' scandalous ' malpractice . The Romantics mistrusted the desanctifying tendencies of Boswellism and yet , in their private ...
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... writing . I am informally connected with a couple of new and impecunious papers . . . I also collect for two American magazines which pay top rates . I am bonae voluntatis - don't in the least know that I can be of any use to you or you ...
... writing . I am informally connected with a couple of new and impecunious papers . . . I also collect for two American magazines which pay top rates . I am bonae voluntatis - don't in the least know that I can be of any use to you or you ...
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John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
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Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography Ian Hamilton Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2011 |
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