Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of BiographyMany 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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... Forster , ' long before ' Dickens's death , ' ceased to believe that I [ Forster ] should survive to write about him ' . The son of a Newcastle cattle - dealer , John Forster came to London as a law - student in the 1830s and within ...
... Forster , ' long before ' Dickens's death , ' ceased to believe that I [ Forster ] should survive to write about him ' . The son of a Newcastle cattle - dealer , John Forster came to London as a law - student in the 1830s and within ...
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... Forster was no doubt there from the beginning and with the hard - up , almost washed - up Hunt there was an open invitation to manipulate , to supervise , to condescend . Forster's later ' great patron king ' demeanour presumably owed ...
... Forster was no doubt there from the beginning and with the hard - up , almost washed - up Hunt there was an open invitation to manipulate , to supervise , to condescend . Forster's later ' great patron king ' demeanour presumably owed ...
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... Forster was himself regularly seen : disciples do tend to be catty about co- disciples . Even Forster's own devotees , however , found it hard to view him separately from what - he - did - for - Dickens : ' As I look back , ' wrote ...
... Forster was himself regularly seen : disciples do tend to be catty about co- disciples . Even Forster's own devotees , however , found it hard to view him separately from what - he - did - for - Dickens : ' As I look back , ' wrote ...
Contents
John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
Copyright | |
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