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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Page 10
... manuscripts being stored away in the cabinet of Henry King . When next heard of , they are somehow in the possession of John Jr and are being prepared for a stage - by - stage publishing programme that ran well into the 1660s . How this ...
... manuscripts being stored away in the cabinet of Henry King . When next heard of , they are somehow in the possession of John Jr and are being prepared for a stage - by - stage publishing programme that ran well into the 1660s . How this ...
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... manuscripts was set to one side : some of it was at Auchinleck , some still in the hands of the executors and some with James , who lived in London . Alexander perhaps did not even open the boxes stored at Auchinleck ; James showed an ...
... manuscripts was set to one side : some of it was at Auchinleck , some still in the hands of the executors and some with James , who lived in London . Alexander perhaps did not even open the boxes stored at Auchinleck ; James showed an ...
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... manuscript of the Memoirs to the poet Thomas Moore . So far as Byron was concerned , this handing - over had made perfect sense . He liked Moore , and Moore was short of money . By using the Memoirs to raise a loan from John Murray ...
... manuscript of the Memoirs to the poet Thomas Moore . So far as Byron was concerned , this handing - over had made perfect sense . He liked Moore , and Moore was short of money . By using the Memoirs to raise a loan from John Murray ...
Contents
John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
Copyright | |
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Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography Ian Hamilton No preview available - 2011 |
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