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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... memory , as we shall see , but the hero- worship ran deep and was unshakeable . From this point of view , the timing of events could hardly have been better . Shakespeare's First Folio - the first attempt at a collected edition of his ...
... memory , as we shall see , but the hero- worship ran deep and was unshakeable . From this point of view , the timing of events could hardly have been better . Shakespeare's First Folio - the first attempt at a collected edition of his ...
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... memory of Shelley left us no other alternative than to withdraw the materials which we had originally trusted to his early friend and which we could not but consider had been seriously misused . ' It seems unlikely that Hogg could have ...
... memory of Shelley left us no other alternative than to withdraw the materials which we had originally trusted to his early friend and which we could not but consider had been seriously misused . ' It seems unlikely that Hogg could have ...
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... Memory ' in Cats ? ' Memory ' , says the sleevenote of the Cats LP , ' includes lines from and suggested by " Rhapsody on a Windy Night " ' together with ' additional material by Trevor Nunn ' . Eliot loved the music - hall , we know ...
... Memory ' in Cats ? ' Memory ' , says the sleevenote of the Cats LP , ' includes lines from and suggested by " Rhapsody on a Windy Night " ' together with ' additional material by Trevor Nunn ' . Eliot loved the music - hall , we know ...
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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