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 44
... story of publishing in the last two or three decades of the seventeenth century is a story of deepening nervousness on the part of the regular publishers as they saw the controls that had protected them , however changeably , since 1557 ...
... story of publishing in the last two or three decades of the seventeenth century is a story of deepening nervousness on the part of the regular publishers as they saw the controls that had protected them , however changeably , since 1557 ...
Page 210
... stories of the 1890s , James has ' legendary ' authors as objects of awed and baffled scrutiny and in each story there is a strangely intense savouring of the thwartedness of those who would wish to penetrate and / or appropriate the ...
... stories of the 1890s , James has ' legendary ' authors as objects of awed and baffled scrutiny and in each story there is a strangely intense savouring of the thwartedness of those who would wish to penetrate and / or appropriate the ...
Page 212
... Story ( Withermore ? Wetmore ? The dates do fit . ) A promise to do the Story Life had been ' gouged ' out of him years before by the family : - - a promise first to ' look at ' the late W.W.S.'s papers and then to write a memorial ...
... Story ( Withermore ? Wetmore ? The dates do fit . ) A promise to do the Story Life had been ' gouged ' out of him years before by the family : - - a promise first to ' look at ' the late W.W.S.'s papers and then to write a memorial ...
Contents
John Donne the Younger | 7 |
Surviving Shakespeare | 16 |
Marvell Milton Dryden | 30 |
Copyright | |
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