Keepers of the flame : literary estates and the rise of biography / Ian Hamilton
1992, First Edition. London : Hutchinson. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Signed and inscribed to Peter Porter. Item #442913
ISBN: 0091742633
Physical description; viii, 344 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-331) and index. Contents; John Donne the Younger -- Surviving Shakespeare -- Be kind to my remains: Marvell, Milton, Dryden -- Pope's bullies -- Boswell's colossal hoard -- The Frailties of Robert Burns -- Byron and the best of friends -- At the Shelley shrine -- John Forster, of Dickens fame -- Froude's Carlyle, Carlyle's Froude -- Keeping house: Tennyson and Swinburne -- Legends and mysteries: Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James -- Remenbering Rupert Brooke -- Authorised lives: Hardy and Kipling -- James Joyce's patron saint -- Provisional posterities: Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin. Subjects; Authors, English Biography History and criticism Theory, etc. English prose literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Executors and administrators Great Britain History. Authors ; Biography Authorship. Biography as a literary form. Authors Biography History and criticism. Biographies (literary genre). Biography (general genre). Authors. Biography as a literary form. Executors and administrators.
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