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Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography
Ian Hamilton
Literary biography is an endlessly fascinating form, not least because of the fierce controversies that attend the question of how much of a writer's real life ought to be related to readers. This title charts the course of literary biography from Donne and Shakespeare to Plath and Larkin.
352 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 18, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780571281671 |
| Publishers | Faber & Faber |
| Pages | 352 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 232 × 29 mm · 548 g |
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