The book explores the relationship between an impossibly eccentric contemporary composer and his grudging biographer. |
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Interestingly, Larkin's friend and biographer Andrew Motion went on to become the first academic holder of the poet laureateship. |
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Except for writers of obituaries and elegies, no serious biographer judges his subject under the aspect of eternity. |
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He may have painted Madonnas beautifully but his first biographer Vasari suggested his death was not due to fever but to amatory excess. |
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Pedants pounce on such tell-tale signs that what purports to be an image of Shakespeare is really an idealised image of the biographer himself. |
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The film critic and biographer has been commissioned to tidy up the novel and write an afterword to set the book in context. |
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The biographer must always be doubted, cross-questioned, read between the lines. |
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But there was another side to this English poet, novelist, journalist, biographer and controversialist. |
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The biographer of one of our biggest stars fills us in on a big star who lived large and died broke. |
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In practice, the biographer has to choose not between lively and dull, but more subtly and perplexingly, between candid and glib. |
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The biographer delicately demonstrates the impact of this tumultuous childhood on the poet's work, without resorting to cod psychology. |
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He was a good parson, and I am happy to have been introduced to his life by such a reliable biographer. |
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It was Hodgkin, famously, who outed Bruce Chatwin in an interview with biographer Nicholas Shakespeare. |
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We cannot control what other's write about us, and today's critic may be tomorrow's biographer and obituarist. |
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Experiencing a mild hallucination of this sort is a good sign for the biographer, Geoff insists. |
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But it's also extraordinary that they can be faithfully reported by a biographer who seems committed to hagiography. |
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While it is almost inevitable that a biographer will either be a hagiographer or a betrayer, his betrayals are, actually, of a special order. |
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Alexandra Lapierre, award-winning French novelist and biographer, has produced a book that combines biography, fiction and scholarship. |
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The biographer resolved to ascertain whether George really did wear boots and spurs, and smoke Virginian in a short pipe. |
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One biographer assumes that he was a boy of somewhat ordinary talents that would fit him only for the mercantile trade. |
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A biographer in search of a subject must usually cast about among people who have achieved something. |
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Drummund, who was also a biographer for Billy Graham, wrote an excellent biography on Finney which deals with this. |
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To read this paraphrase in context we really need the help of a good literary biographer and social historian. |
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The author is a respected political biographer who interviewed many of the former prime minister's cabinet. |
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The story is told by Michelangelo's pupil and biographer Condivi and is therefore presumably true in essentials. |
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The son of an engraver, he is said by his 17th-century biographer to have worked in Germany. |
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I was not sure whether the problem lay with the subject or with the biographer. |
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He had an exceptionally retentive visual memory, and his biographer attested to frequent instances of recollections decades old. |
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His elder sister is the biographer Antonia Fraser and four other siblings also write books. |
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In these circumstances a biographer might be wise to say as little as possible beyond the bare bones of recorded fact. |
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Hadrian, we are informed by his fourth-century biographer, built his wall to divide the Romans from the barbarians. |
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He departs agreeably from the normal procedures of the biographer, sometimes a little in the manner of The Quest for Corvo. |
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He was also a man of letters and had a parallel career as a writer, medical biographer, and historian. |
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Band biographer John Robb who has live-tweeted nearly every reunion show they've done reported a triumph. |
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He also began work on his life of 17th century biographer and antiquarian John Aubrey. |
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He was called to the Irish bar in 1951 and has earned a reputation as an esteemed playwright, poet and biographer. |
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Macaulay was a prolific poet, essayist, novelist, biographer and correspondent, whose life was a complex mixture of public and private. |
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Plutarch wrote in his native Greek and was a prolific essayist, philosopher, biographer, and historian. |
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Service is the first major biographer of Trotsky to portray him as myopic villain instead of defeated prophet. |
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He swears by a Turkish tailor named Mustapha near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, his biographer has claimed. |
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After years of failing to earn out his advances, bellow was, as his biographer James Atlas has noted, suddenly a wealthy man. |
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But any biographer of the novel faces a problem more fundamental than compressing between two covers a vast and unwieldy subject. |
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But Nelson Mandela made peace with death 50 years ago, says his official biographer Charlene Smith. |
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As left-wing biographer Rick Perlstein grants, Goldwater was a man of color-blind temperament, conviction, and personal action. |
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Last documented by the artist's biographer Gian Pietro Bellori in 1672, this hugely influential work disappeared shortly afterward, resurfacing again only now. |
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Giacometti had an exceptionally powerful and retentive visual memory, and his biographer attested to frequent instances of recollections decades old. |
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Now that CIA director David Petraeus has stepped down, citing an extramarital affair, his biographer is in the spotlight. |
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No historian, biographer, or myth-maker such as Carl Sandberg has ever written about his sensuality. |
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The biographer would enjoy no autonomy or independence whatsoever. |
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According to the biographer, he was the pupil of a glass painter. |
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For her part, Ophelia handed over the task of biographer to Sturrock, and is a prominent social justice and health-care advocate. |
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But it did not take a private detective or a biographer like Walter Isaacson to uncover these transgressions. |
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It's very rare for a sporting biographer to have simultaneously a genuine intimacy with their subject and the latitude to call a life as they see it. |
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We are asked by the author, a biographer not only of Charles Dickens but of London too, to contemplate the novelist unbuttoned, in peep-show dishabille. |
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But it is not inevitable that a biographer should have fallen under the sway of an immor al fibster. |
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Southey was also a prolific letter writer, literary scholar, essay writer, historian and biographer. |
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Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. |
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About the same time, he began his intimacy with his future biographer, Thomas Moore. |
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According to biographer Melvin Urofsky, Brandeis was influenced greatly by his uncle Lewis Naphtali Dembitz. |
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His most recent biographer, the historian Norman Macdougall, argued strongly for late May 1452 at St Andrews, Fife. |
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The earliest accounts of these seizures were made by the biographer Suetonius, who was born after Caesar died. |
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After school, she joined the WRNS and married Richard Hough, the biographer, with whom she had five children. |
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Another biographer of Harold, Peter Rex, after discussing the various accounts, concludes that it is not possible to declare how Harold died. |
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According to his biographer, Hunter Davies, he left everything, including his house and royalty income, to Betty. |
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Their youngest son, John Guille Millais, became a notable naturalist, wildlife artist, and Millais's posthumous biographer. |
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But biographer, like biographee, is only human, too, and the good Foster has his lapses as well. |
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Diarist and biographer James Boswell saw Hume a few weeks before his death, which was from some form of abdominal cancer. |
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Ruskin's biographer, Mary Lutyens, suggested that he rejected Effie because he was horrified by the sight of her pubic hair. |
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According to Osborne's biographer Luc Gilleman, the film garnered little attention. |
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However, to this day she is lauded in her native Russia more as a biographer, publicist, translator, and memoirist than as a fiction writer. |
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Around 800, Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, appointed Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, as abbot of both abbeys. |
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His biographer Asser gave a detailed description of Alfred's symptoms and this has allowed modern doctors to provide a possible diagnosis. |
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Sea Wife was not a successful venture, with biographer Munn observing that his salary was the only positive feature that came from the film. |
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According to biographer Roy Jenkins, this is one reason why he took an interest in war correspondence. |
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Although Richard also played cricket, tennis, and table tennis, biographer Bragg notes rugby union football to be his greatest interest. |
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Anselm arrived in Rome by April and, according to his biographer Eadmer, lived beside the pope during the Siege of Capua in May. |
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His reasons for doing so are unknown, but the biographer Bernard Glassman surmises that it was to avoid being confused with his father. |
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However, Sellers's performance is regarded as being on par with that of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, according to biographer Peter Evans. |
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Letters published by Olivier's authorised biographer Terry Coleman also indicate an affair with the actor Henry Ainley. |
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However, Lloyd Webber's biographer, John Snelson, countered such accusations. |
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Are you the first Rockefeller biographer to use either of those? |
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According to Wilfrid's later biographer, Stephen of Ripon, Wilfrid left Biscop's company at Lyon, where Wilfrid stayed under the patronage of Annemund, the archbishop. |
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Nevertheless, he was on good terms with the wealthier citizens and a close friend of Walter Ghim, the twelve times mayor and Mercator's future biographer. |
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According to his early biographer Willibald, Boniface started to chop the oak down, when suddenly a great wind, as if by miracle, blew the ancient oak over. |
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It has been claimed that he studied under Abraham Zacuto, an astrologer and astronomer, but da Gama's biographer Subrahmanyam thinks this dubious. |
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Other major Greek authors of the Empire include the biographer and antiquarian Plutarch, the geographer Strabo, and the rhetorician and satirist Lucian. |
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Going even further, biographer Andrew Hodges suggests Turing arranged the cyanide experiment deliberately to allow his mother plausible deniability. |
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This absorbing doorstopper from acclaimed biographer Adam Sisman promises to change that with a study informed by hundreds of hours' access to the man himself. |
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Frayn's wife, Claire Tomalin, is a biographer and literary journalist. |
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She did appoint Malcolm Muggeridge as official biographer, but later biographers have seen this as deliberate spoiling as Muggeridge eventually gave up the work. |
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Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. |
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John acted as a secretary, and Edward was Milton's first biographer. |
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He first acted under the name Alf Hill then changed it to Benny which many, according to his biographer Mark Lewisohn, say was a tribute to US comic Jack Benny. |
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They developed a close friendship, described by James's biographer Leon Edel as resembling a father and son relationship in some, but not all, respects. |
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According to biographer John Ehrman, Pitt inherited brilliance and dynamism from his father's line, and a determined, methodical nature from the Grenvilles. |
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A list of history paintings produced by van Dyck in England survives, compiled by Van Dyck's biographer Bellori, based on information from Sir Kenelm Digby. |
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Nevertheless, Wordsworth's biographer Mary Moorman, notes that Dorothy was excluded from the poem, even though she had seen the daffodils together with Wordsworth. |
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