The Art of Literary Biography
Batchelor, John![The Art of Literary Biography](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/226/22670961/CHSBZCOP0322670961.jpg)
Is literary biography so widely read for popular, 'prurient' reasons, or for reputable intellectual reasons? Is it of interest only in so far as it illuminates a writer's work? How much can we know about a life, such as Shakespeare's, where the documentation is so scanty? These are among the questions addressed by the seventeen leading biographers and literary critics who have contributed essays to John Batchelor's The Art of Literary Biograph...