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Pope as a Commercial Writer: A New Image of the Poet as Compared with Curll
[in Japanese]
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FUKUMOTO Tadayuki
… He saw to it that a biography of a late author was published soon after he was dead, because he knew the commercial value of a biography depended chiefly on the freshness of the hero in people's minds. … Contemporary feelings towards these instant biographies by Curll were well expressed in Arbuthnot's words: "a new terror had been added to death." Actually Curll under the pseudonym of William Ayre wrote a biography of Pope and published it the year after the poet's death. …
Journal of Ryukoku University 477, 34-47, 2011-03-01
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