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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Eulogies for Writers Written by Writers
The literary eulogy is an ancient art form with its own unique pressures.
Mental Floss
has gathered together 9 eulogies written for writers by their peers. Among them:
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Styron on Lillian Hellman
The Common Reader - Virginia Woolf on Joseph Conrad
Too Much Information - Jon Jeremiah Sullivan on David Foster Wallace
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