Coleridge by Richard Holmes
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmess seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britains greatest poets.Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was one of the ten New York Times’ Best Books of the Year in 2009. His balloon book, Falling Upwards, was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by seven newspapers in 2013. His other biographies include Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the 1974 Somerset Maugham Prize), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Duff Cooper Prize), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the 1993 James Tait Black Prize). This Long Pursuit completes the autobiographical trilogy begun in Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). Holmes was awarded the OBE in 1992, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 2010. He is the 2018 winner of the BIO Award presented by the Biographers International Organization for sustained achievement in biography. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002555777 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002555778 |
| Title | Coleridge |
| Author | Richard Holmes |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1998-10-19 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Prizes | Winner of Authors' Club Marsh Biography Award 1999, Winner of Marsh Biography Award 1999, Winner of Duff Cooper Prize 1999, Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 1999 |
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