The Romantic Poets and Their Circle by Richard Holmes

The Romantic Poets and Their Circle by Richard Holmes

Part of the "Character Sketches" series, this title looks at Elizabethan writers. The series features compact guides devoted to literary, artistic and historic personalities, circles and themes. They contain portaits in a variety of media, all selected from the National Portrait Gallery's diverse collection. The illustrations are accompanied by substantial and relevant quotations from the works of the people featured, as well as contemporary descriptions and anecdotes from unpublished as well as published source. The books should be of interest to general readers and students alike. Richard Holmes is the author of "Shelley: The Pursuit" (which on the Somerset Maugham Award, "Coleridge: Early Visions" (which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award) and "Dr Johnson & Mr Savage".

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, was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, and was one of The New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year in 2009. His other books include Falling Upwards, Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (an NBCC finalist), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the James Tait Blake Prize). Holmes is an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in Great Britain.

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ISBN 13	9781855142015
ISBN 10	1855142015
Title	The Romantic Poets and Their Circle
Author	Richard Holmes
Series	Character Sketches
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	National Portrait Gallery Publications
Year published	1997-06-27
Number of pages	64
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