Coleridge by Richard Holmes
Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmess classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.’One of the greatest biographies of the centuryPure joy to read, it is a shimmering portrait of the mature artist veering between brilliance and despair’ Financial Times
’This – and I can’t remember ever thinking this before so strongly – is a biography to grow old with’ Independent
Richard Holmes is Professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia, and editor of the Harper Perennial series Classic Biographies launched in 2004. His is a Fellow of the British Academy, has honorary doctorates from UEA and the Tavistock Institute, and was awarded an OBE in 1992.
His first book, Shelley: The Pursuit, won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, and Dr Johnson & Mr Savage won the James Tait Black Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award. He has published two studies of European biography, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer in 1985, and Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer in 2000.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007204564 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007204566 |
| Title | Coleridge |
| Author | Richard Holmes |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2005-12-05 |
| Number of pages | 640 |
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