The Romantic Poets and their Circle by Richard Holmes

The Romantic Poets and their Circle by Richard Holmes

The National Portrait Gallerys series of compact, fully illustrated, historical guides to literary and artistic personalities and themes. Written by well-known contemporary writers, they use works from the Gallerys Collection to examine the lives, thoughts and relationships within each selected group.

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 New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year. His balloon book, Falling Upwards, was a New Republic Best Book of the Yearand one of Time Magazine's Top 10 Non-fiction Books of the Year. 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 (an NBCC finalist), 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. He is the 2018 winner of the BIO Award presented by the Biographers International Organization.

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ISBN 13	9781855144774
ISBN 10	1855144778
Title	The Romantic Poets and their Circle
Author	Richard Holmes
Series	National Portrait Gallery Companions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	National Portrait Gallery Publications
Year published	2013-10-07
Number of pages	136
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