Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes’s classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes’s biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ forever. Holmes’s Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was. This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge’s career (1804-1834) during which he travelled restlessly through the Mediterranean, returned to his old haunts in the Lake District and the West Country, and finally settled in Highgate. It was a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage broke up, his opium addiction increased, he quarrelled with Wordsworth, his own son Hartley Coleridge (a gifted poet himself) became an alcoholic. And after a desperate time of transition, Coleridge re-emerged on the literary scene as a new kind of philosophical and meditative author.
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Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes’s classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.
’One of the greatest biographies of the century. Pure 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
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• Holmes’s first book, Shelley: The Pursuit, won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions won the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize in 1989; and Dr Johnson & Mr Savage won the James Tait Black Prize in 1993 • Coleridge: Darker Reflections was acclaimed on hardback publication by unanimous rave reviews. It was 1998 Book of the Year for a staggering 21 reviewers, including, among many others, Michael Foot, Doris Lessing, Anita Brookner and Alan Massie • Perennial reissue will coincide with a complete reinvigoration of Holmes’s impressive backlist.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780007204564
Publisert
2005-12-05
Utgiver
Vendor
HarperPerennial
Vekt
470 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
35 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
640

Forfatter

Biographical note

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.