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Coleridge: Early Visions
Richard Holmes
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Description for Coleridge: Early Visions
Paperback. Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. Num Pages: 432 pages, 16 b/w plates (16pp). BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 334.
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. `Coleridge: Early Visions' is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of `Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an opium addict, plagiarist, political apostate and mystic charlatan, Richard Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of the page as ... Read more
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. `Coleridge: Early Visions' is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of `Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an opium addict, plagiarist, political apostate and mystic charlatan, Richard Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of the page as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007204571
SKU
V9780007204571
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Ref
99-71
About Richard Holmes
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Coleridge: Early Visions
`Dazzling...Holmes has not merely reinterpreted Coleridge; he has recreated him, and his biography has the aura of fiction, the shimmer of an authentic portrait...a biography like few I have ever read.' James Wood, Guardian `A deeply moving life of a troubled genius. From a great ... Read more