Coleridge - Richard Holmes

Coleridge

Early Visions

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
432 Seiten
1998
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-255576-0 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
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The first volume of Richard Holmes’s two-volume biography of Coleridge, which won the 1989 Whitbread Prize for book of the year and which transforms our view of this greatest of Romantic poets.


Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of a major new biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge which will transform 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 a brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking figure who invades the imagination.


This is an act of biographical recreation which brings back to life the poetry, Coleridge’s encyclopaedic thought, his creative energy and physical presence. He is vivid and unexpected.


Holmes draws the reader into the labyrinthine complications of his subject’s personality and literary power, and faces us with profound questions about the nature of creativity, the relations between sexuality and friendship, the shifting grounds of political and religious belief.

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 ten New York Times’ Best Books of the Year in 2009. His balloon book, Falling Upwards, was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by seven newspapers in 2013. 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 (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Duff Cooper Prize), 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, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, in 2010. He is the 2018 winner of the BIO Award presented by the Biographers International Organization for sustained achievement in biography. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.10.1998
Zusatzinfo 16 b/w plates
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 240 mm
Gewicht 810 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-00-255576-X / 000255576X
ISBN-13 978-0-00-255576-0 / 9780002555760
Zustand Neuware
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