Coleridge: Early Visions - Couverture rigide

Holmes, Richard

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 000255576X ISBN 13 : 9780002555760

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Richard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge.

In 1974 his Shelley: The Pursuit won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as `surely the best biography of Shelley ever written’. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014.

He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 000255576X
• ISBN 13: 9780002555760
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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