Coleridge: Darker Reflections

Coleridge: Darker Reflections - Paperback

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Coleridge: Darker Reflections - Paperback

Coleridge: Darker Reflections - Paperback

by Richard Holmes
$25.33
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780007204564
Author Richard Holmes
PublisherHarper Perennial
GenreBiography, History, and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2005
LanguageENG- English
Pages656
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Biography & Autobiography History Literary Criticism Nonfiction Poetry Wars & Conflicts

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About Richard Holmes

RICHARD HOLMES is the author of The Age of Wonder, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of the New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes' other books include This Long Pursuit, Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the James Tait Black Prize). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in England.

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