This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Holmes, Richard

This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307742346)

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This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Holmes, Richard

This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

$18.00
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Holmes, Richard

This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Richard Holmes's luminous meditation on the art of biography explores the fascinating relationship between fact and fiction through his own personal experience as a biographer. Ranging widely over art, science, and poetry, Holmes describes a pilgrimage of the heart that has taken him across three centuries. He powerfully evokes the lives of women both scientific and literary: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Sta l, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Dutch intellectual Z lide. Holmes investigates the reductive myths that have overshadowed some favorite Romantic figures: the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the opium-soaked Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the mad visionary William Blake. This great chronicler of the Romantics has produced a chronicle of himself and his intellectual passions; it contains his most personal and most seductive writing.



Author: Richard Holmes
ISBN-10: 0307742342
ISBN-13: 9780307742346
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2018
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
By Richard Holmes
By Richard Holmes
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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 New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year. His balloon book, Falling Upwards, was a New Republic Best Book of the Yearand one of Time Magazine's Top 10 Non-fiction Books of the Year. 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 (an NBCC finalist), 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. He is the 2018 winner of the BIO Award presented by the Biographers International Organization.

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