Richard Holmes

Coleridge (eBook, ePUB)

Early Visions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007378838
• Artikelnr.: 39940166

Autorenporträt

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 Prize in 1974. 'Coleridge: Early Visions' won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, and 'Dr Johnson & Mr Savage' won the James Tait Black Prize. 'Coleridge: Darker Reflections', won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award. He has published two studies of European biography, 'Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer' in 1985, and 'Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer' in 2000. His most recent book 'The Romantic Poets and their Circle' was published by the National Portrait Gallery in 2005. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Maps xi
Preface xiii
 
1 Child of Nature 1
2 Orphan of the Storm 21
3 Prodigal Son 39
4 Pantisocrat 59
5 Watchman 89
6 Prodigal Father 117
7 Kubla Coleridge 135
8 Mariner 169
9 Der Wanderer 205
10 Journeyman 238
11 Laker 273
12 Lover 297
13 Metaphysical Mountaineer 321
14 Exile 342
 
Postscript 362
Coleridge Circle 365
Bibliography and References 372
Acknowledgements 389
Index 391