This Long Pursuit : Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0008168725
ISBN-13
9780008168728
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint
William Collins
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 5th, 2017
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
292 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.90 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: general
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‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie
‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ OldieIn this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers.Central to this pursuit is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, some well-known and others almost lost: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft and Zélide. He investigates the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the chocolate-box painter Thomas Lawrence, the opium-soaked genius Coleridge, and the mad-visionary bard William Blake.The diversity of Holmes’s material is testimony to his empathy, erudition and at times his mischievous streak. This is his most personal and seductive writing yet.
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