| Record Number |
773027 |
| ISBN |
9780008168728 (paperback) |
| Author |
Holmes, Richard, 1945- author. |
| Title |
This long pursuit : reflections of a romantic biographer / Richard Holmes. |
| Edition |
William Collins paperback edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : William Collins, 2017. |
| ©2017 |
| Pagination etc. |
360 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustration, portaits (colour) ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary Note |
'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In 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 Stael, Mary Wollstonecraft and Zelide. 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. |
| Subject |
Biography as a literary form |
| Biography as a literary form -- History |
| Shelf Location |
809.93592 HOLM |
