I enjoyed this biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but not as much as the literary establishment, which gave it a Whitbread Book of the Year award, apparently did. But I never lost sight of the man! --John Mortimer, Sunday Times (London). We’d love your help. Fascinating footnotes. While I may have been reading, watching, and writing about Shakespeare, I could easily have been doing the same for the English Romantics. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ and his place in the Romantic Movement. Coleridge: Early Visions v. 1 by Holmes, Richard and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an Holmes draws the reader into the labyrinthine complications of his subject’s personality and literary power, and faces us with profound questions about the nature of creativity, the relations between sexuality and friendship, and the shifting grounds of political and religious belief. 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.‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ and his place in the Romantic Movement. by Richard Holmes. Even more important for his subject, the precision and poetry of Holmes's own language allows him to capture the many emotional nuances of Coleridge's character, which very literally embodied the great themes of Romanticism: limitless aspiration, inevitable failure, and the struggle to establish an individual self (a struggle which in Coleridge's case was frequently desperate). I found this book and immediately clutched it. In fact, even his title implies his purpose of showing Coleridge as a visionary hero. Coleridge: Early Visions Richard Holmes' intent in his biography on Coleridge is apparent from the opening pages. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2020. Cart I shall certainly find time for volume two. I hadn't really re-engaged with them for a few years, but I knew that I could easily plunge into a biography of Coleridge. Welcome back. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. Start by marking “Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. While I may have been reading, watching, and writing about Shakespeare, I could easily have been doing the same for the English Romantics. A student at Cambridge in 1792, Coleridge entered the competition for the university's Brown Medal ‘for a poem written in imitation of Sappho’. 4771. Add to Cart. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014. Coleridge: Early Visions 1574 Words | 7 Pages. Outstanding account of Coleridge and his times. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. Unable to add item to List. The first volume, Coleridge: Early Visions, published in 1989, ended with Coleridge's departure for Malta in 1804, at the age of 31. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2020. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. The first volume in a mesmerising two-part biography, Richard Holmes provides a fascinating psychological portrait of Coleridge (STC) and an exploration of the Romantic movement which enabled me to see beyond its often cloying sentimentality, all set in the context of the looming threat of the French Revolution, and the growing divisions in Britain over the need for political and social reform. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772-July 25, 1834) was a poet, philosopher, and romantic visionary, an inescapable presence in early 19th-century England. --James Wood, The Guardian (London) In fact, even his title implies his purpose of showing Coleridge as a visionary hero. I'm dazzled by the clarity of the design of his books, his selection of just the right biographical detail, the presentation of context at just the right level of detail, the clarity, even beauty of his prose. In this regard he reads Coleridge's letters to friends and family extremely well, illuminating the poet's tumultuous relationships with Southey, his wife Sara, and Wordsworth among others. A glance at Richard Holmes's biog reveals some pretty weighty credentials but one that caused me to raise a bit of an eye-brow: Professor of Biographical Studies at the University of East Anglia? Coleridge: Early Visions (English Edition), HarperPress; UK ed. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ and his place in the Romantic Movement. Something went wrong. 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. Dis. . 'Coleridge: Early Visions' is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. Holmes has a remarkable gift for conveying another's, particularly a writer's, experience of himself in the world he inhabited, his effort to know and fashion himself and the world, to become the writer he felt destined to become. This is the first volume of a 2-volume work. In fact, even his title implies his purpose of showing Coleridge as a visionary hero. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Hardcover. Be aware, though, that the font size in the paperbacks is very small. In 1974 his Shelley: The Pursuit won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as `surely the best biography of Shelley ever written’. Add to Wish List. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year, and Dr Johnson & Mr Savage won the James Tait Black Prize. About Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804. About Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804. 出版情報: London : Hodder & Stoughton 形態: xvi, 409 p. {16} p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. yammering poetry, pounding the turnpikes, dominating drawing-rooms; the foaming genius, messy with metaphysical secretions and uncontrollable speculations. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. Coleridge can speak for himself. Good coverage of his relationships with other writers and philosophical underpinnings of his work. From: WeBuyBooks (Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom) Seller Rating: Add to Basket. This is an act of biographical recreation which brings back to life Coleridge’s poetry and encyclopaedic thought, his creative energy and physical presence. Early. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions' is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. A succinct, well-paced biography with a nice mix of excerpts from Coleridge's prose and poetry. Holmes has a remarkable gift for conveying another's, particularly a writer's, experience of himself in the world he inhabited, his effort to know and fashion himself and the world, to become the writer he felt destined to become. ... Coleridge: Early Visions was reviewed by John Bayley in the LRB (7 December 1989). ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ and his place in the Romantic Movement. (Shallower than one can imagine as I have neither!). There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. I wish that I had gone for the Kindle version. 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. Letters. Holmes has a remarkable gift for conveying another's, particularly a writer's, experience of himself in the world he inhabited, his effort to know and fashion himself and the world, to become the writer he felt destined to become. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed ou 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. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. An exemplary, thought-provoking biography of Coleridge, this first volume takes him up to age 31 and leaves him on board a ship to Malta. This stimulating book is one of the most enjoyable biographies I have read.’Michael Shelden, Daily Telegraph, `Coleridge lives, and talks and loves… in these pages as never before.’Michael Foot, Independent, "The best literary biography since Ellmann's Oscar Wilde." ", Richard Holmes has written several of my favorite biographies - and I've read hundreds. Be the first to ask a question about Coleridge. See All Buying Options. From a great mountain of research, Holmes has fashioned a compelling narrative which inspires considerable affection and respect for Coleridge. Text, image, video. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Write a review. "Dazzling. His friends and acquaintances are a veritable Who's Who of thought leaders in Britain. Coleridge had so much influence beyond his writings, which is why I wanted to read more about him, and this biography does not disappoint. I wish more biographies included such lists. Holmes' scholarly and sensitive account of Coleridge's life up to its halfway point --32--covers his stormy early life, his erratic youth and his important friendships with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, William and Dorothy Wordsworth and many others. Holmes is a wonderful biographer. As Virginia Woolf wrote :"he seems not a man, but a swarm, a cloud, a buzz of words, darting this way and that, clustering, quivering and hanging suspended. . Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 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. As a writer, I was particularly interested in how he tried (failed) to organize his family and work life in such a way as to allow him to write. To see what your friends thought of this book. He is vivid and unexpected. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as But since I have no interest in Coleridge as philosopher, I do not intend to read volume 2 which covers his life from 1804 to his death on 25 Jul 1834. His friends and acquaintances are a veritable Who's Who of thought leaders in Britain. Does this book contain inappropriate content? This book is so well-written that even though I am not a particular fan of Coleridge, I coudn't stop reading it. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an In two parts. Quantity available: 1. Hello Select your address Best Sellers Today's Deals New Releases Books Electronics Customer Service Gift Ideas Home Computers Gift Cards Sell Holmes brought Coleridge to life for me. Coleridge and Wordsworth in the West Country Tom Mayberry, Alan Sutton 1992. Coleridge: Early Visions. Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 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. Holmes carries the book off with a stunning, perfectly judicious blend of primary source material, critical appraisal, and biographical judgment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with Illustrations by Gustave Doré (Dover, 1970) Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Early Visions (first published 1989; Harper Perennial, 2005) Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Coleridge: Early Visions eBook: Holmes, Richard: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store Skip to main content.com.au Hello, Sign in Account & Lists Account … Holmes has a remarkable gift for conveying another's, particularly a writer's, experience of himself in the world he inhabited, his effort to know and fashion himself and the world, to become the writer he felt destined to become. Holmes has not merely reinterpreted Coleridge, he has re-created him, and his biography has the aura of fiction, the shimmer of an authentic portrait. Please try your request again later. Thoughoughly researched, engagingly written biography. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, -- 1772-1834 -- Biography., Poets, English -- 19th century -- Biography. edition (April 28, 2011), Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2018. Coleridge: Early Visions v. 1 by Richard Holmes and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk. I'm doing a deep dive into Coleridge right now, and have come to the two volumes of the Holmes biography. Illustrated. This book is so well-written that even though I didn't have a strong interest in Coleridge, I couldn't put it down, and read volume two as well. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. OTHER BOOKS. Exhaustive and beautifully written. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The West Country Years Reggie Watters, Friends of Coleridge 2011. Viking. More By and About This Author. It is thoroughly researched and Holmes uses Coleridge's writings so well. The kindle edition has some peculiarities in the arrangement of the notes and appendices that are probably unique to the e book... A wonderful overview of his early years and the thoughts and feelings behind his poetry and essays. . Coleridge Early Visions 1772-1804, by Richard Holmes (read 5 Nov 2010) (Whitbread Book of the Year for 1989) I have never before read a biography of Coleridge, so I thought I should. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. So did the early Coleridge. Hello, Sign in. I'm dazzled by the clarity of the design of his books, his selection of just the right biographical detail, the presentation of context at just the right level of detail, the clarit. Coleridge : Early Visions by Holmes, Richard at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 000255576X - ISBN 13: 9780002555760 - HarperCollins - 1998 - Hardcover in-8, cartonnage sous jaquette de l'éditeur, XVI-409 pp., planches en noir, index. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as A great biography of a complex and endlessly fascinating man. Psychological thrillers that will leave your head spinning. Nicholas Coleridge, who was re-appointed Chair of London's Victoria & Albert Museum in 2019, has revealed that he was infiltrated by visions of snakes as he battled coronavirus. It doesn't hurt that his subject is a person as perplexingly fascinating as Coleridge, but dull or delightful is very much in the hands of the writer when it comes to documenting a life-story, and Holmes provides an engaging mixture of detail, narrative, speculation, and literary analysis grounded in illuminating historical context. Holmes is very good on the development of Coleridge as a poet,but his insights on Coleridge as journalist, radical and political commentator were a revelation. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ and his place in the Romantic Movement. Holmes, Richard. 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. Now for part two! ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ and his place in the Romantic Movement. Published by HarperCollins (1998) ISBN 10: 000255576X ISBN 13: 9780002555760. 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. An intricate and sympathetic account of Coleridge's life and the prevailing social conditions, Holmes in both his Coleridge biographies paints a captivating portrait of the Sage of Highgate through everything from earlier biographies, primary documentation, to even anecdotes recorded in the notebooks of Coleridge and his friends. $22.95. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The author includes an extraordinarily useful list of "Coleridge's Circle" in the back of the volume, with mini biographies of peop. 2. [This is] a biography like few I have ever read." Holmes is very good on the development of Coleridge as a poet,but his insights on Coleridge as journalist, radical and political commentator were a revelation. Illustrated. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ and his place in the Romantic Movement. by Pantheon. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ and his place in the Romantic Movement. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an opium addict, plagiarist, political apostate and mystic charlatan, Richard Holmes’s Coleridge leaps out of the page as a brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking figure who invades the imagination. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. In his preface Holmes … He is a sympathetic biographer with a s. A wonderful biography of a poet I thought I knew. 「Coleridge early visions」を図書館から検索。カーリルは複数の図書館からまとめて蔵書検索ができるサービスです。 近くの図書館から探してみよう カーリルは全国の図書館から本を検索できるサービスで … Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Richard Holmes starting at $0.99. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as His love of his subject shines through, yet he isn't blind to Coleridge's many personal failings, notably his failure as a husband and his weakness for drugs. Will take a break before tackling Vol. This 1989 winner of England's Whitbread Prize, the first of two volumes, discusses with admiration the Romantic man of letters's impulsive personality, his exotic poetry and critical essays,pk and his relationships with and influences on prominent writers of the period. Top reviews. He is a sympathetic biographer with a sense of humor. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Coleridge: Early Visions is a 1989 biography of the Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Richard Holmes, an award-winning British biographer who specializes in the major figures of British and French Romanticism. This may be the best biography I have yet laid eyes on. Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 Richard Holmes, Author Pantheon Books $18 (432p) ISBN 978-0-375-70540-3. 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. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an So yeah, it goes pretty deep and detailed. Please try again. Account & Lists Account Returns & Orders. In his preface Holmes clearly spells out his plan for achieving this purpose. This is the first volume of a 2-volume work. I hadn't really re-engaged with them for a few years, but I knew that I could easily plunge into a biography of Coleridge. According to the orthodox version of the composition of the Biographia, now enshrined in the Princeton edition of the text, this philosophical section was the last to be written. Shallow as I am I am always more impressed by degrees from Oxbridge and Ivy League than anything Red Brick. In his magnificent two volume biography of Coleridge, "Early Visions" (1989) and "Darker Reflections"(1998), Richard Holmes makes just one reference to Swedenborg, although in the second volume he does deal extensively with Coleridge's friendship with the Swedenborgian Charles Augustus Tulk, a founder member of this Society and a long-serving Chairman in its early years. Holmes is a first-rate writer, as well as a first-rate biographer, and is able to sustain a dramatic narrative through a densely detailed account of a very manic and brilliant life. Richard Holmes's Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize.Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the long-awaited second volume, chronicles the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834), a period of domestic and professional turmoil.His marriage foundered, his opium addiction increased, he quarreled bitterly with Wordsworth, and his son, Hartley Well-written interesting exploration of the man and his work. Holmes acheived his stated intention - he convinced me, a sceptic, that Coleridge was a fine, fascinating if deeply flawed man. . Coleridge : early visions フォーマット: 図書 責任表示: Richard Holmes 言語: 英語 出版情報: New York : Viking, 1990 形態: xviii, 409 p. ; 24 cm 著者名: Holmes, Richard, 1945- 書誌ID: BA12895343 ISBN: How are ratings calculated? Coleridge: Early Visions was the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year. Richard Holmes has a way with telling the story of a person's life. He has His masterly book leaves one feeling that, if there were a single literary giant of the past, other than Shakespeare, whom one was permitted to meet, then Coleridge would be the choice.". I had read Holmes book on the Romantics' discovery of science when it first came out, and enjoyed it, so bought these two books. Coleridge: Early Visions Richard Holmes, Hodder 1989. Used. A wonderful biography of a poet I thought I knew. 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