This Long Pursuit. Reflections Of A Romantic Biographer

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 360 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes confesses to a lifetime's obsession with his Romantic subjects. This pursuit has taken him across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers. Central to this quest 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 myths that have overshadowed the lives of some favourite Romantics: 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 enquiring spirit; and at times his mischievous streak. This Long Pursuit contains Richard Holmes's most personal and seductive writing yet.

ISBN: 9780007386949