Holmes expresses no imaginitive sympathy for his subject. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. But I never lost sight of the man! But its strength-- objectivity-- is its weakness. And he is a garrulous, genial, manic, subversive, second and third guessing, delightful genius worth reading about. In his preface Holmes clearly spells out his plan for achieving this purpose. Happy Women's History Month! 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. Take a break from another political biography or war story and read this. Well-written interesting exploration of the man and his work. Coleridge: Early Visions was the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year. There was a problem loading your book clubs. ‘Coleridge: Early Visions’ is the first part of Holmes’s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed ou. I found this book and immediately clutched it. I have an annoying little habit of checking the fly-sheet of books to see by what authority the writer speaks to me. Coleridge had so much influence beyond his writings, which is why I wanted to read more about him, and this biography does not disappoint. Early. The result of this detailed look at Coleridge is most impressive. Download PDF. Removing this book will also remove your associated ratings, reviews, and reading sessions. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Superb, Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2005. I wish more biographies included such lists. . 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. Buy Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804 by Holmes, Richard online on Amazon.ae at best prices. In a sparkling style, he brings the man to life: we see the poet/philosopher/essayist as a fully realized human being ranging from being an extremely prolific writer to also being a very neglectful husband. This is the Coleridge I thought I knew through his poetry. And it covers everything: the personal, the literary, the friendships, and the quarrels. It was one of the many dark nights of the soul that Coleridge--Romantic poet, critic, philosopher and one of the greatest conversationalists in the history of the English language--was to endure during his wayward, opium-enveloped later years, a period that Holmes meticulously traces in this long-anticipated follow-up to Coleridge: Early Visons 1772-1804, which appeared in 1989. The book examines his neuralgia, which turned him into an opium addict, and the influence this had on his writing. Is it the subjects he choses? 34 Full PDFs related to this paper. So yeah, it goes pretty deep and detailed. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. 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. I felt like I was in the presence of the great man himself. With his broken marriage, pluses and minuses as a father, his lectures, opium addiction, poetry, criticism and the first encylopedia in our history, it is never dull, always fascinating. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! ‘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. The romantic writer who emerges from these pages is unforgettably vivid and unexpected. I was interested in all three of these areas, and I found this biography (the first of two on Coleridge) by Mr. Holmes to be fully satisfying. ‘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 sent me back to the poems--and to the autobiographical writings--which I am reading with fresh eyes. In Holmes's majesterial chronicle, that river of words and ideas is virtually audible. . Frete GRÁTIS em milhares de produtos com o Amazon Prime. Some of it I like well enough, but most poetry I don’t care for as a general rule. AbeBooks.com: Coleridge: Early Visions (v. 1) (9780140124408) by Holmes, Richard and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. By Richard Holmes. '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. Download Full PDF Package. 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. Is this even a thing? Illustrated. Shallow as I am I am always more impressed by degrees from Oxbridge and Ivy League than anything Red Brick. ‘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. "Poet, journalist, letter-writer, critic, autobiographer, lecturer, folklorist, philosopher: when a man's genius is so amorphous and protean, how can any one biographer hope to encompass it? I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever read a poem by Coleridge and imagined they understood it. He has a great breadth of knowledge about Coleridge, Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2014. A great biography of a complex and endlessly fascinating man. Encontre diversos … Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2018. Coleridge: Early visions, Volume 1. Visions of Fatherhood in Coleridge's Early and Late Poetry. Fast and free shipping free returns cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. 2 Reviews. Advanced Search Find a … Holmes brought Coleridge to life for me. Or a reader may have an interest in the man behind the literary output, with perhaps a curiosity about Coleridge’s well-known addiction to laudanum. Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2017. Buy Coleridge: Early Visions by online on Amazon.ae at best prices. Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 1999. 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. Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2021, The two volume biography brings the man to life. Please try your request again later. You can't stop reading. ‘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. This treatment of Coleridge's early life is excellent in scope & detail; in fact, it won a prize. 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. Coleridge: Early Visions v. 1 by Richard Holmes and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.co.uk. A biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the 19th century British poet who wrote The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. Coleridge’s prose (from his, One day in 2001, I wandered into the used bookshop in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to search for a book to read to divert me from my MA thesis. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. 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 Wo. ...with Richard Holmes and a bottle of port. 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. Thoughoughly researched, engagingly written biography. What a gift. SUPERB... one star down for Kindle edition only !! As Virginia Woolf wrote :"he seems not a man, but a sw, This book has taken me a time to read but I have enjoyed every minute. Richard Holmes has a way with telling the story of a person's life. Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, Coleridge's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions), The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition (Princeton Classics, 78), Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. A short summary of this paper. "O God save meAfrom myself," wrote Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1813, lying penniless in a sweat-soaked bed in a Bath inn, poisoned by opium, his literary career and personal life in shambles. A wonderful biography of a poet I thought I knew. Be aware, though, that the font size in the paperbacks is very small. ‘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. The romantic writer who emerges from these pages is unforgettably vivid and unexpected. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an opium addict, plagiarist, political... Read More Coleridge : early visions. This was part one, I've ordered part two to find out the exciting conclusion. His life is complex and challenging and so it must have been for Holmes to research and write Coleridge's life. To see what your friends thought of this book, Yet, miraculously, in this first of two volumes, Richard Holmes has succeeded in doing so . Through generous quotations and ingenious analyses of Coleridge's writing, Holmes conveys not just the minutiae of the poet's life and writing but the tone and texture of even his most informal table talk, which de Quincey once likened to "some great river... traversing the most spacious fields of thought, by transitions the most just and logical, that it was possible to conceive." It is thoroughly researched and Holmes uses Coleridge's writings so well. Please try again. 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