Footsteps
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007388543
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 288
View: 4591
Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.Download Book Footsteps Adventures Of A Romantic Biographer in PDF format. You can Read Online Footsteps Adventures Of A Romantic Biographer here in PDF, EPUB, Mobi or Docx formats
Sidetracks
Explorations of a Romantic Biographer
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307427749
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 432
View: 5999
With this collection of short and fascinating biographical pieces, the award-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley offers a fascinating glimpse into the mysterious art of biography. When researching, Richard Holmes has often become captivated by figures peripheral to his main subject, literary forays that he couldn’t resist. These tales–the forbidden love of John Stuart Mill, the bizarre novel of Oscar Wilde’ s tragic grand-uncle, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s nightmarish yet cathartic final trip to Paris–are part of what comprises Sidetracks, a marvelously original that includes letters and travelogues, radio plays, essays, and minature biographies. This book is a rare literary feast and an exploration of the creative processes of one of our most preeminent biographers. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Richard Holmes's Falling Upwards.The Age of Wonder
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780307378323
Category: Science
Page: 576
View: 9503
The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery—astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical—swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution. Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who forever changed the public conception of the solar system; of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments revolutionized chemistry; and of the great Romantic writers, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who were inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era in which we first realized both the awe-inspiring and the frightening possibilities of science—an era whose consequences are with us still. BONUS MATERIAL: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Richard Holmes's Falling Upwards.Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narrative
A Reader's Guide to Travel Narrative
Author: Robert Burgin
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 161069385X
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 572
View: 5715
Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide.Shelley
The Pursuit
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: HarperPerennial
ISBN: N.A
Category: Atheists
Page: 830
View: 8078
A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great Romantic poets, was born in Sussex in 1792 and died in Tuscany in 1822, a brief life packed with love affairs, alarums and excursions. Holmes's book offers a serious and critical reappraisal of Shelley as a man and a writer; all his prose and poetry is carefully re-examined, his sense of spiritual and geographical isolation brilliantly described and a detailed portrait of his macabre imaginative life slowly assembled. Shelley's intense friendships with some of the most remarkable figures of his age fill Holmes's pages with a vivid parorama of revolutionary idealism and recklessness. To this is added the private story of Shelley's tortuous romantic liaisons, complications which affected both the peculiar tenor of his daily life and the remotest conceptions of his poetry. This is a stunning, entrancing biography of a fascinating subject, and a timely reissue of an absolutely seminal work.Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Godwin
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 000736248X
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 120
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LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD This unique series – edited by Richard Holmes – recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece – still thrilling to read and vividly alive.Coleridge: Early Visions
Author: Richard Holmes
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007378831
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 432
View: 7420
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.Creative Writing
A Workbook with Readings
Author: Linda Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317797027
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 664
View: 9141
Creative Writing is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing and guide you through your first steps towards publication. Suitable for use by students, tutors, writers’ groups or writers working alone, this book offers: a practical and inspiring section on the creative process, showing you how to stimulate your creativity and use your memory and experience in inventive ways in-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing, in extended sections on fiction, poetry and life writing, including biography and autobiography, giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover and develop your particular strengths a sensible, up-to-date guide to going public, to help you to edit your work to a professional standard and to identify and approach suitable publishers a distinctive collection of exciting exercises, spread throughout the workbook to spark your imagination and increase your technical flexibility and control a substantial array of illuminating readings, bringing together extracts from contemporary and classic writings in order to demonstrate a range of techniques that you can use or adapt in your own work. Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice and experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions, helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate and polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University and the University of East Anglia, renowned as consistent producers of published writers.The Challenge of American History
Author: Louis P. Masur
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862229
Category: History
Page: 331
View: 2654
In The Challenge of American History, Louis Masur brings together a sampling of recent scholarship to determine the key issues preoccupying historians of American history and to contemplate the discipline's direction for the future. The fifteen summary essays included in this volume allow professional historians, history teachers, and students to grasp in a convenient and accessible form what historians have been writing about.Godwin on Wollstonecraft
Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman'
Author: William Godwin
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007111762
Category: Authors, English
Page: 106
View: 3617
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDA radical new series _ edited by Richard Holmes _ that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.The philosopher William Godwin fell in love with and married the radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, only to attend her deathbed (giving birth to their child, the later Mary Shelley). Heartbroken, Godwin immediately shut himself up in his study and wrote this intensely moving biography.True to his philosophical belief in absolute sincerity, Godwin coolly describes Wollstonecraft_s previous love affairs, her time in revolutionary Paris, her illegitimate child, and her two suicide attempts. The book almost wrecked both their reputations, but can now be seen as a masterpiece of indiscretion and human honesty.