Coleridge: Darker Reflections
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the second volume of Richard Holmes's monumental biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the story resumes in 1804 as the tormented poet sets sail for Malta, fleeing a broken marriage, an unrequited love, and a crippling addiction to opium that would shadow his genius for the rest of his life. Holmes chronicles the dramatic arc of Coleridge's later years with forensic precision and literary grace, tracing his turbulent friendships with Wordsworth and the Romantics, his brilliant but erratic career as a lecturer and critic, and his ultimately triumphant re-emergence as one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century. Written with the narrative urgency of a novel and the scholarly rigour of a definitive biography, Coleridge: Darker Reflections stands as a landmark achievement in Romantic literary biography. Holmes illuminates the paradox at the heart of Coleridge's existence — that the same mind capable of producing Kubla Khan and Biographia Literaria was also capable of spectacular self-destruction — leaving the reader to wrestle with the enduring question of what further miracles that restless, brilliant consciousness might yet have conjured.
Author: Richard Holmes
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
In the second volume of Richard Holmes's monumental biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the story resumes in 1804 as the tormented poet sets sail for Malta, fleeing a broken marriage, an unrequited love, and a crippling addiction to opium that would shadow his genius for the rest of his life. Holmes chronicles the dramatic arc of Coleridge's later years with forensic precision and literary grace, tracing his turbulent friendships with Wordsworth and the Romantics, his brilliant but erratic career as a lecturer and critic, and his ultimately triumphant re-emergence as one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century. Written with the narrative urgency of a novel and the scholarly rigour of a definitive biography, Coleridge: Darker Reflections stands as a landmark achievement in Romantic literary biography. Holmes illuminates the paradox at the heart of Coleridge's existence — that the same mind capable of producing Kubla Khan and Biographia Literaria was also capable of spectacular self-destruction — leaving the reader to wrestle with the enduring question of what further miracles that restless, brilliant consciousness might yet have conjured.