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This Long Pursuit
Richard Holmes
This Long Pursuit
Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes's luminous meditation on the art of biography explores the fascinating relationship between fact and fiction through his own personal experience as a biographer. Ranging widely over art, science, and poetry, Holmes describes a pilgrimage of the heart that has taken him across three centuries. He powerfully evokes the lives of women both scientific and literary: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Dutch intellectual Zélide. Holmes investigates the reductive myths that have overshadowed some favorite Romantic figures: the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the opium-soaked Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the mad visionary William Blake. This great chronicler of the Romantics has produced a chronicle of himself and his intellectual passions; it contains his most personal and most seductive writing.
Médias | Livres Paperback Book (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé) |
Validé | 20 février 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9780307742346 |
Éditeurs | Random House USA Inc |
Pages | 400 |
Dimensions | 130 × 206 × 20 mm · 408 g |
Langue et grammaire | English |
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