01926ojm 2200277z- 450 991014905870332120230912161814.00-00-818194-2(CKB)3710000000924164(BIP)055683062(EXLCZ)99371000000092416420231107c2016uuuu -u- -engThis Long Pursuit : Reflections of a Romantic BiographerHarperCollins UKAcross three centuries, and much of Europe - "Holmes writes beautifully... A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' The OldieIn 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.This Long PursuitBiography & autobiographyBiography809.93592Holmes Richard13750Crossley StevenothAUDIO9910149058703321This Long Pursuit2893119UNINA