This Long Pursuit : Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

• Autore: Holmes Richard
• Pubblicazione: HarperCollins UK
• Disciplina: 809.93592
• Soggetto non controllato: Biography & autobiography; Biography
• Persona (resp. second.): CrossleySteven
• Sommario/riassunto: Across 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: This Long Pursuit
• Titolo autorizzato: This Long Pursuit
• ISBN: 0-00-818194-2
• Formato: Musica
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910149058703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II