Coleridge: Darker Reflections
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Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge. In 1974 his Shelley: The Pursuit won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as ‘surely the best biography of Shelley ever written’. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This second volume in Holmes' masterly biography of Coleridge continues to bring to life the poet in all his genius, unstoppable talk and unbearable unreliability. Holmes animates for us the scudding play of light and shade across Coleridge's life, richly filling out his triumphs and sorrows, and opening the door to those of us who may have been less familiar with it, to Coleridge's critical and political writings.Holmes never lets the action stand still. Even Coleridge's most desperate times and laconic lapses form part of the continuous tumult of his life. One is swept along emotionally by Holmes' handling, which is never sentimental, but which always turns a solicitous critical eye upon his subject. At the end, surrounded by the shapes of what he might have achieved, Coleridge can turn and look down on the vista of what he actually did: more than enough. That Holmes can take us on the rollercoaster journey of Coleridge's dreams and schemes and failures, and bring us to the end with a sense of Coleridge's legacy despite all this, marks another triumph for Holmes as one of our foremost biographers.A fantastic book, filled with insight and asides, and generative of thought and reflection in the reader on many levels. More than the story of Coleridge's life, it captures our interest in Coleridge's thought, feeling and philosophy with a vivid dance of detail that recalls Coleridge's own captivating speech.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Second volume of Holmes' two volume biography of Coleridge. This is a meticulous and scholarly work (this volume alone has sixty pages of references and indexes as well as numerous footnotes). Despite this it is an interesting and readable book. Holmes draws on Coleridge's unpublished works and notebooks, as well as unpublished correspondence between his friends and contemporaries. Most people think of Coleridge as a poet and opium addict, to his contemporaries he was an opium addict and genius - a brilliant speaker, an original philosopher, a campaigning journalist, a linguist and translator - in all, a remarkable man. Recommended to any one interested in the early 19th century or the lakes poets.