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This Long Pursuit : Reflections of a Romantic Biographer - Richard Holmes

This Long Pursuit

Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

Author: Richard Holmes

Read by: Steven Crossley

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Published: 22nd August 2017

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'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie

In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers.

Central to this pursuit 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 Zelide. He investigates 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 at times his mischievous streak. This is his most personal and seductive writing yet.

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Published: 5th October 2017

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