<p>Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.</p>

Coleridge

Biographies & Memoirs

Holmes, Sir Richard

Arts & Literature

Harper-perennial

<p>Documents the experiences of the pioneers of human flight to offer insight into the character qualities that inspired their ambitions and the ways in which their achievements have shaped culture, technology, and meteorology.</p>

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Blackstone Audiobooks

Noah

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Xulon Press

In this chronicle of his lifelong obsession with re-creating the lives of writers and scientists, Richard Holmes here casts a new eye not only on the Romantic poets and lost women of Romantic science he has long studied, but on their biographers, as well. He examines the evolution of the myths that have overshadowed certain lives (Percy Shelley's death at sea, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-fueled lectures), and reveals how the manner in which each generation tells the stories of the lives that came before it shapes and is shaped by a contemporary understanding of human nature. These portraits are deftly woven with Holmes' own experience as a biographer. A spellbinding examination of the nature of biographical knowledge, brimming with the infectious curiosity of Holmes' catalog.

This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

Dreamscape Media

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