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Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834

Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834

2000 ·
·4.52·125 Ratings ·656 Pages
“ Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. ” ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge's poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry ('Kubla Khan') and his ballads ('The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
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    2003·
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    ·4.18·209 Ratings
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    1999·
    ·4.45·249 Ratings
    Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of Holmes's classic biograph
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    2013·
    ·3.76·385 Ratings
    **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)****Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013****The New Republic Best Books of 2013**In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation o
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    2009·
    ·3.95·6,738 Ratings
    'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the 18th century, and which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Rom
  • My Fantoms

    2008·
    ·4.06·199 Ratings
    Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature. In My Fanto
  • Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage

    1996·
    ·3.93·86 Ratings
    Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage recounts a story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship between Richard Savage - poet, playwright, and convicted murderer - and the young Samuel Johnson, an unknown provincial schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek
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