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Coleridge: v. 1: Early Visions

By (author): Richard Holmes
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 19/Oct/1998
Format: Hardback - 432 pages
Product dimensions (mm): 241 x 163
ISBN-10: 000255576X
ISBN-13: 9780002555760
Categories:
> Biography: Literary

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This biography should transform our view of the writer of "Kubla Khan" and his place in the Romantic Movement. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an opium addict, plagiarist, political apostate and mystic charlatan, Holmes sees Coleridge as a brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking figure who invades the imagination. Holmes draws the reader into the labyrinthine complications of his subject's personality and literary power, and faces us with questions about the nature of creativity, the relations between sexuality and friendship, the shifting grounds of political and religious belief.

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