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Coleridge: v. 2: Darker Reflections

By (author): Richard Holmes
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publication date: 19/Oct/1998
Format: Hardback - 512 pages
Product dimensions (mm): 241 x 160
ISBN-10: 0002555778
ISBN-13: 9780002555777
Categories:
> Biography: Literary

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Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge aims to transform the view of the poet of "Kubla Khan" and his place in the romantic movement. Dismissed by many as an opium addict, plagiarist, political apostate and mystic charlatan, Holmes's Coleridge is shown as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was. This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge's career (1804-1834) during which he travelled restlessly through the Mediterranean, returned to his old haunts in the Lake District and the West Country, and finally settled in Highgate. It was a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage broke up, his opium addiction increased, he quarrelled with Wordsworth, his own son Hartley Coleridge (a gifted poet himself) became an alcoholic. And after a desperate time of transition, Coleridge re-emerged on the literary scene as a new kind of philosophical and meditative author.

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