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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 biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet 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, Richard Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of the page as a brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking figure who invades…
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11 editions- Paperback · English · 1999Flamingo · 432 pages · 9780006548416
- Paperback · English · 1991Penguin (Non-Classics) · 432 pages · 9780140124408
- Hardcover · English · 1990Viking · 409 pages · 9780670804443
- Other · English · 2013Coleridge Early VisionsHarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007450749
- Other · English · 2011HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007378838
- Other · English · 2006HarperCollins Publishers Australia · 432 pages · 9780007204571
CriticsCriticism and interpretationEnglish PoetsPoets, EnglishBiographyNew York Times reviewedColeridge, samuel taylor, 1772-1834Poets, biography