Richard Holmes

Shelley: The Pursuit

Definitive biography of Romantic poet and writer Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Richard Holmes

British biographer whose Shelley: The Pursuit set a new standard for Romantic biography by arguing that the biographer must pursue their subject on foot. Footsteps is a meditation on the art and ethics of biographical pursuit. His two-volume life of Coleridge won the Whitbread Prize.

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