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Coleridge: Early Visions

By (author) Richard Holmes

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Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmesâ€™s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britainâ€™s greatest poets. â€˜Coleridge: Early Visionsâ€™ is the first part of Holmesâ€™s classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of â€˜Kubla Khanâ€™ and his place in the Romantic Movement. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an opium addict, plagiarist, political apostate and mystic charlatan, Richard Holmesâ€™s Coleridge leaps out of the page as a brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking figure who invades the imagination. This is an act of biographical recreation which brings back to life Coleridgeâ€™s poetry and encyclopaedic thought, his creative energy and physical presence. He is vivid and unexpected. Holmes draws the reader into the labyrinthine complications of his subjectâ€™s personality and literary power, and faces us with profound questions about the nature of creativity, the relations between sexuality and friendship, and the shifting grounds of political and religious belief.