This Long Pursuit
Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
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In this chronicle of his lifelong obsession with recreating the lives of writers and scientists, Richard Holmes here casts a new eye not only on the Romantic poets and lost women of Romantic science he has long studied, but on their biographers, as well.
He examines the evolution of the myths that have overshadowed certain lives (Percy Shelley's death at sea, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-fueled lectures), and reveals how the manner in which each generation tells the stories of the lives that came before it shapes and is shaped by a contemporary understanding of human nature.
These portraits are deftly woven with Holmes' own experience as a biographer. A spellbinding examination of the nature of biographical knowledge, brimming with the infectious curiosity of Holmes' catalog.
©2017 Richard Holmes (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally!
- De Douglas en 08-15-14
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I Am Dynamite!
- A Life of Nietzsche
- De: Sue Prideaux
- Narrado por: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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Nietzsche wrote that all philosophy is autobiographical, and in this vividly compelling, myth-shattering biography, Sue Prideaux brings listeners into the world of this brilliant, eccentric, and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand history's most misunderstood philosopher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating; tragic
- De Cineaste21 en 12-30-18
De: Sue Prideaux
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Keats
- A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
- De: Lucasta Miller
- Narrado por: Sally Scott
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Romantic Life
- De David en 05-03-22
De: Lucasta Miller
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At the Existentialist Café
- Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!"
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4 out of 5 stars
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Consistent look at incoherent philosophy
- De Gary en 06-19-16
De: Sarah Bakewell
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Ted Hughes
- The Unauthorized Life
- De: Jonathan Bate
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 25 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Ted Hughes, poet laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter writer since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal thanks to narrator!
- De equinox14 en 06-26-16
De: Jonathan Bate
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William Blake vs the World
- De: John Higgs
- Narrado por: John Higgs
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 97
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A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy, and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever
- De idamae en 11-04-22
De: John Higgs
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C. S. Lewis - A Life
- Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet
- De: Alister E. McGrath
- Narrado por: Robin Sachs
- Duración: 13 h y 57 m
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In honor of the 50th anniversary of C. S. Lewis' death, celebrated Oxford don Dr. Alister McGrath presents us with a compelling and definitive portrait of the life of C. S. Lewis, the author of the well-known Narnia series. For more than half a century, C. S. Lewis’ Narnia series has captured the imaginations of millions. In C. S. Lewis - A Life, Dr. Alister McGrath recounts the unlikely path of this Oxford don, who spent his days teaching English literature to the brightest students in the world and his spare time writing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awakening my curiosity and desire to read more!
- De Pearl Glacier en 03-13-13
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night
- Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
- De: John Tresch
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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John Tresch offers a bold new biography of a writer whose short, tortured life continues to fascinate. Shining a spotlight on an era when the lines separating entertainment, speculation, and scientific inquiry were blurred, Tresch reveals Poe's obsession with science and lifelong ambition to advance and question human knowledge. He remained an avid and often combative commentator on new discoveries, publishing and hustling in literary scenes that also hosted the era's most prominent scientists, semi-scientists, and pseudo-intellectual rogues.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Know the Real Poe
- De Elliott Wolfe, M.D. en 06-28-21
De: John Tresch
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Melville in Love
- The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick
- De: Michael Shelden
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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Herman Melville's epic novel, Moby-Dick, was a spectacular failure when it was published in 1851, effectively ending its author's rise to literary fame. Because he was neglected by academics for so long, and because he made little effort to preserve his legacy, we know very little about Melville, and even less about what he called his "wicked book". Scholars still puzzle over what drove Melville to invent Captain Ahab's mad pursuit of the great white whale.
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4 out of 5 stars
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intriguing
- De Jean en 06-18-16
De: Michael Shelden
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
- De: Colm Toibin
- Narrado por: Colm Toibin
- Duración: 6 h y 7 m
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Elegant, profound, and riveting, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language and their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways these men surface in their work. Through these stories of fathers and sons, Tóibín recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Eminently re-readable
- De Ellen-A en 01-02-19
De: Colm Toibin
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The Book That Changed America
- How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation
- De: Randall Fuller
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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The compelling story of the effect of Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species on a diverse group of American writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, in 1860.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Oversold
- De Roger en 03-03-17
De: Randall Fuller
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Nazi Literature in the Americas
- De: Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews - translator
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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A tour de force of black humor and imaginary erudition, Nazi Literature in the Americas presents itself as a biographical dictionary of writers who espoused extreme right-wing ideologies in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eerie and fascinating
- De Jikai Zenshin en 03-19-21
De: Roberto Bolaño, y otros
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Metaphysical Animals
- How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
- De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachae Wiseman
- Narrado por: Alex Dunmore
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Book about nothing
- De Gerardo Naranjo Gonzalez en 06-14-22
De: Clare Mac Cumhaill, y otros
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The Club
- Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
- De: Leo Damrosch
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually, the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club". In this captivating audiobook, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful survey
- De Tad Davis en 05-10-19
De: Leo Damrosch
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Magnificent Rebels
- The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
- De: Andrea Wulf
- Narrado por: Julie Teal
- Duración: 15 h y 1 m
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When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right to determine our own lives? When did we first ask the question, how can I be free? It all began in the 1790s in a quiet university town in Germany when a group of playwrights, poets, and writers put the self at center stage in their thinking, writing, and their lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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fascinating overall, too much drama
- De soup cook en 11-27-22
De: Andrea Wulf
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Holmes Rediscovered
I didn't realize that this wonderful book was written by the same guy who had written an old favorite of mine until I was well into this newer one. The world of biographies is such a rich wonderland from the pen of such a master- Sir Richard Holmes. He brings 19th century British women and men of science and literature to life as never before; likewise their previous biographers. Years back I read and loved "The Age of Wonder", so when I heard him claim it early in the book, I knew I was in for a first-class audio experience. I'd give it 6 stars if I could.
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