This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer Audiobook by Richard Holmes

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ID: 309324
Title: This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
Author: Richard Holmes
Narrator: Steven Crossley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:02:00
Language: English
Release date: 10-06-2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Literary

Summary:
A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries, through much of Europe and into the lively company of many earlier biographers. Central to this pursuit is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific and literary, some well-known and others almost lost: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft and Zélide. He investigates the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the chocolate-box painter Thomas Lawrence, the opium-soaked genius Coleridge, and the mad-visionary bard William Blake. The diversity of Holmess material is testimony to his empathy, erudition and at times his mischievous streak. This is his most personal and seductive writing yet.

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