Richard Holmes (biographer)
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Richard Holmes (1945- ) is a British author best-known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.
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[edit] Biography
He is a fellow of The Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 1992. He lives in London and Norfolk (UK), with his wife, British novelist Rose Tremain.
[edit] Literary Biography
Holmes's major works of Romantic biography include: Shelley: The Pursuit which won him the Somerset Maugham Award; Coleridge: Early Visions, which won him the 1989 Whitbred Book of the Year Prize; Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the second and final volume of his Coleridge biography; and Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, concerning the friendship between eighteenth-century British literary figures Samuel Johnson and Richard Savage.
Holmes is also the author of Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, a highly-acclaimed volume of memoirs and personal reflections on the biographer's art. A similarly self-reflective book, Sidetracks, collects his shorter pieces, including an early, groundbreaking essay on Thomas Chatterton and an introductory account of the lives and works of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin.
[edit] Bibliography
- One for Sorrow (Poems - published by Cafe Books in 1970)
- Shelley: The Pursuit (Published by Weidenfled and Nicolson in 1974)
- Gautier:My Fantoms (Translation - Published by Quartet Books in 1976)
- Shelley on Love (Published by Anvil Books in 1980)
- Coleridge (Published by OUP - Oxford University Press - 1982)
- Nerval: The Chimeras (Co-author with Peter Jay - Published by Anvil Press in 1985)
- Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (Published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1985)
- Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin: A Short Residence in Sweden and Memoirs Published by Penguin Classics in 1987)
- Kipling: Something of Myself (Co-author with Robert Hampson - Published in Penguin Classics in 1987)
- De Feministe en De Filosoof' (Published in Amsterdam in 1988)
- Coleridge: Early Visions (Published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1989)
- Dr Johnson and Mr. Savage (Published Hodder and Stoughton in 1993) [1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Above bibliographic detail taken from a copy of Dr Johnson and Mr Savage first published in 1993
