Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit (published by NYRB Classics), which won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1974; Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year award; Dr Johnson & Mr Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the 1990 Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award. His other works include Footsteps (1985) and Sidetracks (2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain.
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‘Genius…Infected by Romance’
February 24, 2011
Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance
an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, October 21, 2010–January 23, 2011, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, February 24–June 5, 2011
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The Great de Staël
May 28, 2009
Madame de Staël: The First Modern Woman
by Francine du Plessix Gray
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël
by J. Christopher Herold
Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography
by Renee Winegarten
Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile
by Angelica Goodden
Corinne, or Italy
by Madame de Staël, translated from the French by Sylvia Raphael
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The Fantoms of Théophile Gautier
August 14, 2008
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The Passionate Partnership
April 12, 2007
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman
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The Romantic Pugilist
February 27, 2003
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Triumph of an Artist
September 20, 2001
A Life of James Boswell
by Peter Martin
Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson
by Adam Sisman
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Good News!
June 10, 1999
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Lost Tale of a Lost Child
April 22, 1999
Maurice, or the Fisher’s Cot
by Mary Shelley, edited with an introduction by Claire Tomalin
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Paradise in a Dream
July 17, 1997
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
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The Romantic Circle
April 10, 1997
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Voltaire’s Grin
November 30, 1995
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On the Enchanted Hill
June 8, 1995
The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson 18541890 edited by Bradford A. Booth, edited by Ernest Mehew
Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography
by Frank McLynn
Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny by Alexandra Lapierre, translated by Carol Cosman
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Lord of Unreason
May 12, 1994
Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law by E.P. Thompson
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Not a Drummer
November 19, 1992
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‘He Doth Not Sleep’
September 24, 1992
The New Shelley: Later Twentieth-Century Views edited by G. Kim Blank
Shelley’s Poetry and Prose edited by Donald H. Reiman, edited by Sharon B. Powers
The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts Volume XI: The Geneva Notebook of Percy Bysshe Shelley transcribed and edited by Michael Erkelenz
Shelley’s First Love: The Love Story of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Grove
by Desmond Hawkins
Love’s Children
by Judith Chernaik
Shelley’s Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi
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Closing the Goethe Gap
October 24, 1991
Goethe: The Poet and the Age Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (17491790) by Nicholas Boyle
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The Cabinet of Doctor Keats
June 27, 1991
Romantic Medicine and John Keats by Hermione de Almeida