Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes is the author of Shelley: The Pursuit, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974; Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, which won the 1993 James Tait Black Prize; and Coleridge: Early Visions, winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1992. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain. He is also a professor of biographical studies at the University of East Anglia.

My Fantoms
The famed biographer of Shelley and Coleridge, Richard Holmes, compiles fantastical stories of love and death and from France's leading Romantic, friend of Hugo, and dedicatee of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal. "It is in Gautier that we first seem to find and authentic French sense of the the unreal world...[it] is recognizable at once as something alike genuine and profound."—H.P. Lovecraft

Shelley: The Pursuit
Here we have the real Shelley at last—radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant and uncompromising poetic innovator.

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