Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804

Upon its first ten the first volume of publication years ago, Richard Holmes's life of Coleridge was hailed by Michael Holroyd as "a modern masterpiece, a book that marks a climax in the golden age of modern biography." The romantic writer who emerges from these pages is unforgettably vivid and unexpected. Holmes gives us a true portrait of unfolding genius -- a man who learns as much from children's games as from philosophic treatises, as much from bird flight as from theology. Unavailable for the last five years, this award-winning biography is being reissued to coincide with the hardcover publication of the concluding volume. The two books represent the pinnacle of Holmes's literary achievement.

Richard Holmes is the author of <b>Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage</b> (both available from Vintage Books), and <b>Shelley: The Pursuit,</b> for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize. A fellow of the British Academy, he was awarded an OBE in 1992. He lives in England.