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Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA (born 5 November 1945) is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism .
Born in London in 1945, Richard Holmes has written ten biographies and books of biographical essays. Even in his early works Shelley (1974) and Coleridge: Early Visions (1989), Holmes demonstrates a keen eye for place and a striking empathy for his subjects.
Biography. Biographer Richard Holmes was born in London, England on 5 November 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge. His first book, Shelley: The Pursuit, was published in 1974 and won a Somerset Maugham Award.
- London, England
- Harpercollins Publishers, Vintage
Mar 24, 2017 · When Richard Holmes set out years ago for south-central France, at 18, with a backpack and a preposterous-looking hat, he believed himself to be on the trail of Robert Louis Stevenson. He did...
Sep 26, 2008 · A few years ago the biographer Richard Holmes was flying in a hot air balloon over Norfolk and found himself "benighted, in so much as we were still up after twilight and couldn't find a...
Oct 8, 2014 · Holmes now views traveling to places where the subject lived and worked as the “physical and metaphysical pursuit” of a life, and an indispensable tool for a biographer, especially a literary biographer.
Dec 3, 2017 · Richard Holmes is one of Britain's most celebrated literary biographers. Focusing on the Romantic era, his deeply researched, passionately articulated work has won virtually every...
