Coleridge: Darker Reflections (about Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
A biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the 19th century British poet who wrote The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. The book examines his neuralgia, which turned him into an opium addict, and the influence this had on his writing. It follows his career in the civil service, his failed marriages and a trip to Germany where he came under the influence of German idealism, becoming its principal conduit in England.
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- 1999
- ISBN-13
- 9780375705403
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeOpium addictionRomantic poetry
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(1999)
Other awarded books from Richard Holmes
- The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
- The Age of Wonder
- The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
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