Beautiful Romantic Images Biography
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Jun 29, 2008Tim rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who likes either travel or literature
Subtitled "Adventures of a Romantic Biographer," this book gives the backstory of Holmes' youthful pursuit of the places inhabited by his literary heroes, a practice that led him to become a masterful biographer (primarily of the Romantic poets.) He traces the path of Stevenson's Travels with a Donkey, Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft's experiences in Paris during the French Revolution, Shelley's wanderings around Italy, and Nerval in Paris.
This is an exciting edge of biography, not the facts...more
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Tuck
Feb 01, 2013Tuck rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: europa
“il buon tempo arriva”
This informative, but rather dull, biography, how-to-write a biography, autobiography of Richard holmes, who wrote about Shelley, Coleridge, and “dr Johnson and mr savage” (winner of the james tait black award) does have some interesting bits, about how holmes went about researching his topics and what angle he was coming from to write a good biography.
So, from above you see shelley’s Italian motto (he inscribed it on a ring, kind of maybe our first hipster? Shelley?) , whi...more
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Crystal
Jul 03, 2009Crystal rated it 5 of 5 stars
This is one of the best books I've ever read. It was assigned for a Stanford class in Biography. Following the footsteps of biographical subjects of the past, he relates their lives to contemporary
France (contemporary to the time of his writing, which spanned his ages 18 - 30).
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Follow the footsteps of this absorbing and delightful author as he attempts to trace the paths of four sometimes intractable, but always fascinating, Romantic writers. Robert Louis Stevenson's travels...more
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Diane Challenor
Feb 04, 2014Diane Challenor rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition
Shelves: our-kindle-library, non-fiction
I really enjoyed this book. It was made up of four biographical feature stories related to the authors research. One about Robert Louis Stevenson, one about Mary Wollstonecraft and one about Percy Shelly. I enjoyed the first three stories very much. The fourth story was about Gerard de Nerval, a person I'm not familiar with, nor with the literary life of France in the 1800s, so I skimmed through the fourth story because I couldn't connect with it. that said, I love the way Richard Holmes writes...more
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