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Coleridge: Darker Reflections

by Richard Holmes

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Coleridge’s later life in motion and crisis

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Coleridge’s later life in motion and crisis

Covering 1804–1834, this second volume of Richard Holmes’s biography follows Samuel Taylor Coleridge through three turbulent decades of travel, fractured domestic life, addiction, and changing literary relationships. The account moves from his journeys around the Mediterranean to returns to the Lake District and West Country, before his eventual settlement in Highgate. Alongside the breakdown of his marriage and his conflict with Wordsworth, Holmes traces the difficult transition through which Coleridge returned to public literary life in a more philosophical, meditative role. It places the later career of the poet associated with “Kubla Khan” within the pressures and transformations of his private and professional world.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Romantic-era literary biography
  • Those studying Coleridge’s later career and philosophical writing
  • Readers curious about the relationship between literary life, travel, and personal upheaval

Themes

RomanticismLiterary biographyAddiction and domestic turmoilTravelPhilosophical writing

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Book overview

Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.

Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was.

This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge's career (1804-1834) during which he travelled restlessly through the Mediterranean, returned to his old haunts in the Lake District and the West Country, and finally settled in Highgate. It was a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage broke up, his opium addiction increased, he quarrelled with Wordsworth, his own son Hartley Coleridge (a gifted poet himself) became an alcoholic. And after a desperate time of transition, Coleridge re-emerged on the literary scene as a new kind of philosophical and meditative author.

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