Buy this book on-line HOLMES, RICHARD: : COLERIDGE: DARKER REFLECTIONSLONDON.HarperCollins,1998. ISBN 0002555778.
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Richard Holmes's 'Coleridge: Early Visions' won the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize.'Coleridge: Darker Reflections' is the long awaited second volume.
Dismissed by many as an opium addict, plagiarist,political apostate and a mystic charlatan,the older Coleridge comes storming back to claim our hearts in this volume which covers the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834),during which time 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 foundered,his opium addiction increased,he quarrelled bitterly 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,a great and daring poet and lecturer of genius.
Holmes traces the development of Coleridge into a legend amongst the younger generation of Romantic writers - the 'hooded eagle amongst blinking owls' - and the influence he had on Hazlitt,de Quincey,Byron,Shelley,Keats,Walter Scott,Carlyle,Sterling,J. S. Mill,F. D. Maurice and others.We re-discover Coleridge's power as a conversationalist and a ceaseless generator of ideas.As Charles Lamb noted,'his face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.'
Coleridge's later life was not happy,but it is continually fascinating and its darker tone is also a measure of its challenge and the spiritual impact which Holmes recreates so intensely.Coleridge lives again in these pages so that we can feel his hopeless heartache,his disappointments,his addictions to both Asra and opium,his elated highs and catastrophic lows,his electrifying creativity and boundless energy,and his never-failing ability to rescue himself from the darkest abyss.'Forth steps Mr Coleridge,' in Holmes's hands,'like a giant refreshed from sleep. . . .as if to redeem his character after so long a silence.'
Holmes's 'Coleridge: Early Visions' and his anthology 'Coleridge: Selected Poems' are also available in hardback from HarperCollins.
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