Richard Holmes (biographer)
Richard Holmes | |
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| Born | 5 November 1945 London, England |
| Occupation | Author, academic |
| Alma mater | Churchill College, Cambridge |
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.
Biography
Richard Gordon Heath Holmes was born on 5 November 1945 in London.
Literary biography
Holmes's major works of Romantic biography include: Shelley: The Pursuit which won him the
Holmes is also the author of two studies of European biography.
He is editor of the Harper Perennial series Classic Biographies, launched in 2004.
His 2005 monograph on biography and portraiture for the
October 2008 saw his first major work of biography in over a decade,
In Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air (2013), Holmes approaches the
Bibliography
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- One for Sorrow (Poems – published by Cafe Books in 1970)
- Shelley: The Pursuit (Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1974, current edition published by HarperPerennial ISBN 978-0-00-720458-8)
- My Fantoms by ISBN 978-1-59-017271-1)
- Shelley on Love: Selected Writings (Published by Anvil Books in 1980, current edition published by HarperPress ISBN 978-0-00-655012-9)
- Coleridge (Past Masters) (Published by Oxford University Press in 1982)
- Nerval: The Chimeras (translated by Peter Jay with an introduction by Holmes, Published by Anvil Press in 1985)
- ISBN 978-0-00-720453-3)
- Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin: A Short Residence in Sweden and Memoirs (Published by Penguin Classics in 1987)
- Kipling: Something of Myself (Co-author with Robert Hampson – (Published in Penguin Classics in 1987)
- De Feministe en De Filosoof' (Published in Amsterdam in 1988)
- Coleridge: Early Visions (Published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1989, current edition published by HarperPerennial ISBN 978-0-00-720457-1)
- Dr Johnson and Mr. Savage (Published Hodder and Stoughton in 1993,ISBN 978-0-00-720455-7)
- Coleridge: Selected Poems (Editor – Published by HarperPress in 1996 ISBN 978-0-00-255579-1)
- Coleridge: Darker Reflections (Published by HarperPress in 1998, current edition published by HarperPerennial ISBN 978-0-00-720456-4)
- ISBN 978-0-00-714952-0)
- Falling Upwards: How we Took to the Air (Published by William Collins in 2013 ISBN 978-0-00-738692-5)
- ISBN 978-0-307-37968-9)
Classic Biographies Series (HarperPerennial) edited by Richard Holmes
- Defoe on Sheppard and Wild: The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late ISBN 978-0-00-711168-8)
- Southey on Nelson: The Life of Nelson by ISBN 978-0-00-711170-1)
- Scott on ISBN 978-0-00-711173-2)
- Johnson on ISBN 978-0-00-711169-5)
- Godwin on ISBN 978-0-00-711176-3)
- Gilchrist on Blake: ISBN 978-0-00-711171-8)
References
- ^ "Holmes, Richard Gordon Heath", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ^ Richard Holmes, contemporarywriters.com. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
- ^ "No. 52952". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1992. p. 10. (United Kingdom)
- ^ "The Age of Wonder". Book of the week. Episode 5. London. 20 October 2008. BBC Radio. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 7 August 2009.
- ^ a b Elie, Paul (15 November 2013). "Upper Atmospherics 'Falling Upwards,' by Richard Holmes". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
- ISBN 978-0-00-738692-5.
- ^ Above bibliographic detail taken from a copy of Dr Johnson and Mr Savage first published in 1993
- EBSCOhost.
- EBSCOhost.
- ISSN 0362-4331.
- Renders, Hans and de Haan, Binne, ‘Richard Holmes : A biographer-historian par excellence. Uncovering the roots and methodology of the modern field work of a romantic and humanistic Biographer’, Les Grandes figures historiques dans les lettres et les arts [en ligne], n° 6bis (2017), URL: http://figures-historiques.revue.univ-lille3.fr/6bis-2017-issn-2261-0871/, p. 38-53.
External links
- Portraits of Richard Holmes at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Review of Falling Upwards at the Oxonian Review[usurped]
- Transcript of interview with ABC Radio National.
- Richard Holmes page at HarperCollins
- The British Academy
- Richard Holmes author page and article archive from The New York Review of Books
- Richard Holmes as guest on The Infinitie Monkey Cage, BBC Radio 4 broadcast, "Science Museum," 23 July 2013
The Age of Wonder press coverage
- Richard Holmes interview with the Radiolab
- Review in the Independent, September 26, 2008
- The Times review, September 26, 2008
- "Following his footsteps" Interview in the Guardian, Saturday September 27, 2008
- Review in the Daily Telegraph, September 29, 2008
- Spectator review, October 15, 2008
- New York Times review, July 8, 2009