RICHARD HOLMES’Sfirst book was Shelley: The Pursuit which won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1974. Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer was first published in 1985 and was described by Michael Holroyd as ‘a modern masterpiece’. Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize; his next book Dr Johnson & Mr Savage won the James Tait Black Prize and in 1996 he published Coleridge: Selected Poems, an anthology of 101 poems which gives a fresh and enlarged sense of Coleridge’s creative powers. In 1998, he published Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the Duff Cooper Prize. Richard Holmes is also the author of Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer (2000). He is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 1992 was awarded an OBE. He lives in Norwich and London with the novelist Rose Tremain.
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