This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer. Richard Holmes

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2016

      Copyright © Richard Holmes 2016

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      Source ISBN: 9780008168728

      Ebook Edition © October 2016 ISBN: 9780008168711

      Version: 2017-09-06

       Dedication

      To Arabella Pike

      my wonderful editor for more than twenty years

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       CONFESSIONS

       1 Travelling

       2 Experimenting

       3 Teaching

       4 Forgetting

       5 Ballooning

       RESTORATIONS

       6 Margaret Cavendish

       7 Zélide

       8 Madame de Staël

       9 Mary Wollstonecraft

       10 Mary Somerville

       AFTERLIVES

       11 John Keats the Well-Beloved

       12 Shelley Undrowned

       13 Thomas Lawrence Revarnished

       14 Coleridge Misremembered

       15 William Blake Rediscovered

       Acknowledgements

       List of Illustrations

       Picture Section

       Index

       About the Author

       Also by Richard Holmes

       About the Publisher

CONFESSIONS

      1

       Travelling

      Every so often I close one of my working notebooks (there are nearly two hundred of them now, dating from 1964, the earliest in soft blue crumpled cardboard from СКАЧАТЬ