The second volume of his study of Coleridge, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, was published in 1998. Dr Johnson & Mr Savage (1993), an account of Johnson's undocumented friendship with the notorious poet Richard Savage, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for biography) in 1993. The first volume of his biography of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge: Early Visions, was published in 1989 and won the Whitbread Book of the Year award. His first book, Shelley:The Pursuit, was published in 1974 and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.īiographer Richard Holmes was born in London, England on 5 November 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge.
Through the lives of William Herschel and his sister Caroline, who forever changed the public conception of the solar system of Humphry Davy, whose near-suicidal gas experiments revolutionized chemistry and of the great Romantic writers, from Mary Shelley to Coleridge and Keats, who were inspired by the scientific breakthroughs of their day, Holmes brings to life the era in which we first realized both the awe-inspiring and the frightening possibilities of science-an era whose consequences are with us still.īONUS This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Richard Holmes's Falling Upwards. Other voyages of discovery-astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical-swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution.
Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
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