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Richard Holmes

Books by this author: Shelley on Love
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  • Richard Holmes, born in 1945, is an award-winning biographer, author of Shelley: the Pursuit, Coleridge: Early Visions, Dr Johnson & Mr Savage and Coleridge: Darker Reflections, which won the Duff Cooper Prize and the Heinemann Award in 1999. Footsteps, his ‘adventures of a romantic biographer’, was published in 1985.

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