Coleridge: Early Visions: v. 1

Richard Holmes' magnificent biography captures Coleridge in all his electrifying, maddening glory—from his radical Cambridge days through his creative explosion with Wordsworth. Holmes writes with novelistic flair, bringing the opium dreams, philosophical wanderings, and poetic genius of the Romantic era vividly to life. This is the first volume of what's rightly considered one of the finest literary biographies ever written. Perfect for poetry lovers, Romantics obsessives, and anyone who knows that brilliant minds are rarely tidy ones.