COLERIDGE: DARKER REFLECTIONS
Written by Richard Holmes
Published by Harper Collins
in 1998
ISBN: 0002555778
COLERIDGE: DARKER REFLECTIONS
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831323
1st.
1998.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Biography. The long-awaited sequel to Coleridge: Early Visions, chronicles the last thirty years of his career (1804-1834), a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage foundered, his opium addiction increased, he quarreled bitterly with Wordsworth, and his son, Hartley (a gifted poet himself), became an alcoholic. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 622 pages including index. ISBN: 0002555778. Ribbon page marker is frayed at bottom. Boards and contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faintly sunned/faded to spine and lightly scuffed to rear panel.