Richard Holmes (biographe)

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Pour les articles homonymes, voir Richard Holmes.

Richard Holmes, né le 5 novembre 1945 à Londres, est un biographe britannique spécialisé dans la période romantique au Royaume-Uni et en France.

Biographie

Richard Holmes a fait ses études au collège de Downside, dans le Somerset, et à Churchill College, Cambridge^[1]. Il est membre de la Royal Society of Literature et de la British Academy. Il a été professeur d'études biographiques à l'University of East Anglia (2001-2007). Il est docteur honoris causa de cette université, ainsi que de l'University of East London, de l'University of Kingston et du Tavistock Institute. En 1992, il a reçu l'Order of the British Empire. Il vit à Londres et dans le Norfolk avec son épouse, la romancière britannique Rose Tremain.

Parmi ses biographies les plus importantes figurent Shelley: The Pursuit, qui a obtenu le prix Somerset-Maugham ; Coleridge: Early Visions, lauréat en 1989 du Whitbread Book of the Year Prize (prix Costa) ; Coleridge: Darker Reflections, second volume de sa biographie de Coleridge, lui a valu le Duff Cooper Prize et le Heinemann Award. Son Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage, sur l'amitié de Samuel Johnson et de Richard Savage, a reçu le James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Richard Holmes est aussi l'auteur d'un essai sur Thomas Chatterton et d'une introduction aux œuvres de Mary Wollstonecraft et de William Godwin.

Publications

• One for Sorrow (Poems - published by Cafe Books in 1970)
• Shelley: The Pursuit (Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1974, current edition published by HarperPerennial ISBN 978-0-00-720458-8)
• Gautier: My Fantoms (Translation - Published by Quartet Books in 1976)
• Shelley on Love: Selected Writings (Published by Anvil Books in 1980, current edition published by HarperPress ISBN 978-0-00-655012-9)
• Coleridge (Past Masters) (Published by Oxford University Press in 1982)
• Nerval: The Chimeras (Co-author with Peter Jay Published by Anvil Press in 1985)
• Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (Published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1985, current edition published by HarperPerenial ISBN 978-0-00-720453-3)
• Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin: A Short Residence in Sweden and Memoirs (Published by Penguin Classics in 1987)
• Kipling: Something of Myself (Co-author with Robert Hampson - (Published in Penguin Classics in 1987)
• De Feministe en De Filosoof' (Published in Amsterdam in 1988)
• Coleridge: Early Visions (Published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1989, current edition published by HarperPerenial ISBN 978-0-00-720457-1)
• Dr Johnson and Mr. Savage (Published Hodder and Stoughton in 1993^[2], current edition published by HarperPerenial ISBN 978-0-00-720455-7)
• Coleridge: Selected Poems (Editor - Published by HarperPress in 1996 ISBN 978-0-00-255579-1)
• Coleridge: Darker Reflections (Published by HarperPress in 1998, current edition published by HarperPerenial ISBN 978-0-00-720456-4)
• Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer (Published by HarperPress in 2000, current edition published by HarperPerenial ISBN 978-0-00-720454-0)
• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Published by HarperPress in 2008 ISBN 978-0-00-714952-0)

Ouvrages édités par Richard Holmes (Classic Biographies Series, HarperPerennial)

• Defoe on Sheppard and Wild: The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild by Daniel Defoe (2004, ISBN 978-0-00-711168-8)
• Southey on Nelson: The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey (2004, ISBN 978-0-00-711170-1)
• Scott on Zélide: Portrait of Zélide by Geoffrey Scott (2004, ISBN 978-0-00-711173-2)
• Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson (2005, ISBN 978-0-00-711169-5)
• Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Godwin (2005, ISBN 978-0-00-711176-3)
• Gilchrist on Blake: The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist (2005, ISBN 978-0-00-711171-8)

Notes

Référence de traduction

• (en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Richard Holmes (biographer) » (voir la liste des auteurs)

Annexes

• Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National
• Richard Holmes page at HarperCollins
• The British Academy
• Video: Richard Holmes lecture, Biography: The Past Has a Great Future
• Richard Holmes author page and article archive from The New York Review of Books

The Age of Wonder

• Review in the Independent, September 26, 2008
• The Times review, September 26, 2008
• "Following his footsteps" Interview in the Guardian, Saturday September 27, 2008
• Review in the Daily Telegraph, September 29, 2008
• New York Times review, July 8, 2009

• Portail de la littérature
• Portail du Royaume-Uni