Gilchrist on Blake - The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist

Informationen zum Autor Richard Holmes was born in London in 1945 and educated at Downside School and Churchill College, Cambridge. In 1974 his Shelley: The Pursuit won the Somerset Maugham Award and was described by Stephen Spender as ‘surely the best biography of Shelley ever written’. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, was awarded an OBE in 1992 and the Biographers' Club Lifetime Services to Biography Prize in 2014. He lives in London and Norwich with the novelist Rose Tremain. Alexander Gilchrist (1828 – 1861) wrote, The Life of William Blake , the first biography of the great visionary poet and painter, at a time when he was generally forgotten, ridiculed or dismissed as insane. It is still a standard reference work on the poet. Klappentext LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD Part of a radical new series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist's `The Life of William Blake' is a biographical masterpiece! still thrilling to read and vividly alive. Zusammenfassung LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLD Part of a radical new series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist's 'The Life of William Blake' is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Gilchrist
• Assisted by: Richard Holmes (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Perennial UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2005
• EAN: 9780007111718
• ISBN: 978-0-00-711171-8
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; William Blake, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800