Publisher's Synopsis
This biography considers Coleridge as a man apart from his writings. Holmes' objective is to give an impression of what the poet was like in person and as a conversationalist. Holmes reveals him to be disorganized, slothful, neurotically anxious and overly dependent on others. The book won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award.;The author has also written "Shelley: The Persuit", which won the Somerset Maugham Award and a novel "Footsteps".
