Haddock in the air? That would be Thursday. ![]() 'Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden'. Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama $32.50 NZD Whether he is putting heart and soul into building the perfect grotto in his Devon garden with his wife and the stonemason, rambling around a semiaban-doned and despoiled Calabria, or wrestling with the logistics of baby-rearing, both existing admirers and new readers will enjoy the exuberance and humor that Departures & Arrivals has to offer.Show more He transplĪnts the reader to all manners of eclectic terrain: from early childhood adventures among the shops, streets, and eccentrics inhabiting the darkest London suburb of his upbringing to an elephant fair in India from the faded glamour of days and nights on the Orient Express to a roughneck settlement of opal miners in Australia, where men carrying large amounts of cash travel armed, but still have been known to disappear. But it is continually fascinating and its darker tone is also a measure of its challenge and spiritual impact.Show moreĭepartures and Arrivals by Eric Newby $24.00 NZDįrom an open boat ride on the Ganges to the Indian Ocean (pushing in the water most of the way) to long-distance cycling through Europe to exploring the Forbidden City in China, the tales of Eric Newby's travels are always entertaining in his recollections of highlights from an eventful life. Coleridge's later life was not happy, either domestically or professionally. Holmes traces the development of Coleridge into a legend amongst the younger generation of Romantic writers and the influence he had on Hazlitt, de Quincey, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Walter Scott, Carlyle, Sterling, F.D. And after a desperate time of transition, Coleridge re-emerged on the literary scene as a new kind of philosophical and meditative author. His marriage broke up, his opium addiction increased, he quarrelled with Wordsworth, his own son Hartley Coleridge (a gifted poet himself) became an alcoholic. It was a period of domestic and professional turmoil. This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge's career (1804-1834) during which he travelled restlessly through the Mediterranean, returned to his old haunts in the Lake District and the West Country, and finally settled in Highgate. Dismissed by many as an opium addict, plagiarist, political apostate and mystic charlatan, Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was. ![]() Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Mo Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. Coleridge - Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes $32.50 NZD
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