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How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
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First Published:
Jul 2009, 576 pages
Paperback:
Mar 2010, 576 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Jo Perry
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Richard Holmes
Biographer, poet, editor and historian Richard Holmes was born in London and attended Cambridge. He’s the author of:
"Of course I think biography aspires to be an art, just as the novel does. It is a piece of imaginative storytelling, as well as an historical investigation. It celebrates the wonderful diversity of human nature, and its aim is enlightenment. But biography is also a vocation, a calling. The dead call to us out of the past, like owls calling out of the dark. They ask to be heard, remembered, understood."
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