Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA (born 5 November 1945) is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.
Books in order of publication:
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)
My Fantoms by Théophile Gautier (Edited and translated – Published by Quartet Books in 1976, reprinted by the New York Review of Books, 2008
Shelley on Love: Selected Writings (Published by Anvil Books in 1980, current edition published by HarperPress
Coleridge (Past Masters) (Published by Oxford University Press in 1982)
Nerval: The Chimeras (translated by Peter Jay with an introduction by Holmes, Published by Anvil Press in 1985)
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (Published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1985, current edition published by HarperPerennial
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 HarperPerennial
Dr Johnson and Mr. Savage (Published Hodder and Stoughton in 1993, current edition published by HarperPerennial
Coleridge: Selected Poems (Editor – Published by HarperPress in 1996
Coleridge: Darker Reflections (Published by HarperPress in 1998, current edition published by HarperPerennial
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer (Published by HarperPress in 2000, current edition published by HarperPerennial
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Published by HarperPress in 2008
Falling Upwards: How we Took to the Air (Published by William Collins in 2013
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer (Published by William Collins in 2016
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief (Published by HarperCollins in 2025
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