Is this man the last of the great Romantics?
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Biography has come very alive as a literary form, according to biographer Richard Holmes, who is shortly to publish the second volume of his biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He believes that biography now fills a gap formed by the collapse of the traditional novel, with biography having become a story-telling form. He feels he can only write biographies of people who have been dead for at least three generations, and believes that it is necessary to resurrect the whole period in which the subject lived.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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Listening between the lines
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Poet Seamus Heaney takes considerable care when reading from his own work to present each word to the audience with great solemnity. He unites the individual poems with a commentary between them, and often makes amusing asides. There is a much less self-consciously literary atmosphere when novelist Iain Banks reads from his own work. Banks seems much more confident than Heaney that his inspiration will not dry up. He does not read as well as Heaney, as his sense of urgency is sometimes too great.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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An old master's engraved new world
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The British Museum in London, England, is staging an exhibition entitled 'Rembrandt the Printmaker.' This exhibition presents around one third of the 300 prints produced by Rembrandt.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2001
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