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How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
by Richard Holmes
Book Reviewed by:This article relates to The Age of Wonder
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."
This "beyond the book article" relates to The Age of Wonder. It originally ran in September 2009 and has been updated for the
March 2010 paperback edition.
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