Read Smart: In conversation with Richard Holmes

Tune into the next 'In Conversation' podcast, where we chat to Richard Holmes, who has been shortlisted for his book, The Boundless Deep. In Holmes’ extraordinary biography of a younger Tennyson, we witness him wrestling with mind-altering ideas about geology and deep time, the vastness, beauty, and terror of the new cosmology, and the challenges of social revolution. Tennyson’s wild imagination and deep engagement with these concepts helped him emerge as the poetic voice of his generation.

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