Sidetracks

In this beautiful reissue, the author of ''Footsteps'' collects the biographical curiosities he discovered while researching the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir.‘Sidetracks'' is a sister book to ''Footsteps'', conjured up from decades of ''wanderings from the straight and narrow'' of his major biographies of Shelley and Coleridge. As Holmes himself says, ''to...