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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as a young man
inspired him to a literary career, but he became disillusioned with them as apostates from the cause of liberty he associated with the French Revolution. As a mature writer, he inspired John Keats and contributed to his thinking about imagination and poetic character. A forceful commentator on
contemporary London, he was also a committed radical, whose 'What is the People?' is an almost visionary statement of a new democratic politics. The Spirit of Controversy collects together Hazlitt's most coruscating and influential essays, using versions as they first appeared, including those that originally found their way into print in the cut and thrust of the newspapers and magazines of his day.
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/01/2021
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780199591954
ISBN10: 0199591954
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 19th Century
and held visiting professorships at ANU, the University of Chicago and the H. E. Huntington Library James Grande is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King's College London. He was previously a research assistant on the Leverhulme-funded Godwin Diary Project at Oxford, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at KCL, and a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC project 'Music
in London, 1800-1851'. He is a trustee of Keats-Shelley House in Rome and editor of the Keats-Shelley Review.
inspired him to a literary career, but he became disillusioned with them as apostates from the cause of liberty he associated with the French Revolution. As a mature writer, he inspired John Keats and contributed to his thinking about imagination and poetic character. A forceful commentator on
contemporary London, he was also a committed radical, whose 'What is the People?' is an almost visionary statement of a new democratic politics. The Spirit of Controversy collects together Hazlitt's most coruscating and influential essays, using versions as they first appeared, including those that originally found their way into print in the cut and thrust of the newspapers and magazines of his day.
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/01/2021
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780199591954
ISBN10: 0199591954
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 19th Century
About the Author
William Hazlitt
and held visiting professorships at ANU, the University of Chicago and the H. E. Huntington Library James Grande is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture at King's College London. He was previously a research assistant on the Leverhulme-funded Godwin Diary Project at Oxford, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at KCL, and a postdoctoral research fellow on the ERC project 'Music
in London, 1800-1851'. He is a trustee of Keats-Shelley House in Rome and editor of the Keats-Shelley Review.