Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Spirit Of Controversy And Other Essays
Author(s): Hazlitt William, James (King's College London) Grande
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199591954
Pages: 448 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2021
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Philosophy: Aesthetics