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All That is Worth Remembering: Selected Essays of William Hazlitt

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By (author): William Hazlitt

Why read Hazlitt today? Because no one celebrates better than he did the imaginative power of the mind as it invests itself in theatre, painting, literature, music and philosophy. But there is nothing fanciful or lightweight about him. He sees clearly into the darkness of the human heart, perceives 'its various threads of meanness, spite, cowardice, want of feeling, and want of understanding, of indifference towards others and ignorance of ourselves'. That undeceived vision and love of life makes him as compelling as ever. Duncan Wu See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 200g
  • Dimensions: 120 x 190mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Jan 2014
  • Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781907903946

About William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt is one of the great English essayists. He was born in 1778 in Maidstone Kent. Soon after the Hazlitt family went briefly to America before settling in Wem Shropshire where Hazlitt's father became a Unitarian preacher. As a young man Hazlitt followed his father into the ministry but lost his faith. After failing in his ambition to become a portrait painter he took a job as journalist with one of the most important daily newspapers of the day the Morning Chronicle. He had discovered his calling as one of the most courageous writers of his time unafraid of attacking powerful figures including the poet laureate politicians even the king. In the course of a career that lasted less than three decades he wrote some of the finest literary journalism art criticism sports commentary and theatrical reviews of the Romantic period. Had it not been for him the conversational essay we know today would not exist. Though he enjoyed considerable fame he died in poverty and relative obscurity in Frith Street London in 1830. Duncan Wu was a postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy (1991 - 4) and Professor of English Literature at the Universities of Glasgow (1995 - 2000) and Oxford (2000 - 8). He is currently Professor of English at Georgetown University in Washington DC. His biography William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

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