The Spirit of Controversy

and Other Essays

The Spirit of Controversy
William Hazlitt
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1 Jun 2021 UK
9780199591954
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This volume gathers together some of the most brilliant and influential essays ever written in English. Hazlitt was close to two generations of romantic poets. Early friendship with Coleridge and Wordsworth inspired him to a literary career, but he became disillusioned with their political apostasy. He inspired Keats and contributed to his thinking about the poetic character. A forceful commentator on London, he was also a committed radical, whose ' What is thePeople? ' is a visionary statement of a new democratic politics. The Spirit of Controversy uses versions of the essays as they first appeared, including those originally printed in the cut and thrust ofthe magazines of his day.
Jon Mee is Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. He was previously Professor of Literature at the Universities of Warwick and Oxford, and Margaret Candfield Fellow in English Literature at University College, Oxford. He has worked at the Australian National University and held visiting professorships at ANU, the University of Chicago and the H. E. Huntington LibraryJames 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.
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ISBN-13: 9780199591954
Published: 1 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 400

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