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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
William Hazlitt; Jon Cook |
ISBN: | 0192817345 9780192817341 |
OCLC Number: | 22708283 |
Description: | xlvi, 423 pages ; 19 cm |
Contents: | What is the people? -- On consistency of opinion -- Illustrations of 'The times' newspaper -- Character of Mrs. Burke -- Malthus -- French revolution -- On modern comedy -- The fight -- Indian jugglers -- On public opinion -- On fashion -- Our national theatres -- English characteristics -- Brummelliana -- Self-love and benevolence -- Mind and motive -- On personal identity -- Characteristics -- My first acquaintance with poets -- from: the life of Napoleon -- Edmund Kean -- from: Liber amoris: conclusion -- Fragments on art ; Why the arts are not progressive ; Whether the fine arts are promoted by academics -- On gusto -- Originality -- On the Elgin marbles -- Hogarth -- On poetry in general -- Shakespeare's Macbeth ; Coriolanus -- Mr. Wordsworth. |
Series Title: | World's classics. |
Other Titles: | Works. |
Responsibility: | William Hazlitt ; edited with an introduction by Jon Cook. |
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Abstract:
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer - essayist, philosopher, critic, biographer, political commentator and polemicist. This selection contains some well-known essays, but also some lesser-known writings on politics, philosophy and culture.
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