Selected Writings (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Hazlitt, William

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9780192838001: Selected Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0192838008 ISBN 13: 9780192838001

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

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Selected Writings, paperback, Selected Writings (Oxford World's Classics). 5.2"x7.7"x0.8"; 472 pages; 0.7 lb. William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama and art, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. Praised for his eloquence, he was also reviled by conservatives for his radical politics. This edition, thematically organized for ease of access, contains some of his best-known essays, such as "The Indian Jugglers" and "The Fight," as well as more obscure pieces on politics, philosophy, and culture.. . .

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I recommend the Selected Writings of Hazlitt edited by Jan Cook, and the most recent biography, Hazlitt, A Life, by Stanley Jones. (Ottawa Citizen, 13 July 1997)

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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama, and painting, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. What unites this variety is his dramatic and passionate intelligence, his unswerving commitment to individual and political liberty, and his courageous opposition to established political and cultural power. Hailed in 1819 as 'one of the ablest and most eloquent critics of our nation', Hazlitt was also reviled for his political radicalism by the conservative press of the period. His writing engages with many of the important cultural and political debates of a revolutionary period, and retains its power both to provoke and move the reader.

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