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Hailed as "excellent" (
Harper s), "distinctly eye-opening" (
WashingtonPost.com), and "astonishingly detailed" (
Wall Street Journal), this marvelous biography draws on over a decade of archival research to explore all aspects of William Hazlitt s life. Duncan Wu examines Hazlitt s early aspirations to become a painter, his engagement with revolutionary politics, his rise to prominence as one of England s greatest literary critics, and the disillusionment and poverty of his final years. Along the way, Wu reveals countless new details concerning Hazlitt s relationships with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, William Godwin, J. M. W. Turner, and other important figures of the Romantic era. But Wu sees Hazlitt as an essentially modern writer who took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as it is practiced in our own time. Painstakingly researched and filled with original insight, this biography benefits also from Wu s
New Writings of William Hazlitt, many of which make their appearance here, illuminating obscure passages of Hazlitt s life.
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