The Spirit of Controversy by William Hazlitt
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.
The ambitious attention to contextual situations, and the generous help afforded through introduction and annotations, make this the best selection yet for undergraduates, and the most affordable genuinely good edition for any Hazlitt reader* Koenraad Claes, Hazlitt Review *
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 Library
James 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 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199591954 |
| Title | The Spirit of Controversy |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2021-06-24 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
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