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English
Worlds Classics
16 September 2021
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is among the most brilliant critics and essayists to have ever written in the English language. Combative and insightful, he was close to two generations of romantic poets. His early friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth as a young man inspired him to a literary career, but he became disillusioned with them as apostates from the cause of liberty he associated with the French Revolution. As a mature writer, he inspired John Keats and contributed to his thinking about imagination and poetic character. A forceful commentator on contemporary London, he was also a committed radical, whose 'What is the People?' is an almost visionary statement of a new democratic politics. The Spirit of Controversy collects together Hazlitt's most coruscating and influential essays, using versions as they first appeared, including those that originally found their way into print in the cut and thrust of the newspapers and magazines of his day.
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Edited by:   ,
Imprint:   Worlds Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 201mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   308g
ISBN:   9780199591954
ISBN 10:   0199591954
Series:   Oxford World's Classics
Pages:   400
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of William Hazlitt 1: Reply to Malthus 2: Fragments on Art 3: Mr Kean's Shylock 4: On Imitation 5: On Gusto 6: On the Elgin Marbles 7: Mrs Siddons 8: Mr Kemble's King John 9: Coriolanus 10: Macbeth 11: Hamlet 12: Character of Mr Burke 13: On Court Influence 14: On Fashion 15: Minor Theatres 16: On the Pleasure of Painting 17: Character of Cobbett 18: The Indian Jugglers 19: On a Landscape by Nicholas Poussin 20: The Fight 21: On Familiar Style 22: On the Spirit of Monarchy 23: My First Acquaintance with Poets 24: On Londoners and Country People 25: Jeremy Bentham 26: Lord Byron 27: William Godwin 28: Mr Wordsworth 29: On the Pleasure of Hating 30: Our National Theatres 31: The Spirit of Controversy 32: The Free Admission 33: The Letter-Bell Explanatory Notes

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.

Reviews for The Spirit of Controversy: and Other Essays

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 *


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