The Spirit of Controversy: And Other Essays

by William Hazlitt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199591954
• ISBN13: 9780199591954
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.7"