Collected Works Of William Hazlitt - Couverture souple

Hazlitt, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408655705 ISBN 13 : 9781408655702

Editeur : Read Books, 2008

Synopsis

This early work by William Hazlitt is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a collection of essays on various subjects by one of the unsung masters of the English language. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in English literature. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Of the essays in this volume some have already been published in Literary Remains Sketches and Essays, or ffintersloiv (see Bibliographical Note to Vol. xi.), and the rest (with one exception) are now reprinted for the first time. The exception is The Sick Chamber which was published by Mr. I reland in his Wi Utam Haalitt Essayist and Critic, Selections from his Writings, Some of the essays now republished for the first time have been attributed to Hazlitt by Mr. W. C. Hazlitt (M emoirs, 1867, 1. xxii-xxxil Chronological Catalogue), or by Mr. I reland L ist of the Writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt); others have not before been identified. The Editors, however, have not included any essay as to Hazlitt sauthorship of which any reasonable doubt can exist. Reference may here be made to a few essays which, though they may have been written by Hazlitt, have been excluded from the present volume, because the evidence of their authorship was not sufficiently strong. They are arranged in the following list under the heading of the Magazine in which they first appeared. I. In Tie Nem Monthly Magazine. I. Four papers entitled The Confessional (i Szz, vol. iv. pp. 349,450; vol. V, pp. 54, 406) which read very much as if they were written by Hazlitt during the Liber A moris period, z. An essay entitled Social Grievances (1822, vol. v. p. 412). 3. An essay on The Influence of Books on the Progress of Manners (M ay, 1828, vol. xxii. p. 409). II. In The Liberal. I. In The Liberal (sol. 11. 1823) appeared an essay entitled AS unday s Fete at St. Cloud which was reprinted (without mention being made of its source) under the title A Fete at St. Cloud and attributed to Hazlitt in a volume of miscellanies called The Talisman ;or Bouquet of Literature and the Fine Arts (1831), edited by Mrs. Alaric A. Watts. The essay shows no trace of Hazlitt shandiwork, and seems to h
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Hazlitt sfather, a minister io the Unitarian Charch, was the son of an Antrim dissenter, who had removed to Tipperary; Hazlitt smother was the daughter of a Cambridgeshire yeoman; so that there is small room for wonder if Hazlitt were all his life distinguished by a fine pugnadousness of mind, a fiery courage, an excellent doggedness of temper, and (not to crack the wind of the poor metaphor) a brilliancy in the use of his hands unequalled in his time, and since his time, by any writing Englishman. Of course, he was very much else; or this monument to his genius would scarce be building, this draft to his credit would have been drawn for To-M orrow on To-D ay. But, while he lived, his fighting talent was the sole thing in his various and splendid gift that was evident to the powers that were; and, inasmuch as he loved nothing so dearly as asserting himself to the disadvantage of certain superstitions which the said powers esteemed the very stuff of life, they did their utmost to dissemble his uncommon merits, and to present him to the world at large as a person whose morals were deplorable, whose nose was pimpled, whose mind was lewd, whose character would no more bear inspection than his English, whose heart and soul and taste were irremediable, and who, as he persisted in regarding the Corsican fiend as a culmination of human genius and character, must for that reason especially (but there were many others) be execrated as a public enemy, and stuck in the pillory whenever, in the black malice of his corrupt and poisonous heart, he sought, by feigning an affection for Shakespeare, or an interest in metaphysics, to.recommend his vulgar, mean, pernicious personality to the attention of a loyal. God-fearing, church-going, tax-paying, Pope-and-P retender-hating British Public.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Read Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408655705
• ISBN 13: 9781408655702
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 532
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