Author: William HazlittPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Letter from William Hazlitt to Sir John Soane
Author: William HazlittWilliam Hazlitt
Author: Duncan WuPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191615366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. By interpreting it for his contemporaries, he speaks to us of ourselves - of the culture and world we now inhabit. Perhaps the most important development of his time, the creation of a mass media, is one that now dominates our lives. Hazlitt's livelihoo was dependent on it. As the biography argues, he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot. Duncan Wu's profile of one of the greatest journalists in the language draws on over a decade of archival research in libraries across Britain and North America, to reveal for the first time such matters as why Godwin broke with Hazlitt; how Hazlitt came to know Sir John Soane and J. M. W. Turner; the true nature of Hazlitt's dealings with Thomas Medwin, and what the likes of Joseph Farington and Sir Thomas Lawrence thought of him. In addition, it sheds new light on Hazlitt's dealings with such figures as Francis Jeffrey, Robert Stodart, John M'Creery, Henry Crabb Robinson, Joseph Parkes, John Cam Hobhouse, and Stendhal. It benefits also from Wu's New Writings of William Hazlitt, many of which make their appearance here, illuminating hitherto obscure passages of Hazlitt's life.
The Letters of William Hazlitt
Author: William HazlittPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349047589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Portrait of Sir John Soane, R. A. (1753-1837) Set Forth in Letters from His Friends (1775-1837)
Author: Arthur Thomas BoltonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Letter from William Hazlitt to Mr Black
Author: William HazlittJohn Soane
Author: Gillian DarleyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300086959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
John Soane (1753-1837) was one of the most influential and original of all English architects. In this lavishly illustrated biography, Darley places Soane's life and buildings side by side, and her insights into this complex man and his turbulent life add a great deal to the understanding of his extraordinary work. 235 illustrations, 75 in color.
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Letter from William Hazlitt
Author: William HazlittThe Hummingbird Cabinet
Author: Judith PascoePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801443626
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"This book is . . . a romantic history of romantic collecting."
Author: William Hazlitt