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Article: Heartache; Literary lives (1); William Hazlitt.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 27, 2001
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THE QUARREL OF THE AGE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM HAZLITT.
ACCORDING to this new biography, William Hazlitt was the greatest essayist in English letters. He inherited an anti-establishment outlook from the dissenting tradition into which he was born in 1778, but it is Hazlitt's humanity-both as a person and in his philosophy-which really stands out.
As a young man, he was excited by the French revolution, and he retained an idealised view of Napoleon to the end of his life. But his generous imagination was equally capable of appreciating the prose of a conservative thinker like Edmund Burke. This inclusiveness of thought sits well with what Anthony ...
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