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New Writings of William Hazlitt
Contributor(s): Wu, Duncan (Editor)
ISBN: 0199207062     ISBN-13: 9780199207060
Publisher: Clarendon Press
OUR PRICE:   $384.75  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2007
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 824.8
LCCN: 2007013468
 
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Publisher Description:
The 205 new writings by William Hazlitt collected for the first time in this volume provide a fuller picture than has hitherto been available of his career as journalist, particularly his work for the Morning Chronicle, The Times and The Atlas. Newly discovered works include major essays on
the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, a defence of Byron and Shelley against charges of immorality, an analysis of the three trials of the Regency publisher and writer William Hone, and a series of reminiscences and anecdotes from Hazlitt's last years. In addition, there are important essays on
Napoleon, the Vienna Congress, and on Southey's appointment as Poet Laureate; notices of Edmund Kean, Dora Jordan and Fanny Kemble; reviews of Coleridge's Christabel, Byron's Sardanapalus and Hunt's Rimini; and essays on the fine arts, including exhibitions at the British Institution. Duncan Wu has
surveyed all the publications for which Hazlitt wrote, as well as many for which he didn't, to find these neglected works. Each one is edited from its original printed source, prefaced with a detailed explanation of its attribution, and annotations providing information necessary to a full
understanding of context and content. The volume also provides a partial bibliography of Hazlitt's journalism.