In this selection from the two-volume "Plain Speaker," Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address key critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose. The volume contains a brilliant introduction to the central themes of the volume by Tom Paulin who reads Hazlitt's improvisatory, intensely physical and tactile prose, along a dazzling line of critical discourse that ranges from Burke to Barthes and Derrida, embracing en route, Lawrence and Hughes, Picasso and Pollock, and Stravinsky.
Appended are: the "Advertisement" to the Paris edition of "Table Talk" in which Hazlitt speaks of combining literary and conversational styles; "A Half-length" portrait by Hazlitt of the Tory politician and reviewer John Wilson Croker, an impassioned piece of writing revealed here to have been of demonstrable importance to Charles Dickens; and another portrait in words, this time of Hazlitt, by John Hamilton Reynolds, the friend of Keats.
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In this selection from the two-volume "Plain Speaker," Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address key critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose. The volume contains a brilliant introduction to the central themes of the volume by Tom Paulin who reads Hazlitt's improvisatory, intensely physical and tactile prose, along a dazzling line of critical discourse that ranges from Burke to Barthes and Derrida, embracing en route, Lawrence and Hughes, Picasso and Pollock, and Stravinsky.
Appended are: the "Advertisement" to the Paris edition of "Table Talk" in which Hazlitt speaks of combining literary and conversational styles; "A Half-length" portrait by Hazlitt of the Tory politician and reviewer John Wilson Croker, an impassioned piece of writing revealed here to have been of demonstrable importance to Charles Dickens; and another portrait in words, this time of Hazlitt, by John Hamilton Reynolds, the friend of Keats.
Imprint | Blackwell Publishers |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Release date | November 1998 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | December 1998 |
Authors | W. Hazlitt |
Dimensions | 225 x 141 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 248 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-21056-6 |
Barcode | 9780631210566 |
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LSN | 0-631-21056-3 |