Duncan Wu, Tom Paulin, David Bromwich

The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 8

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Produktbeschreibung

William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 845g
• ISBN-13: 9781138763272
• ISBN-10: 1138763276
• Artikelnr.: 71578798

Inhaltsangabe

List of abbreviations
Introductory note
Text
Manuscripts
Reception
Brief biographical directory of selected personages
T he Plain
I On the Prose
Style of Poets
Essay II On Dreams
Essay III On the Conversation of Authors
Essay IV The Same Subject Continued
Essay V On Reason and Imagination
Essay VI On Application to Study
Essay VII On Londoners and Country People
Essay VIII On the Spirit of Obligations
Essay IX On the Old Age of Artists
Essay X On Envy (A Dialogue)
Essay XI On Sitting for O ne's Picture
Essay XII Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?
Essay XIII On the Pleasure of Hating
Essay XIV On Dr Spurzheim's Theory
Essay XV On Egotism
Essay XVI Hot and Cold
Essay XVII The New School of Reform
Essay XVIII On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life
Essay XIX On the Look of a Gentleman
Essay XX On Reading Old Books
Essay XXI On Personal Character
Essay XXII On People of Sense
Essay XXIII On Antiquity
Essay XXIV On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking
Essay XXV On a Portrait of an English Lady, by Vandyke
Essay XXVI On Novelty and Familiarity
Essay XXVII On Old English Writers and Speakers
Essay XXVIII Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars
Essay XXIX Sir Walter Scott, Racine, and Shakespear
Essay XXX On Depth and Superficiality
Essay XXXI On Respectable People
Essay XXXII On the Jealousy and the Spleen of Party
Notes
Books referred to in the notes to volume.