Hazlitt : a life, from Winterslow to Frith Street

Author(s)

• Jones, Stanley

Bibliographic Information

Hazlitt : a life, from Winterslow to Frith Street

Stanley Jones

（Oxford lives）

Oxford University Press, 1991

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Glimpsed through the biographies of the major literary figures with whom he was associated, our image of Hazlitt has been limited, and often distorted. Stanley Jones portrays a man almost incapacitated by his own diffidence, a loyal friend and family man, yet an incorruptible critic, willing to defy social and literary conventions to espouse his opinions. Drawing on a range of sources, and revealing much new information, this is a portrait of one of the most representative figures of the Romantic period.

Table of Contents

• Withdrawal from London
• the loopholes of retreat
• return to town
• parliamentary reporter
• political controversy and art criticism
• dramatic critic
• the end of public hopes
• "The Examiner"
• "The Round Tables"
• the claims of barefaced power
• apostates from liberty
• the leopard and the scorpion
• "The London Magazine"
• the end of private hopes
• second marriage
• on the Continent
• the final years.

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• NCID: BA14292349
• ISBN:
  • 0192828975
• LCCN: 91012821
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford, England ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 397 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR4773
  • DC20 : 824/.7
  • DC20 : b
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 -- Biography
  • LCSH : Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11025787