FROM THE PUBLISHER

Essayist, lecturer, and radical pamphleteer, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was the of greatest English critics and a master of the art of prose. This book is a superb appreciation of the man and his works, at once a revaluation of the aesthetics of Romanticism and a sustained intellectual portrait. Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism when it was first published in 1983, it is now reissued with a new preface and bibliography by the author.

FROM THE CRITICS

Michael Foot - New Republic

Few literary figures in recent decades have seen their reputations rise as securely as hazllitt's. Now it will soar. David Bromwich's book is the most persuasive and ambitious exploration of Hazlitt's genius hitherto attempted.

Duncan Wu

Bromwich's volume was first published in 1983, and its achievement has never been questioned. All Romanticists recognize that this is one of the great critical works in our field to appear in the post-war era. it aspires to (and achieves) a classical simplicity and elegance.—University of Glasgow

Kenneth Johnston - Indiana University