The Fight
Selected Essays
$42.64
- Paperback
450 pages
- Release Date
26 January 2027
Summary
A lively, wide-ranging collection of writing by nineteenth-century luminary William Hazlitt—a pioneering art and theatre critic, a radical political commentator, and one of the English language’s greatest essayists.
“I am no politician, and still less can I be said to be a party-man: but I have a hatred of tyranny, and a contempt for its tools; and this feeling I have expressed as often and as strongly as I could. I cannot sit quietly down under the claims of barefaced power, and I ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896230267 |
|---|---|
| Author: | William Hazlitt, David Bromwich |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 450 |
| Release Date: | 26 January 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
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William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is widely regarded as one of the greatest essayists in the English language, known for his art and literary criticism and his radical political commentary. Also an accomplished painter, Hazlitt befriended many other prominent nineteenth-century figures during his life, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, John Keats, and Stendhal. Among his most admired works are the collections Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, Table-Talk, and The Spirit of the Age.
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University. His books include Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic, Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s, The Intellectual Career of Edmund Burke, and, most recently, American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us. He edited the anthology Writing Politics for NYRB Classics in 2020.
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