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I have been an admirer of William Hazlitt for many years and have long hoped for a renewal of his reputation, and this magisterial biography may just do the job. A hard pressed fighter for liberty and truth, disappointed in love, and dying in poverty, he could still say with his last breath: "Well, I've had a happy life." Long after his old "friends" Wordsworth and Coleridge had pusillanimously abandoned their youthful dreams of freedom to take government sinecures, Hazlitt was always there to remind them of their shameful about face. Though the first great art and theatre critic in English, it is above all this strength of character that gives him a right to endure. He is without doubt the finest essayist in our language, and the greatest prose stylist of his age. Read him and stand in awe.
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Quarrel of the Age by A. C. Grayling (Hardcover - July 19, 2001)
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