Duncan Wu Bücher

Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. In this first full biography, Duncan Wu draws upon over a decade of archival research to explore all aspects of Hazlitt's life, from his early aspirations to become a painter, his engagement with revolutionary politics, his rise to prominence as one of England's greatest literary critics, and the disillusionment and poverty of his final years. Along the way, Wu reveals countless new details concerning Hazlitt's relationships with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, William Godwin, J. M. W. Turner, and other important figures of the Romantic era. But Wu sees Hazlitt as an essentially modern writer who took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as it is practiced in our own time. Painstakingly researchedand filled with original insight, this biography benefits also from Wu's New Writings of William Hazlitt , many of which make their appearance here, illuminating obscure passages of Hazlitt's life.

Since it was first published in 1995, Duncan Wu’s An Anthology has been used and appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe.Now, in response to feedback from the classroom, and extensive research into the needs of lecturers, Romanticism is back in a completely revised and expanded third edition. NEW ADDITIONS FOR THE THIRD An Anthology remains theonly textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts All of the featured texts have been edited especially for students for this volume - from manuscript and early printed sources - by Duncan Wu.

Contains complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen; Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798); Wordsworth's Two- Part Prelude; early and revised versions of Coleridge's The Eolian Harp, and The Ancient Mariner.