Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic

by David Bromwich

Metaphysician, painter, radical pamphleteer, critic, and essayist, William Hazlitt was both a brilliant polemicist and a persuasive expositor of ideas. This acclaimed study--a 1984 nominee for the National Book Critics Award in criticism--fairly presents the two sides of his achievement. It is at once an intellectual portrait of this skeptical genius and a contribution to the history of romanticism.

Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism

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First published October 31, 1985

About the author

David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University.