Published in 1825, these sketches take the measure of the men who dominated Hazlitt’s England: Jeremy Bentham and William Godwin, Coleridge and Wordsworth, Walter Scott and Byron, Malthus, Horne Tooke and Edward Irving, and the reviewers and politicians of the day. Each portrait mixes keen admiration with cutting criticism.
A masterpiece of the English essay and a vivid group portrait of the Romantic generation. Download the free EPUB.