The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt

'a splendid edition, and Duncan Wu deserves the gratitude of all students of Romantic writing' The Wordsworth Circle 'For sheer consistency of talent in what he produced over a fraught and distracted life, you cannot beat Hazlitt... Of Hazlitt's 60 or so essays, a higher proportion even than Bacon's are winners. And nearly all are as fresh and sinewy as when first written (you can read them in the superb new nine-volume edition of his Works by Pickering and Chatto)... I have been roaming around it with enormous pleasure.' The Spectator