{"product_id":"the-plain-speaker-isbn-9780631210573","title":"The Plain Speaker","description":"In this selection from the two-volume \u003ci\u003ePlain Speaker,\u003c\/i\u003e Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address some of the most important critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli style=\"list-style: none\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides the only edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Plain Speaker\u003c\/i\u003e available outside libraries since 1928.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains Hazlitt's seminal essays on plain speaking and the major romantic topics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes a brilliant introduction by Tom Paulin, the greatest poet-critic of his generation and the editorial expertise of Duncan Wu.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Introduction by Tom Paulin. \u003cp\u003eEditor's Note.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditorial Principles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. \u003ci\u003eThe Plain Speaker.\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. On the Prose-Style of Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. On the Conversation of Authors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Same Subject Continued.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. On Reason and Imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. On Application to Study.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. On the Old Age of Artists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. On Envy (A Dialogue).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Whether Genius in Conscious of its Powers?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. On the Pleasure of Hating.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. On Egotism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Hot and Cold.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. On the Difference Between Writing and Speaking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. On a Portrait of an English Lady, by Vandyke.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix I: Advertisement to Hazlitt's \u003ci\u003eTable Talk\u003c\/i\u003e (Paris, 1825).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix II: 'A Half-length': an uncollected Hazlitt portrait.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix III: Reynolds' account of Hazlitt, 28 April 1817.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is a beautifully presented edition and a fine addition to Hazlitt scholarship.\" \u003ci\u003eYear's Work in English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e  \u003cb\u003eDuncan Wu\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eRomanticism: An Anthology, Women Romantic Poets: An Anthology, Romanticism: A Critical reader, A Companion to Romanticism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWordsworth's Five-Book Prelude,\u003c\/i\u003e all published by Blackwell. He also edits the \u003ci\u003eCharles Lamb Bulletin,\u003c\/i\u003e and is currently preparing a 9-volume edition of Hazlitt's selected works for publication in 1998.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Paulin\u003c\/b\u003e is G.M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford University. His major study of William Hazlitt, \u003ci\u003eThe Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style,\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1998 by Faber and Faber, publishers of his several volumes of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems 1972-1990,\u003c\/i\u003e and of the critical collections \u003ci\u003eMinotaur: Poetry and the Nation State\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eWriting to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays 1980-1996.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eThe Plain Speaker\u003c\/i\u003e was the last great original work of William Hazlitt (1778-1830), the finest prose writer of the romantic period. It is written with characteristic passion, and displays his erudition and wit to fine effect in some of his most important essays: \"On the Prose-Style of Poets\", \"On the Conversation of Authors\", \"On Reason and Imagination\", and \"On Envy\", to name a few. \u003cp\u003eIn this selection from the two-volume \u003ci\u003ePlain Speaker,\u003c\/i\u003e Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address key critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose. The volume contains a brilliant introduction to the central themes of the volume by Tom Paulin who reads Hazlitt's improvisatory, intensely physical and tactile prose, along a dazzling line of critical discourse that ranges from Burke to Barthes and Derrida, embracing en route, Lawrence and Hughes, Picasso and Pollock, and Stravinsky.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppended are: the \"Advertisement\" to the Paris edition of \u003ci\u003eTable Talk\u003c\/i\u003e in which Hazlitt speaks of combining literary and conversational styles; \"A Half-length\" portrait by Hazlitt of the Tory politician and reviewer John Wilson Croker, an impassioned piece of writing revealed here to have been of demonstrable importance to Charles Dickens; and another portrait in words, this time of Hazlitt, by John Hamilton Reynolds, the friend of Keats.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990312206565,"sku":"NP9780631210573","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631210573.jpg?v=1761787310","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-plain-speaker-isbn-9780631210573","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}