City Libraries, City of Gold Coast

Metropolitan Writings, by William Hazlitt ; edited by Gregory Dart

eng

William Hazlitt (1778-1830), that most engaging of English prose writers, is provocatively and congenially at home in this new collection of his city essays, each one sparkling with urbane wit and gossip. Characters from the Regency spring to life: Wordsworth and Byron; sportsmen and dandies; street jugglers and footmen and coffee house bores. There is the London Cockney who ventures through Hyde Park 'as a cat crosses a gutter' and the lady's maid returning from Italy 'as giddy as if she had been up in a balloon'. Gregory Dart reminds us that Hazlitt is not only an important critic and polemicist, but also a wry and reflective observer of human nature, a man who took continual delight in the various pitfalls and paradoxes of metropolitan life. This selection contains many essays that have not previously been available in paperback, together with a short critical introduction and contextual notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Metropolitan Writings

dictionaries

by William Hazlitt ; edited by Gregory Dart

FyfieldBooks

The Indian jugglers -- On living to one's-self -- On going a journey -- On coffee-house politicians -- On the aristocracy of letters -- Why distant objects please -- On Mr Wordsworth's "Excursion" -- On Londoners and country people -- Brummelliana -- On fashion -- On the want of money -- On the feeling of immortality in youth -- Of persons one would wish to have seen -- On footmen -- On a sun-dial -- The free admission -- The sick chamber -- The letter-bell