Metropolitan Writings

by Hazlitt, William; Dart, Gregory

• ISBN13: 9781857547580
• ISBN10: 1857547586
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Provocatively and congenially at home in this new collection of his city essays, the engaging late-18th-century and early-19th-century English prose writer William Hazlitt sparkles with urban wit and gossip. Characters from the Regency spring to life in these essays, including William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, sportsmen and dandies, street jugglers and footmen, and coffee house bores.

Author Biography

Gregory Dart teaches English literature at University College London.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
The Indian Jugglers	1	(14)
On Living to One's-Self	15	(13)
On Going a Journey	28	(10)
On Coffee-House Politicians	38	(17)
On the Aristocracy of Letters	55	(11)
Why Distant Objects Please	66	(10)
On Mr Wordsworth's Excursion	76	(6)
On Londoners and Country People	82	(13)
Brummelliana	95	(4)
On Fashion	99	(6)
On the Want of Money	105	(16)
On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth	121	(12)
Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen	133	(14)
On Footmen	147	(7)
On a Sun-Dial	154	(9)
The Free Admission	163	(7)
The Sick Chamber	170	(7)
The Letter-Bell	177	(8)
Notes	185	(15)
Select Bibliography	200