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Title: William Hazlitt: The Plain Speaker : The Key Essays (Blackwell Anthologies) by Hazlitt William, Duncan Wu ISBN: 0-631-21057-1 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Why Paulin Loves Hazlitt
Comment: One of the great quotes from Hazlitt says that if something isn't controversial, it isn't interesting. Paulin hates the Brooklyn born land-grabbers because he sees in them the same bigotry and fanaticism that he saw in his fellow Protestants growing up in Belfast. He resents the fact that they are using the bible as a real estate development manual and he resents the notion that some clown from New York can simply get off a plane and claim land that has belonged to local families for generations. As this volume shows, Hazlitt dedicated his life to sparking thought and piercing the pieties of the self righteous. A knitted yarlmuke does not entitle one to the keys to the kingdom. I'm sure Hazlitt (and Paulin!) wouldn't really want them shot; but they would surely wish for them a ticket back to Bensonhurst.
Rating: 5
Summary: A review of the actual book
Comment: Hazlitt is one of the greatest writers of English prose. The Plain Speaker is an essential book and Blackwells have done our culture a service by re-issuing it.
Duncan Wu is a highly-regarded scholar of romanticism. Therefore one can totally rely on the integrity of the text.
Tom Paulin is a foremost authority on Hazlitt and his book The Day-Star of Liberty is also, incidentally, one of the most stimulating books on Edmund Burke of recent times.
Hazlitt's work, sadly, has become obscure even to well-educated readers. It is most regrettable that a 'reviewer' abuses this public platform to mug this fine edition because he is angry at Paulin's intemperate views on Israel. Giving a one-star rating to a great work by one of the finest writers in world literature is surely an inappropriate response.
Rating: 1
Summary: Tom Paulin speaks - addendum
Comment: He said this (as of course is his right), just a couple of days before 4 people were killed in their beds in West Bank, including a 5-year-old. Obviously, this has no relation to his criticism.
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Title: Selected Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by William Hazlitt, John Cook ISBN: 0192838008 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy by Stanley Cavell ISBN: 019513107X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Edward Lear: The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense by Edward Lear, Vivien Noakes ISBN: 0142002275 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Norton Library (Paperback)) by Sigmund Freud ISBN: 0393007707 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 1975 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Vintage International) by William Faulkner ISBN: 067973225X Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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