The Spirit of the Age

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The Spirit of the Age is an 1825 collection of critical essays by William Hazlitt that offers incisive portraits of leading writers, thinkers, and public figures of his time.

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instanceOf essay collection
non-fiction book
author William Hazlitt NERFINISHED
centuryOfPublication 19th century
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalStance often personal and subjective
often politically radical
describes intellectual climate of the early 19th century
firstPublishedIn London NERFINISHED
focusesOn British Romantic-era culture
genre biographical essays
literary criticism
hasInfluenced later Victorian critics
modern biographical criticism
hasPart essay on Charles Lamb
essay on David Ricardo
essay on Edmund Burke
essay on Francis Jeffrey
essay on Henry Brougham
essay on Jeremy Bentham
essay on Leigh Hunt
essay on Lord Byron
essay on Lord Castlereagh
essay on Lord Eldon
essay on Madame de Staël
essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge
essay on Sir Walter Scott
essay on Thomas Malthus
essay on Thomas Moore
essay on William Cobbett
essay on William Gifford
essay on William Godwin
essay on William Wordsworth
essay on the Edinburgh Reviewers
essay on the Utilitarians
language English
literaryPeriod Romantic period
mediaType print
notableFor blend of biography and criticism
incisive portraits of contemporary figures
originalTitle The Spirit of the Age; or, Contemporary Portraits NERFINISHED
partOf William Hazlitt bibliography
publicationType book-length collection of essays
publicationYear 1825
subject leading thinkers of the early 19th century
leading writers of the early 19th century
public figures of the early 19th century
theme character studies of contemporaries
cultural criticism
political commentary

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William Hazlitt notableWork The Spirit of the Age