Duncan Wu Livres

Romanticism is where the modern age begins, and Hazlitt was its most articulate spokesman. No one else had the ability to see it whole; no one else knew so many of its politicians, poets, and philosophers. In this first full biography, Duncan Wu draws upon over a decade of archival research to explore all aspects of Hazlitt's life, from his early aspirations to become a painter, his engagement with revolutionary politics, his rise to prominence as one of England's greatest literary critics, and the disillusionment and poverty of his final years. Along the way, Wu reveals countless new details concerning Hazlitt's relationships with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, William Godwin, J. M. W. Turner, and other important figures of the Romantic era. But Wu sees Hazlitt as an essentially modern writer who took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as it is practiced in our own time. Painstakingly researchedand filled with original insight, this biography benefits also from Wu's New Writings of William Hazlitt , many of which make their appearance here, illuminating obscure passages of Hazlitt's life.

Since it was first published in 1995, Duncan Wu’s An Anthology has been used and appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe.Now, in response to feedback from the classroom, and extensive research into the needs of lecturers, Romanticism is back in a completely revised and expanded third edition. NEW ADDITIONS FOR THE THIRD An Anthology remains theonly textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts All of the featured texts have been edited especially for students for this volume - from manuscript and early printed sources - by Duncan Wu.

These are the collected journals and poetry of Nicholas Heiney who died in 2006, aged 23, after taking his own life. These vivid writings about his adventures on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, together with his poetry, remained undiscovered until after his death. His parents, Paul and Libby Heiney were urged to publish them by Prof. Duncan Wu of Oxford University, Nick s former tutor, who realized the depth and maturity in both his prose and poetry. It is, as he writes in his introduction, a powerful piece of writing, exemplary in its sanity and clear-sightedness .