The Spirit Of The Age Contemporary Portraits

The Spirit of the Age (full title The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits) is a collection of character sketches by the early 19th century English essayist, literary critic, and social commentator William Hazlitt, portraying 25 men, mostly British, whom he believed to represent significant trends in the thought, literature, and politics of his time. The subjects include thinkers, social reformers, politicians, poets, essayists, and novelists, many of whom Hazlitt was personally acquainted with or had encountered.

• | Author: William Hazlitt
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 258 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 153749550X
• | ISBN-13: 9781537495507