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William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

Duncan Wu

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Oxford University Press
Año de edición:
2008
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Biografía: literaria
ISBN:
9780199549580
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Duncan Wu’s portrait of William Hazlitt - covering Hazlitt’s entire life - reveals one of the greatest journalists in the language, and the principal spokesman of the Romantic age, interacting with every major writer and many other movers and shakers of the era.

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