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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.
Spirit of the age by Tom Paulin. A passionate polemicist and radical Romantic, William Hazlitt was the most brilliant essayist of his day. But since his death 170 years ago, he has been largely forgotten. Now, as a monument to Hazlitt is unveiled in Soho, Tom Paulin welcomes a revival of interest in a timeless critic of pomp and power.
The spirit of the age as Hazlitt. saw it was epitomized in "the dastard submission to prejudice and to the fashion of the day" which had eclipsed the reputation of William Godwin.2 Hazlitt's view of English culture in 1824 was largely melancholy and entirely retrospective. Two decades later, in stark contrast, Richard Henry Horne.
8 de sept. de 2017 · William Hazlitt's The Spirit of the Age, published in 1825, began as a journalistic endeavour for the New Monthly Magazine. Entitled ‘Spirits of the Age’, the string of essays was launched with ‘Jeremy Bentham’ in January 1824, ‘Rev. Mr. Irving’ in February, The Late Mr. Home Tooke’ in March, ‘Sir Walter Scott’ in April, and ‘Lord Eldon’ in July.
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a zeitgeist [1] (capitalized in German; German pronunciation: [ˈtsaɪtɡaɪst] ⓘ) ("spirit of the age") is an invisible agent, force, or daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history. [2] The term is usually associated with Georg W. F. Hegel, contrasting with Hegel's use ...
On the eve of the industrial revolution, and anticipating the political revolutions that were to sweep across Europe in 1848, John Stuart Mill wrote "The Spirit of the Age," an essay that sought to distinguish calm periods of continuity from the turbulent age of historic transition into which his world was then entering.
21 de feb. de 2024 · THE. SPIRIT OF THE AGE. OR. CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. "To know another well were to know one's self." LONDON: PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN, new burlington street. 1825.
