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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 ...
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.
When William Hazlitt wrote The Spirit of the Age in 1824, he perceived himself to be dealing with the end of an era. The aspirations to liberty that erupted in the French Revolution had been followed by a generation of war on the Continent, and by a regime of repressive government at home.
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 (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.
1 de ene. de 2007 · The Spirit of the Age: Victorian Essays. Gertrude Himmelfarb. Yale University Press, Jan 1, 2007 - Literary Collections - 327 pages.
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.
