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FeaturesFebruary 2000 Hazlitt & Wordsworth: the language of poetry On Hazlitt's adversarial relationship with Wordsworth. The language of poetry naturally falls in with the language of power. William Hazlitt (1778–1830) was a democrat in his youth, along with Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, his contemporaries in England’s first Romantic generation. Unlike them he was a democrat still when he died. He stood on the side of “the people and … the people’s rights,” he said in the preface to his Political Essays (1819), “against those who say they have no rights, that they are the property, the goods, the chattels, the livestock on the estate of Legitimacy.” Hazlitt defended the revolution in France not only in its early constitutional phase, which most Englishmen did, but also in its Jacobin and Napoleonic phases, during the long period of Britain’s war with France and the fearful Tory reaction ...
Subscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 18 February 2000, on page 10 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Hazlitt---Wordsworth--the-language-of-poetry-2715
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