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Title: On Poetry in General
Author: William Hazlitt
Narrator: Jim Roberts
Format: Unabridged
Length: 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-18-09
Publisher: Jimcin Recordings
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
William Hazlitt was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. He is considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in English and is placed by literary historians in the same company as Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. This essay is considered by most critics to be the best short explanation of the nature and importance of poetry evey written.
(P)2009 Jimcin Recordings
Editorial Reviews:
"Man is a poetical animal," declares William Hazlitt at the outset of his seminal essay, "On Poetry in General". Hazlitt, a revered and prolific essayist and painter in the high Romantic style, believed poetry to be both an imitation of nature and "all that is worth remembering in life". As performed by Jim Roberts in a lilting New England accent, "On Poetry in General" is one of the most acclaimed and enduring pieces of literary thought ever written. It is to poetry what Aristotles Poetics is to drama.
"On Poetry in General" is a paean to poetrys humility and to its universal employment by all mankind. Filled with startling analogies and lovely bursts of rhetoric, this brief essay is a prime example of prose poetry itself.
