Winterslow
Jonathan Ree describes how a young, still unknown Hazlitt, living a solitary life near the small village of Winterslow, devoted himself to becoming a serious philosophical writer.
Series of talks arguing that William Hazlitt was a committed philosopher as well as a great essayist. Jonathan Ree describes how, while living a solitary life near the small Wiltshire village of Winterslow, the young and as yet unknown Hazlitt devoted himself to the struggle of becoming a serious philosophical writer.
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- Mon 2 Mar 200923:00BBC Radio 3
- Mon 1 Feb 201023:00BBC Radio 3
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