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The Great Essayists

Wednesday 6 February 2008 23:00-23:15 (Radio 3)

Writer and philosopher AC Grayling continues his exploration of key figures from the glory days of the English essay.

Duration:

15 minutes

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3/4. William Hazlitt was a journalist, critic and radical republican polemicist. He is renowned for the power and beauty of his prose in essays, ranging from a description of Poussin's famous painting of Orion to an evocation of the atmosphere at a bare-knuckle fight on the Hungerford Downs.




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