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Apr. 21st, 2013
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Apr. 21st, 2013 07:11 am"On the Jealousy and Spleen of Party" is so Shelley-haunted it must be out of guilty conscience, since Hazlitt must have known on some level that the very ostracism-through-silence he was facing then was something he'd helped visit on Shelley. Well, a noisy sort of silence, but still. And it's true he defended Shelley (and Byron) in late 1822 in an anonymous polemic, around the time he was pretty much replacing him at The Liberal. But that was during a very brief herding of cat-radicals, and besides the man was dead.
Just crazy how thoroughly his analyses of very specific political changes fit things we've all seen and see. The more absurdly micro-descriptive he gets of contemporary events the more universal he is as a political analyst. Slash righteous ranter. But I say versions of the same things every time I revisit him.
What was the other one I thought unconsciously allusive - "Whether Genius Is Conscious of Its Powers?"? Better go back to that. That was a few years earlier. Can't remember if he'd even attacked him yet, or if most of that went down c. 1824.
Just crazy how thoroughly his analyses of very specific political changes fit things we've all seen and see. The more absurdly micro-descriptive he gets of contemporary events the more universal he is as a political analyst. Slash righteous ranter. But I say versions of the same things every time I revisit him.
What was the other one I thought unconsciously allusive - "Whether Genius Is Conscious of Its Powers?"? Better go back to that. That was a few years earlier. Can't remember if he'd even attacked him yet, or if most of that went down c. 1824.