Keeping to William Hazlitt
That style mattered to Hazlitt cannot be in doubt. ‘An author’s style’ he judged ‘not less a criterion of his understanding than his sentiments’; a test of character, as of sensations and ideas, it bodied forth the perpetually shifting relationships between human beings and the objects of their lov...
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| description | That style mattered to Hazlitt cannot be in doubt. ‘An author’s style’ he judged ‘not less a criterion of his understanding than his sentiments’; a test of character, as of sensations and ideas, it bodied forth the perpetually shifting relationships between human beings and the objects of their love, hatred, and indifference (in Hazlitt, even the absence of feeling is vehemently felt). An author who lacked style therefore lacked sympathetic involvement with other people, the greatest failing imaginable, since ‘Whatever interests, is interesting’. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:eb88e9eb-a6cb-4f28-844e-177142f6ef002022-03-27T11:10:33ZKeeping to William HazlittBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248uuid:eb88e9eb-a6cb-4f28-844e-177142f6ef00Symplectic Elements at OxfordOxford University Press2018Johnston, FHurley, MWaithe, MThat style mattered to Hazlitt cannot be in doubt. ‘An author’s style’ he judged ‘not less a criterion of his understanding than his sentiments’; a test of character, as of sensations and ideas, it bodied forth the perpetually shifting relationships between human beings and the objects of their love, hatred, and indifference (in Hazlitt, even the absence of feeling is vehemently felt). An author who lacked style therefore lacked sympathetic involvement with other people, the greatest failing imaginable, since ‘Whatever interests, is interesting’. |
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