English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1140 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Romantic Essayists: Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey
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The idea
Three essayists defined Romantic prose. Charles Lamb wrote the Essays of Elia and, with his sister Mary, Tales from Shakespeare. William Hazlitt, critic and essayist, portrayed his contemporaries in The Spirit of the Age. Thomas De Quincey wrote Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.
In practice
Elia, the Age, the Opium-Eater.
Where people slip
Unit thirteen covers each essayist.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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