Romanticism is where the modern age began - and we’re absolutely obsessed with it - hence the fascination with Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, and Lord Byron. Well, Hazlitt was at the centre of it. He knew virtually every major writer of the time, not to mention many politicians, businessmen, architects, and artists. This completely new biography is the first fully-researched biography to cover his entire life, to reveal the way in which Hazlitt not only interacted with the movers and shakers of his era, but interpreted the times for his contemporaries and for us. It might be said that to fully understand the Romantics is to understand ourselves, and where we have come from. Duncan Wu’s new biography reveals its principal spokesman, his virtues and vices intact.