David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University and the author of The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence (2014), Moral Imagination: Essays (2014), Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry (2001), Hazlitt: the Mind of a Critic (1999), Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s (1998), Politics by Other Means (1994), and A Choice of Inheritance (1989). Professor Bromwich is a preeminent cultural critic whose articles appear regularly in the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, and many other publications.
In this session of the 18th- and 19th-Century Colloquium, Professor Bromwich will discuss selections from his recent work on Edmund Burke. Daniel Jump and Angus Ledingham will provide responses.
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