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David Bromwich

David Bromwich teaches English at Yale and is the editor of a selection of Burke’s writings, On Empire, Liberty and Reform.

From the London Review dated 12 December 2002

Between the Raindrops

    Stewart has the weakness of a man who can be wounded. He absorbs many moods: self-pity, cynicism, a compulsion that does not know its name – and always there is a disturbing something left over. It is strange to find such susceptibility in so definite a face. [ read more . . . ]

    Selected bibliography

    • Edmund Burke: An Intellectual Biography (2009)
    • Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry (2001)
    • On Empire, Liberty and Reform: Speeches and Letters by Edmund Burke, edited by David Bromwich (2000)
    • Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s (2000)
    • Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic (1983)

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