No Theatricks
Ferdinand Mount: Burke, 21 August 2014
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: from the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
by David Bromwich.
Harvard, 500 pp., £25, May 2014,978 0 674 72970 4 Show More
by David Bromwich.
Harvard, 500 pp., £25, May 2014,
Moral Imagination: Essays
by David Bromwich.
Princeton, 350 pp., £19.95, March 2014,978 0 691 16141 9 Show More
by David Bromwich.
Princeton, 350 pp., £19.95, March 2014,
“... meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. More off-putting still is the thought that the arguments in defence of party might be deployed in the service of any party. Even Bromwich seems to lose his cool for a moment when he declares that ‘no serious historian today would ... ”
