Abstract
Essays are back in fashion. The success of literary newspapers, such as the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books, shows that readers welcome discursive, even meandering, meditations on subjects ranging from a novel or a painting to even a strange glance thrown across a crowd. Tom Paulin, poet and essayist, has recently written a book to rehabilitate the reputation of Britain's greatest essayist, William Hazlitt, a radical and a Romantic, who, even when dying in the back room of a Soho rooming-house, committed ink to paper in “The Sick Chamber”, a riveting account of his final illness. Paulin looks for clues to the understanding of Hazlitt's success.
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