Title: A review of the actual book
Review: Hazlitt is one of the greatest writers of English prose. The Plain Speaker is an essential book and Blackwells have done our culture a service by re-issuing it.Duncan Wu is a highly-regarded scholar of romanticism. Therefore one can totally rely on the integrity of the text.Tom Paulin is a foremost authority on Hazlitt and his book The Day-Star of Liberty is also, incidentally, one of the most stimulating books on Edmund Burke of recent times.Hazlitt's work, sadly, has become obscure even to well-educated readers. It is most regrettable that a 'reviewer' abuses this public platform to mug this fine edition because he is angry at Paulin's intemperate views on Israel. Giving a one-star rating to a great work by one of the finest writers in world literature is surely an inappropriate response.
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