David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, where he has taught since 1988. Among his books are Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic (1983), Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s (1998), The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke (2014), and How Words Make Things Happen (2019).
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The Way We Speak Now: On David Bromwich’s “Writing Politics”
The American talent for wordplay can reinvigorate ideas and bring transformative politics....
From the Age of Persuasion to the Age of Offense
A new book about why free speech matters, even when it hurts....
