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David Bromwich is an American literary critic and scholar whose work spans Romanticism, modern poetry, eighteenth-century political thought, liberal education, and democratic culture. He is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University and the author of studies of William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth, Edmund Burke, poetry, higher education, and contemporary American politics. He has also edited major anthologies and critical editions of Romantic and political writing.
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Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic
The author's first major book and a foundational study of his central interests in literary criticism and intellectual biography.

Moral Imagination: Essays
A representative essay collection spanning literary criticism, political thought, and democratic culture.
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence
A major mature work on Burke and the relationship between rhetoric, moral philosophy, and political life.
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Books by series
publisher-series · active
Cambridge English Prose Texts
A Cambridge University Press series of English prose texts and critical editions.
- 1 Romantic Critical EssaysAmazon ↗
Book unknown · edited-collection · 1987
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (3)
Essays and speeches (2)
Edited works (5)
- On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters of Edmund BurkeAmazon ↗
edited-collection · 2000
- On LibertyAmazon ↗
edited-edition · 2003
- American Sonnets: An AnthologyAmazon ↗
edited-anthology · 2007
- Writing Politics: An AnthologyAmazon ↗
edited-anthology · 2020
- Selected Poems by Thomas HardyAmazon ↗
edited-anthology · 2023
Other (5)
- Literature as ExperienceAmazon ↗
textbook · 1979
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Hazlitt: The Mind of a CriticAmazon ↗scholarly-monograph · 1983
- A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert FrostAmazon ↗
scholarly-monograph · 1989
- Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790sAmazon ↗
scholarly-monograph · 1998
- The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American IndependenceAmazon ↗
scholarly-monograph · 2014