biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1778–1830)
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| biography:
| Essayist, born in Maidstone, Kent, SE England, UK. The son of a Unitarian minister, he took up painting, but was encouraged by Coleridge to write Principles of Human Action (1805), and further essays followed. In 1812 he found employment in London as a journalist, and also contributed to the Edinburgh Review (1814–20), proving himself to be a deadly controversialist, and a master of epigram, invective, and irony. His best-known essay collections are Table Talk (1821) and The Spirit of the Age (1825). |
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