Talk:Table-Talk

Hazlitt's Masterpiece
Yes, Wu does say that this work combined with The Plain Speaker constitutes "the pinnacle of his achievement". But in the same book, he calls The Spirit of the Age "Hazlitt's masterpiece" (p. 360). Wu's editors really should have caught this inconsistency and worked with him to reconcile the conflicting statements. At this time I'm just making note of this here. --Alan W (talk) 22:42, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmmm, that is indeed a bit of a contradiction -- but then he does have high praise for almost all of Hazlitt's works published after 1817, so I can see how it slipped through. I suppose the issue is whether we want our two articles on Table-Talk and The Spirit of the Age to reproduce the contradiction by reporting Wu's comments. I would happily change the wording here to something like "Duncan Wu has praised Table-Talk as one of Hazlitt's greatest works". Celuici (talk) 20:14, 12 September 2012 (UTC)