David Bromwich is a scholar of British and American romanticism. He is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, where he has taught since 1988. Among his books are Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic, Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s, and The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke.

• Preface 1: Does Persuasion Occur? (Austin, Aristotle, Cicero) 2: Speakers Who Convince Themselves (Shakespeare, Milton, James) 3: Pledging Emotion for Conviction (Burke, Lincoln, Bagehot) 4: Persuasion and Responsibility (Yeats, Auden, Orwell) 5: What Should We Be Allowed to Say? (Rushdie, Mill, Savio)

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David Bromwich is a scholar of British and American romanticism. He is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, where he has taught since 1988. Among his books are Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic, Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s, and The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke.

• Preface 1: Does Persuasion Occur? (Austin, Aristotle, Cicero) 2: Speakers Who Convince Themselves (Shakespeare, Milton, James) 3: Pledging Emotion for Conviction (Burke, Lincoln, Bagehot) 4: Persuasion and Responsibility (Yeats, Auden, Orwell) 5: What Should We Be Allowed to Say? (Rushdie, Mill, Savio)

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David Bromwich is a scholar of British and American romanticism. He is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, where he has taught since 1988. Among his books are Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic, Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s, and The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke.

• Preface 1: Does Persuasion Occur? (Austin, Aristotle, Cicero) 2: Speakers Who Convince Themselves (Shakespeare, Milton, James) 3: Pledging Emotion for Conviction (Burke, Lincoln, Bagehot) 4: Persuasion and Responsibility (Yeats, Auden, Orwell) 5: What Should We Be Allowed to Say? (Rushdie, Mill, Savio)

Highly recommended