Great Cobbett: The Noblest Agitator

By Daniel Green

Book Overview

This trenchant biography provides an illuminating portrait of one of the most attractive and puzzling figures of English letters. A founding father of British radicalism, Cobbett was also a soldier, grammarian, politician, and a dedicated agrarian reformer. Green suggests that central to Cobbett's enigmatic personality was this very arcadiarism: a longing to rescue England from the ravages of social and industrial change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192818651
• ISBN13: 9780192818652
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages