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The Library of Conservative Thought Victor A. Kravchenko, I Chose Freedom with a new introduction by Rett R. Ludwikowski 1988. ISBN: 0-88738-754-3 Victor A. Kravchenko, I Chose Justice with a new introduction by Ludmilla Thorne. 1988. ISBN: 0-88738-756-X William Hurrell Mallock, A Critical Examination of Socialism with a new introduction by Russell Kirk. 1988. ISBN: 0-88738-264-9 Kenneth Shorey, ed., John Randolph and John Brockenbrough: Their Correspondence with a new foreword by Russell Kirk. 1988. ISBN: 0-88738-194-4 George Scott-Moncrieff, Burke Street with a new introduction by Russell Kirk. 1989. ISBN: 0-88738-250-9 John J. Stanlis, Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution with a new introduction by Russell Kirk. 1990. ISBN: 0-88738-359-9 Orestes Brownson, Selected Political Essays with a new introduction by Russell Kirk. 1990. ISBN: 0-88738-825-6 Dan E. Ritchie, Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications. 1990. ISBN: 0-88738-328-9 Francis Graham Wilson, The Case For Conservatism with a new intro- duction by Russell Kirk. 1990. ISBN: 0-88738-322-X First paperback printing 2016. Copyright © 1990 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photo- copy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Transaction Publishers, 10 Corporate Place South, Suite 102, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854. www.transactionpub.com This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Library of Congress Catalog Number: 89-28010 ISBN: 0-88738-328-9 (cloth); 978-1-4128-6292-9 (paper) eBook: 978-1-4128-2219-0 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications/edited by Daniel E. Ritchie. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-88738-328-9 1. Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797—Contributions in political science. 2. Burke, Edmund, 1729–1797—Language. I. Ritchie, Daniel E., JCI76.B83C75 1990 89-28010 320.5’2’092—dc20 CIP Dedicated to the generation of Burke scholars who revived and redirected our knowledge of Edmund Burke after World War II Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following copyright holders for permission to use their work: Matthew Arnold: Lectures and Essays in Criticism. Vol. 3 of The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, edited by R. H. Super. Copyright © 1962 by the University of Michigan Press. “Burke and the Moral Imagination,” by Irving Babbitt. Copyright © 1924 by Irving Babbitt. Copyright © 1952 by Esther Babbitt Howe. Reprinted from Democracy and Leadership by permission of the National Humanities Institute, Washington, D.C. The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot, edited by Norman St. John- Stevas, Vol. 1, Literary Essays. Copyright © 1965 by The Economist, London. Walter Jackson Bate, “Introduction” to Edmund Burke: Selected Works. Copyright © 1960 by Random House, Inc. “Reconsideration: Edmund Burke,” by Alexander Bickel. Reprinted by permission of The New Republic. Copyright © 1973 by The New Republic, Inc. “Burke and the Fall of Language,” by Steven Blakemore. Reprinted by permission of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Edmund Burke: Prescription and Providence by Francis Canavan. Copyright © 1987 by Francis Canavan. Published by Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C. Edmund Burke: The Practical Imagination, by Gerald W. Chapman. Published by Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1967 by the Pres- ident and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by permission. The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer, Bollingen Series 75. Vol. 4: The Friend, edited by Barbara E. Rooke, Copyright © 1969 by Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd. Excerpts reprinted with permission of Princeton University Press, Vol. 7: Biographia Literaria, parts I and II, Copyright © 1983 by Princeton University Press and Routledge & Kegan Paul. Reprinted by permission. Conor Cruise O’Brien, “Introduction” to Reflections on the Revolution in France, Introduction Copyright © 1968 Penguin Books Ltd. Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, edited by David Masson, published by A. & C. Black. The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, edited by P. P. Howe. Copy- right © 1934 by J. M. Dent—Everyman’s Library. “A Revolution Not Made, But Prevented,” by Russell Kirk. Copyright © 1985 by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Reprinted from Modern Age by permission of the publisher. Statesmanship and Party Government: A Study of Burke and Boling- broke, by Harvey Mansfield. Copyright © 1965 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Conservatism by Robert Nisbet. Copyright © 1986 by Open Uni- versity Press. Edmund Burke and the Practice of Political Writing by Christopher Reid, Copyright © 1985 by St. Martin’s Press, and Gill and Macmillan Ltd. Reprinted by permission. Edmund Burke and the Natural Law by Peter Stanlis. Copyright © 1958 by The University of Michigan Press. Copyright © 1985 by Peter Stanlis. Reprinted by permission of Peter Stanlis. “Burke’s Conservative Revolution,” by George Watson. Copyright © 1984. Reprinted by permission of George Watson and Critical Quarterly. Culture and Society, by Raymond Williams. Copyright © 1980 by Columbia University Press and Chatto & Windus. Reprinted by per- mission of the Estate of Raymond Williams. Contents Foreword xi Acknowledgements xv Introduction xvii Important Dates in the Life of Edmund Burke xxvii Short Titles xxxi Part One. Burke and the Literary Imagination 1 Coleridge’s Fragments on Burke, 3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2 Hazlitt’s Criticism of Burke, William Hazlitt 7 3 Rhetoric, Thomas De Quincey 17 4 Macaulay’s Comments on Burke, 21 Thomas Babington Macaulay 5 Mr. Macaulay, Walter Bagehot 27 6 The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, 29 Matthew Arnold 7 Burke and the Sense of Process, Walter Jackson Bate 33 8 Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event, Steven Blakemore 37 9 The Politics of Taste, Christopher Reid 61 Part Two. Burke and Revolution 10 Burke’s Conservative Revolution, George Watson 79 11 A Revolution Not Made, but Prevented, Russell Kirk 95

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"The eighteenth century remains contemporary more than 200 years later because the fundamental questions raised then about politics in both the American and French Revolutions still speak to us. The writings of Edmund Burke on these and other political events of his time are today acknowledged as th
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