Selected Letters of Edmund Burke
Selected Letters of Edmund Burke

Author: Edmund Burke

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1984-06

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0226080684

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Edmund Burke (1729-97) was a British statesman, a political philosopher, a literary critic, the grandfather of modern conservatism, and an elegant, prolific letter writer and prose stylist. His most important letters, filled with sparkling prose and profound insights, are gathered here for the first time in one volume. Arranged topically, the letters bring alive Burke's passionate views on such issues as party politics, reform and revolution, British relations with America, India, and Ireland, toleration and religion, and literary and philosophical concerns.

A Vindication of the Rights of Men
A Vindication of the Rights of Men

Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 3849649741

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In 1790 came that "extraordinary outburst of passionate intelligence," Mary Wollstonecraft's reply to Edmund Burke's attack on the principles of the French Revolution entitled a "Vindication of the Rights of Men." In this pamphlet she held up to scorn Burke's defence of monarch and nobility, his merciless sentimentality. "It is one of the most dashing political polemics in the language," Mr. Taylor writes enthusiastically, "and has not had the attention it deserves. . . . For sheer virility and grip of her verbal instruments it is probably the finest of her works. Some of her sentences have the quality of a sword-edge, and they flash with the rapidity of a practised duellist. It was written at a white heat of indignation; yet it is altogether typical of the writer that, in the midst of the work, quite suddenly, she had one of her fits of callousness and morbid temper, and declared she would not go on. With great skill Johnson persuaded her to take it up again; and with equal suddenness her eagerness returned, and the book was finished and published before any one else could answer Burke."

On Empire, Liberty, and Reform
On Empire, Liberty, and Reform

Author: Edmund Burke

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 9780300081473

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The great British statesman Edmund Burke had a genius for political argument, and his impassioned speeches and writings shaped English public life in the second half of the eighteenth century. This anthology of Burke's speeches, letters, and pamphlets, selected, introduced, and annotated by David Bromwich, shows Burke to be concerned with not only preserving but also reforming the British empire. Bromwich includes eighteen works of Burke, all but one in its complete form. These writings, among them the "Speech on Conciliation with the American Colonies," A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, the "Speech at Guildhall Previous to the Election" of 1780, the "Speech on Fox's India Bill," A Letter to a Noble Lord, and several private letters, demonstrate the depth of Burke's efforts to reform the empire in India, America, and Ireland. On these various fronts he defended the human rights of native peoples, the respect owed to partners in trade, and the civil liberties that the empire was losing at home while extending its power abroad.

Revolutionary Writings
Revolutionary Writings

Author: Edmund Burke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-01-23

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 0521843936

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An accessible and annotated edition of Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France with the first Letter on a Regicide Peace.

A Letter to a Noble Lord
A Letter to a Noble Lord

Author: Edmund Burke

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13:

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Irish-British statesman, economist, and philosopher, Edmund Burke wrote this letter when he got stripped of his pension in 1796. He responded by supporting his ideas on government economy and showing how his and other allowances were not conflicting with these ideas. Burke attacked the French Revolution and mentioned how its views endangered the very people after his pension, probably because he was hostile to precisely these ideas. This letter was praised a century and a half after being written as the most significant piece of invective in the English language.