Duncan Wu

Duncan Wu is a Raymond A. Wagner Professor in Literary Studies at Georgetown University. He is an acknowledged authority on Romanticism and the world's leading authority on the life and work of William Hazlitt. He is the author of twenty-two books, including the widely used textbook Romanticism: An Anthology (Blackwell, now in its third edition); Hazlitt: The First Modern Man; The New Writings of William Hazlitt; and Wordsworth's Poets. Dog-eared: Poems About Humanity’s Best Friend was published by Basic Books in 2020, and his poetry collection Origin Myths was published in 2024. He lives in McLean, Virginia.