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Who derided Hazlitt as one of the members of the 'Cockney School of Poetry' ?

Correct answer: C. Lockhart

  • A. Tennyson
  • B. Charles Lamb
  • C. Lockhart
  • D. None of These

Explanation

John Gibson Lockhart attacked writers including William Hazlitt in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by labelling them members of the Cockney School. Charles Lamb was associated with the group but was not its principal derider.

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