In 'My First Acquaintance with Poets', whom does Hazlitt call 'the only person I ever knew who answered to the idea of a man of genius'?
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Correct answer: A. Coleridge
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Hazlitt on Coleridge, whom he heard preach at Shrewsbury in 1798.
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