The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American IndependenceDavid Bromwich's portrait of statesman Edmund Burke (1730 1797) is the first biography to attend to the complexity of Burke's thought as it emerges in both the major writings and private correspondence. The public and private writings cannot be easily dissociated, nor should they be. For Burke a thinker, writer, and politician the principles of politics were merely those of morality enlarged. Bromwich reads Burke's career as an imperfect attempt to