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Who among the following was not a contemporary of William Hazlitt?

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Stendhal

  • John Keats

Answer

Mikhail Gorbachev was not a contemporary of William Hazlitt because he was born in 1931, 130 years after Hazlitt died in 1830. Gorbachev was a Russian politician who was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. He was instrumental in the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
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