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William Hazlitt. William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, [1] [2] placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.
Apr 6, 2024 · William Hazlitt (born April 10, 1778, Maidstone, Kent, Eng.—died Sept. 18, 1830, Soho, London) was an English writer best known for his humanistic essays. Lacking conscious artistry or literary pretention, his writing is noted for the brilliant intellect it reveals. Hazlitt’s childhood was spent in Ireland and North America, where his ...
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William Hazlitt, (born April 10, 1778, Maidstone, Kent, Eng.—died Sept. 18, 1830, Soho, London), British essayist. He studied for the ministry, but to remedy his poverty he became instead a prolific critic, essayist, and lecturer. He began contributing to journals, notably to The Examiner, and to essay collections, such as The Round Table (1817).
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His father intended him for the Unitarian ministry, and in 1793 sent him to a seminary on what was then the outskirts of London, the New Unitarian College at Hackney (commonly referred to as Hackney College). He stayed there for only about two years, but during that time the young Hazlitt read widely and formed habits of independent thought and res...
In 1798 Hazlitt was introduced to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. He was also interested in art, and visited his brother John, who was now apprenticed to Sir Joshua Reynolds. He became friendly with Charles and Mary Lamb, and in 1808 he married Sarah Stoddart, who was a friend of Mary, and sister of John Stoddart, editor of The Time...
His works having fallen out of print, Hazlitt underwent a small decline, though in the late 1990s his reputation was reasserted by admirers and his works reprinted. Two major works then appeared,The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style by Tom Paulin in 1998 and Quarrel of the Age: the life and times of William Hazlittby A. C. Grayli...
An Essay on the Principles of Human Action(1805)Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth and Characters of Shakespear's Plays(1817)Lectures on the English Poets(1818)Lectures on the English Comic Writers(1819)Baker, Herschel. William Hazlitt. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962. OCLC 23967435Bromwich, David. Hazlitt, the mind of a critic. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN 9780195033434Hazlitt, William. The letters of William Hazlitt. New York: New York University Press, 1978. ISBN 9780814749876Uphaus, Robert W. William Hazlitt. Boston, Mass.: Twayne, 1985. ISBN 9780805769043All links retrieved October 4, 2020. 1. Works by William Hazlitt. Project Gutenberg. 2. Essays by William Hazlitt at Quotidiana.org 3. Hazlitt Society official site
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May 29, 2018 · Learn about the life and writings of William Hazlitt, a 19th-century English literary and social critic. Find out his views on politics, art, literature, and love, and his influence on later writers.
William Hazlitt was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature ...
Republication statement. This article is available for unedited republication, free of charge, using the following credit: “Originally published as "The Critic's Critic: William Hazlitt was observant, difficult, and fascinating" in the Fall 2018 issue of Humanities magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities.”.
