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Poetry is the language of the imagination and the passions. It relates to whatever gives immediate pleasure or pain to the human mind. It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape, can be a subject for poetry.
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By William Hazlitt. Portrait of William Hazlitt from an 1825 sketch by William Bewick. Introduction. It would not be an exaggeration to call William Hazlitt, poet, painter, historian, and critic a renaissance man.
Jan 31, 2010 · WILLIAM HAZLITT I. Hazlitt characterized the age he lived in as “critical, didactic, paradoxical, romantic.” It was the age of the Edinburgh Review, of the Utilitarians, of Godwin and Shelley, of Wordsworth and Byron—in a word of the French Revolution and all that it brought in its train. Poetry in this age was impregnated with politics ...
Title: The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 7 (of 12) Author: William Hazlitt Editor: A. R. Waller Arnold Glover Other: W. E. Henley Release Date: December 4, 2018 [EBook #58408] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT *** Produced by Richard Tonsing and the ...
Mar 15, 2021 · Behind the half-title appears the following advertisement: ‘This day is published, Characters of Shakespear’s Plays, by William Hazlitt. Second Edition, 8vo. price 10s. 6d. boards.’ A four-page advertisement of ‘Books just published by Taylor and Hessey’ ends the volume, with ‘Characters of Shakspeare’s Plays’ at the top, and a ...
Apr 3, 2013 · Addeddate 2013-04-03 12:40:18 Associated-names Shelly, Percy Van Dyke, 1883-1943 Call number PR4772.E72 S25 1924 Camera
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Jul 24, 2019 · Lectures on the English poets. A view of the English stage. -- v.6. Lectures on the English comic writers. Lectures on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth. -- v.7. Political essays, with sketches of public characters. -- v.8.Table-talk. -- v.9. A reply to 'Z'. A letter to William Gifford esq. Prefatory remarks to Oxberry's New ...
