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Abstract. Over the course of a literary career that extended from the lingering Malthusian controversies of the late eighteenth century to the brink of the Reform Act of 1832, William Hazlitt produced a remarkable body of committed radical journalism. Against the view that partisan passion undermined his aesthetic judgment and compromised his ...
William Hazlitt was born on April 10, 1778 in Kent, England. He grew up traveling around in Ireland and Northern America because his father who was a traveling preacher and big supporter of the American rebels. He was a rather lonely child who could always be found reading or writing.
A passionate polemicist and radical Romantic, William Hazlitt was the most brilliant essayist of his day. But since his death 170 years ago, he has been largely forgotten. Now, as a monument to Hazlitt is unveiled in Soho, Tom Paulin welcomes a revival of interest in a timeless critic of pomp and power. "He was the fearless, the eloquent, and ...
139 REVIEWS WILLIAM HAZLITT: RADICAL VOICE FROM HIGH ROMANTICISM TAe Letters of William Hazlitt, ed. Herschel M. Sikes, W. H. Bonner, and Gerald Lahey. NYU Press, 1978. 399pp. $8.50 paper. John Kinnaird. William Hazlitt: Critic ofPower. Columbia University Press, 1978. 429pp. $22.50. In the Everyman's Library, this biographical summary prefaces ...
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). ). His lecture courses were published as On ...
29 de ene. de 2024 · William Hazlitt. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. William Hazlitt ( 10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism.
Search for: 'William Hazlitt' in Oxford Reference ». (b Maidstone, Kent, 10 Apr. 1778; d London, 18 Sept. 1830).English critic. He is known mainly for his literary criticism, but he also wrote much on the fine arts and he ranks as the most important British writer on the subject between Reynolds and Ruskin. Early in his career he worked ...
