The Familiar Essays of William Hazlitt Critical Essays.
William Hazlitt was born on April 10, 1778, and died a hundred years ago on September 18, 1830. His father, the Rev. William Hazlitt, was a Unitarian minister, who in 1778 had been preaching for eight years at the Chapel in Maidstone.
It would not be an exaggeration to call William Hazlitt, poet, painter, historian, and critic a renaissance man. By fifty-two, Hazlitt had exhibited a painting of his father at the Royal Academy, written and published a history of Napoleon, and had befriended some of the most important poets of his time: Coleridge, Wordsworth and Shelley.
William Hazlitt frankly declared his critical writings to be nothing other than the expression of his feeling for literature. Rejecting the use of some abstract theory to serve as an a priori criterion for literature, Hazlitt posited that truly expressed feeling, if the latter was of sufficient intensity, would supply its own intuitive standard.
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. When he got.
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.
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was a prolific journalist, parliamentary reporter, dramatic and literary critic, essayist and lecturer. He was the one of the first English writers to make a profession of descriptive criticism. Tom Paulin is a poet and teaches English at Hertford College, Oxford.
Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters is a collection of essays by William Hazlitt, an English political journalist and cultural critic.Published in 1819, two days before the Peterloo Massacre, the work spans the final years of the Napoleonic Wars and the social and economic strife that followed. Included are attacks on monarchy, defences of Napoleon, and critical essays on.