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I. Background. 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.
8 de sept. de 2017 · William Hazlitt's The Spirit of the Age, published in 1825, began as a journalistic endeavour for the New Monthly Magazine. Entitled ‘Spirits of the Age’, the string of essays was launched with ‘Jeremy Bentham’ in January 1824, ‘Rev. Mr. Irving’ in February, The Late Mr. Home Tooke’ in March, ‘Sir Walter Scott’ in April, and ‘Lord Eldon’ in July.
Henry Hazlitt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He was a collateral descendant of the British essayist William Hazlitt, but grew up in relative poverty, his father having died when Hazlitt was an infant.
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery. (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.
5 de abr. de 2003 · 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 ...
William Hazlitt, a distinguished literary figure of the early nineteenth century and a forerunner of psychoanalytic insights, had a keen awareness of the impact of the imagination on assessing works of art. At forty-two, he became hopelessly involved in an obsessive love affair with a nineteen-year-old woman and could not extricate himself from ...
William Hazlitt met Isabella Bridgwater in 1823, and she would become his second wife. In September 1824 they took off on an extended tour of Europe for 12 months, during which time Hazlitt continued to write. In 1828, William Hazlitt began a biography of Napoleon.
