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William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher.
A memorial for Hazlitt by AC Grayling. He is one of England's greatest writers and radicals but his body lies in an obscure grave in Soho. Now, 170 years after his death, there are plans to replace his lost headstone.
William Hazlitt (10 de abril de 1778 – 18 de septiembre de 1830) fue un escritor inglés célebre por sus ensayos humanísticos y por sus críticas literarias. Se le ha considerado como el crítico literario inglés más importante tras Samuel Johnson.
Died: Sept. 18, 1830, Soho, London (aged 52) 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In the summer of 1830, William Hazlitt lay dying in a small upstairs bedroom at the back of a cheap Soho lodging-house. His first wife Sarah Stoddart, his son William, Charles Lamb and various friends visited him there, as stomach cancer slowly tortured him.
William Hazlitt was born on April 10, 1778, at Maidstone, Kent, England and died on Sept. 18, 1830, in Soho, London. He was the son of a Unitarian minister and his mother, Grace Loftus belonged to Wisbech.
essays, Hazlitt attacked liberal political philosophy as urgent and death less fearsome. On the one hand, religion "abstraction" that equates morality with self-serving may hold out the prospect of life after death.
