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The son of an Irish Unitarian minister, William Hazlitt was born on April 10, 1778 in Maidstone, England. As a young man, Hazlitt studied for the ministry at Hackney College in London, but eventually realized that he wasn't committed to becoming a minister, so he began a career as a writer, an occupation he would follow for the rest of his life.
Republication statement. This article is available for unedited republication, free of charge, using the following credit: “Originally published as "The Critic's Critic: William Hazlitt was observant, difficult, and fascinating" in the Fall 2018 issue of Humanities magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities.”.
The first edition (here reprinted) was published in 1819 in one 8vo. volume (343 pp.), with the following title-page:—‘Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Delivered at the Surry Institution. By William Hazlitt. “It is a very good office one man does another, when he tells him the manner of his being pleased.” Steele.
4 de ene. de 2009 · M ore than other figure in English literary history, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) demolishes the distinction between creative artist and critical commentator. He was the exemplary critic as artist ...
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).
Hace 4 días · William Hazlitt 1778–1830English essayist. Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality. 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. Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
1 de jun. de 2015 · 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 ...
