William Hazlitt

10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830

An English essayist and critic, and one of the great prose writers of the Romantic age. Trained as a painter, he turned to journalism, lecturing and criticism: Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays (1817), Lectures on the English Poets (1818) and The Spirit of the Age (1825) are classics of criticism, as are the familiar essays of Table-Talk.

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1817

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

Characters of Shakespear's Plays is an 1817 book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary critic William Hazlitt.

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1818

Lectures on the English Poets

This book collects together lectures on English poetry Hazlitt delivered at London’s Surrey Institution in 1818, ranging from ‘On Poetry in General’, through acknowledged classics such as Chaucer, Spenser and…

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