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William Hazlitt
1778-1830

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William Hazlitt was English and lived from 1778-1830. He is best known as an essayist. He was a highly original and individual man, with original ideas on philosophy and a beautiful style.

He is not by far as well-known as he deserves to be, probably because he failed to please and felt pleased to hate too many and too much. This was mostly due to his honesty, courage, and brightness of intellect, and the obvious all-too-human failings of his fellows.

At present, there are just nine of his essays on my site - see the left pane - and these are not annotated fully by me, but I plan to add many more, with my annotations, simply because Hazlitt had a very fine mind and a very beautiful style.

There are some good editions of Hazlitt, but I do not know whether these are in print

  • Selected Essays of William Hazlitt

    Edited by Geoffry Keynes
    First ed. 1930 - London The Nonesuch Press
     
  • Table Talk
    The Plain Speaker
    Lectures on the English Poets and Spirit of the Age
    Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

    All in Everyman's Library
     
  • William Hazlitt - Selected Writings

    Edited by Ronald Blythe
    Penguin Books

Each and all of these give a fine selection of Hazlitt's essays. The first is the longest and the best introduction to Hazlitt, but probably only available in antiquarian bookshops.

There are several biographies by him of which P.P. Howe's, who also edited his collected works, is probably still the best. This also was published by Penguin and also probably is only available in antiquarian bookshops.

 

last update: Dec 17 2008