The Critical Essays of William Hazlitt (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Hazlitt
- First Published: 1817
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Criticism, Drama or dramatists, Romanticism, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
Critical Evaluation:
There were two pre-eminent literary critics in the second decade of the nineteenth century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt. While the former developed his critical principles in his early philosophical studies and in a decade of splendid poetic creation, the latter had no such period of creativity to look back on when he began his career as journalist-critic in 1813, at the age of thirty-six. His early life was a series of failures. Neither his earnest attempts to become a portraitist nor equally earnest attempts to make a reputation as a...
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