The Familiar Essays of William Hazlitt (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Hazlitt
- First Published: 1817
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Human behavior, Boxing, Romanticism
Critical Evaluation:
William Hazlitt came to be regarded as one of the nineteenth century’s most gifted essayists, but he did not arrive at this mode of expression by any systematic or logical process. As George Bernard Shaw came to writing drama only after long experience as a musical and dramatic critic and a novelist, Hazlitt discovered his true vocation only at the age of thirty-five, and only after years of trying, in turn, to become a painter, a political writer, and a philosopher. He had talent as a painter, as his portrait of Charles Lamb in the National Gallery...
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