Hazlitt (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Stanley Jones
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1808-1830
- Setting: England
- Principal Characters: William Hazlitt, Sarah Stoddart, Isabella Bridgwater, Sarah Walker, Charles Lamb
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Letters, Biography
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Literature, Class consciousness, Poverty or poor people, Ministry or ministers, England or English people, Criticism
- Locales: England
Stanley Jones has spent twenty-five years on the researches which have culminated in this book. Jones clearly knows more than any other scholar about Hazlitt, his life and times. This book is replete with names, dates, addresses, and footnotes.
The list of principal personages at the head of this article does not begin to do justice to the list of literally hundreds of persons whom Hazlitt knew, with whom he dealt and quarreled, or to whom he was related—and Jones has given us all of them, often in such detail that the anticipated portrait of Hazlitt sometimes emerges only...
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