Liber Amoris (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: William Hazlitt
- First Published: 1823
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Autobiographical
- Time of Work: 1820-1822
- Setting: London and Scotland
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Letters
- Subjects: Love or romance, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, England or English people, Imagination, London, Scotland or Scottish people, Life, philosophy of, Great Britain
- Locales: London, England, Scotland
Characters Discussed
H. (William Hazlitt), a writer and lover. The author is writing an account of his own foolish passion for a young girl, S. (Sarah Walker), whom he meets in a boardinghouse owned by her father, M.W. (Micaiah Walker). Aware, in his heart, that the girl allows him more liberties than her show of demureness would justify, he is nevertheless romantic enough to endow her with an innocence and good intent that cause him to keep trying to persuade her to marry him. As he inevitably must, he finally learns that reality and one’s own image of it are not necessarily...
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