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Jun 28, 2024 · William Hazlitt (1778–1830) was an English writer best known for his humanistic essays. He was a major figure of the Romantic movement, a religious skeptic, and a political radical.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
4 days ago · Hazlitt has had a fair amount of modern critical attention, but not enough of it has been concerned with rescuing him from the drab category of ‘minor Regency prose’ and establishing him where he belongs, as one of the most extraordinarily intelligent writers of his period. Perhaps the ...
Jun 27, 2024 · Characters of Shakespear's Plays is an 1817 book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary critic William Hazlitt.
- William Hazlitt
- 1817
22 hours ago · William Hazlitt’s “On Criticism” (1812), James’s “Criticism” (1899), and Marcel Proust’s “John Ruskin” (1906) represent the high points of this tradition, although its origin is surely Alexander Pope’s 1711 “An Essay on Criticism,” which hails the critic as “the Muse’s judge and friend.”
Jun 9, 2024 · “The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard,” declared the early 19th-century essayist William Hazlitt in his On the Conversation of Authors, published in 1820....
4 days ago · King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is loosely based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between his daughters Goneril and Regan, who pay homage to gain favour, feigning love.
Jun 29, 2024 · Singapore Statutes Online is provided by the Legislation Division of the Singapore Attorney-General's Chambers
