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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 ...
4 days ago · At the zenith of his popularity, Hazlitt recalled, Godwin ‘blazed as a sun in the firmament of reputation; no one was more talked of, more looked up to, more sought after; and wherever liberty, truth, justice was the theme, his name was not far off’ (Hazlitt, 1825 [1971]: 31).
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.”
1 day ago · William Hazlitt, a prominent essayist and critic of the Romantic era, articulates his profound appreciation for reading old books in his essay titled “On Reading Old Books.”. He contrasts the familiar comfort of revisiting established literary works with the uncertainty and potential disappointment of exploring new ones.
4 days ago · And many more books with titles that refer in some way to the spirit of the times: "Surfing the Zeitgeist" by Gilbert Adair, "The Spirit of the Age" by William Hazlitt, the two-volume "L’Esprit du temps" by Edgar Morin and "Geist der Zeit" by Ernst Moritz Arndt, published in 1806.
4 days ago · William Hazlitt (1778–1830) - English essayist, journalist, and critic, Hazlitt began his literary career as a "metaphysician," and the principles of his youthful philosophical writing survived to govern his thought during the years when a more brilliant prose style won him fame.
22 hours ago · Hazlitt, though thinking of the perpetuation of fame in his essay, rather than this legend, somehow captures the everlasting drama of the two celestial lovers: A name ‘fast-anchored in the deep abyss of time’ is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the ...
