William Hazlitt's 1825 publication The Spirit of the Age contains some strikingly timely warnings about fake news and abuse of power.
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Hazlitt got gloomily drunk for a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, accurately anticipating that decades of reaction lay ahead.
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If this workmanlike biography, by the editor of the two-volume New Writings of William Hazlitt, does not live up to the expansive promise of its subtitle,...
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A passionate polemicist and radical Romantic, William Hazlitt was the most brilliant essayist of his day. But since his death 170 years ago, he has been...
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Hazlitt acknowledges the value of 'physical analogy' and praises thinkers who can find ways of 'incorporating the abstract with the concrete'.
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There is something secretly repellent in the prospect of an author recommended for his prose style (and nothing else).
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“Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn, and laughter.”
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Hazlitt was probably the first critic to think hard about prose and the first to recognize that prose, no less than poetry, reflected a fundamental world view.
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The 19th-century radical was a scathingly brilliant writer, thinker and art critic – so why is he so little read today, asks Alastair Smart?
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Shakespeare found enough in Henry's sketchy history to create Falstaff and Prince Hal, later Henry of Monmouth, the warrior king.
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