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 got gloomily drunk for a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, accurately anticipating that decades of reaction lay ahead.
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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 former Labour leader Michael Foot unveiled a restored, 216-word inscription, one of the longest in church history,on the restored grave in St Anne's...
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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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The hedonism of reading good books makes its mark on the meaning of a life, infusing it with a richness that can be had at no dearer a price than that of a...
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William Hazlitt, for his superb writing and vigorous and honest thought. His range of topics – philosophy, art, theatre, politics, life – is consistently...
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