William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
English essayist and literary critic; author of Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Lectures on the English Poets
(1818), and The Spirit of the Age (1825).
English essayist and literary critic; author of Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Lectures on the English Poets
(1818), and The Spirit of the Age (1825).
“Character of Mr. Wordsworth's New Poem, The Excursion” in
The Examiner.
Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R. A..
An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: being an Argument in favour of the
natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind. To which are added, some Remarks on the
Systems of Hartley and Helvetius.
“A Farewell to Essay-writing” in
London Weekly Review.
Free Thoughts on Public Affairs: or Advice to a Patriot; in a Letter addressed
to a Member of the Old Opposition.
“The Lay of the Laureate” in
The Examiner.
Liber amoris: or the New Pygmalion.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
“Literary Notices 11 [Coleridge]” in
The Examiner.
Literary Remains of the late William Hazlitt: with Notice of his Life.
Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft.
“Mr. Malthus and the Edinburgh Reviewers” in
Cobbett's Political Register.
A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue: for the Use of Schools. In
which the Genius of our Speech is especially attended to and the Discoveries of Mr. Horne
Tooke and other Modern Writers on the Formation of Language are for the first time
incorporated.
“On Coffee-house Politicians” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On Great and Little Things” in
New Monthly Magazine.
“On Paradox and Commonplace” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On Posthumous Fame” in
The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and
Manners.
“On the Conversation of Authors” in
London Magazine.
“On the Pleasures of Hating” in
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
“Proposal for the Basis of a new System of Metaphysical Philosophy” in
Monthly Magazine.
The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and
Manners.
Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England, with a Criticism on
Marriage a-la-mode.
The Spirit of the Age, or, Contemporary Portraits.
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“Wilson's Life and Times of Daniel Defoe” in
Edinburgh Review.
