William Hazlitt
John Keats’s poetry was inspired by the classical world, as experienced through translation and popular dictionaries of myth; but as this book shows, it was also closely connected to the literary culture of its time.
William Hazlitt was a painter, journalist, essayist and, through books such as The Spirit of the Age (1824), a literary portraitist of the great thinkers of the day. Keats thought that Wordsworth’s The
...Liber Amoris, or, The New Pygmalion is a recording of William Hazlitt's recording of the course of his love in a thinly disguised fictional account, published anonymously in May 1823. (Enough clues were present so that the identity of the writer did not remain hidden for long.)
Critics have been divided as to the literary merits of Liber Amoris, a deeply personal account of frustrated love that is quite unlike
...Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays / William Hazlitt
"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. Composed in reaction to the neoclassical approach to Shakespeare's plays typified by Samuel Johnson, it was among the first English-language studies of Shakespeare's plays to follow
...Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners / William Hazlitt
"Table-Talk is a collection of essays by the English cultural critic and social commentator William Hazlitt. It was originally published as two volumes, the first of which appeared in April 1821. The essays deal with topics such as art, literature and philosophy. Duncan Wu has described the essays as the "pinnacle of [Hazlitt's] achievement", and argues that
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