Author:William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, esteemed as one of the greatest, in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Grandfather of William Carew Hazlitt The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

William Hazlitt

Works

Books

• Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

• Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion[1]
• The Spirit of the Age, or, Contemporary Portraits
• Table Talk
• Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution[2]

Essays

• The Fight
• My First Acquaintance with Poets
• Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen
• On the Pleasure of Hating

Translations

• The Essays of Montaigne, by Michel de Montaigne, edited by O. W. Wight, 1864

Works about Hazlitt

• “Hazlitt, William” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Hazlitt, William,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.