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About William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, as the greatest art critic of his age, and as a drama critic, social commentator, and philosopher. He was also a painter. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is currently little read and mostly out of print. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hazlitt
Political journalist and critic, Hazlitt became the radical conscience of Romanticism. He trained firstly for the Dissenting ministry and then as a portrait painter before a meeting with Coleridge and Wordsworth inspired him to become a writer. He wrote with equal vitality and insight on theatre, boxing, politics, poetry and travel. His major publications include The Character of Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Political Essays (1819) and The Spirit of the Age (1825). He was (unhappily) married twice, suffered unrequited love for a servant girl, and died in poverty while labouring over an immense biography of his hero Napoleon.
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp02110/william-haz...
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William Hazlitt's Timeline
| 1778 |
April 10, 1778
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Maidstone, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1811 |
September 26, 1811
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Wiltshire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1830 |
September 18, 1830
Age 52
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Soho, London, England (United Kingdom)
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Soho (Saint Anne) Church, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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