Biography William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
English writer
Was born on 10 apr 1778.
Died on 18 sep 1830, at 52 years old.
Origin country United Kingdom
Quotes by William HazlittEnglish writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. 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, but 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 and William Wordsworth.