William Hazlitt

by R.L. Brett

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was an essayist, critic, painter, and philosopher. In this 1977 study, R. L. Brett draws attention at the outset to the biographical standpoint which Hazlitt always adopts in his writings on literature and the arts, and recalls that Hazlitt considered the essay form as 'ideally fitted to approach life with a method that is concrete and particular, rather than a priori and theoretical'.

A volume in the Writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582012651
• ISBN13: 9780582012653
• Release Date: March 1978
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 40 Pages