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William Hazlitt

  

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William Hazlitt : Review of The Excursion

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and did not think them nearly so well written as I should have expected from him ... '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Serial / periodical

  

William Hazlitt : 

'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Hazlitt's Essays and Ruskin's The Crown of Wild Olives. Later... he joined the library committee of the Miners' Institute in Maesteg, made friends with the librarian, and advised him on acquisitions. Thus he could read all the books he wanted: Marx, Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Marshall, economic and trade union history, Fabian Essays, Thomas Hardy, Meredith, Kipling and Dickens'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: D.R. Davies      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : [unknown]

'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"... Chaplin could be found in his dressing room studying a Latin-English dictionary, Robert Ingersoll's secularist propaganda, Emerson's "Self- Reliance" ("I felt I had been handed a golden birthright"), Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Twain, Hazlitt, all five volumes of Plutarch's Lives, Plato, Locke, Kant, Freud's "Psychoneurosis", Lafcadio Hearn's "Life and Literature", and Henri Bergson - his essay on laughter, of course... Chaplin also spent forty years reading (if not finishing) the three volumes of "The World as Will and Idea" by Schopenhauer, whose musings on suicide are echoed in Monsieur Verdoux'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : unknown

'English at the moment is super - we are doing the history of drama, and Hazlitt, both most interesting.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : Best of Hazlitt

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : Lectures on the English Poets

'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : A View of the English Stage

'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : Lectures on the English Comic Writers

'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good as either [...] His other works I have not seen'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : 'Standard Novels'

"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri (of which a most delectable account in the Quarterly), Joanne Southcott, &c &c".

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

  

William Hazlitt : Round Table, The: A Collection of Essays

'Read the Round Table'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion

'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous that he could publish such History of his own Weakness, Vice and Gullibility'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : Essays

Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 October 1850:

'The box of books came last night [...] I am now abundantly supplied for a long time. I like Hazlitt's essays much.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Book

  

William Hazlitt : Essays

‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no fiction. Wells’ "Wife of Sir Eric Harman" which I’ve just finished isn’t fiction.’

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Owen      Print: Book

  

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