William Hazlitt

This 1817 volume of critical essays on Shakespeare's plays brings a fresh psychological perspective to the characters, as well as addressing the dramatic and poetic qualities of the works, placing special value on the great tragedies. The volume is a watershed in Shakespearean criticism, and has deeply influenced generations of scholars and critics.

Originally published in 1846, this American edition of William Hazlitt's early work is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It comprises a collection of portraits of the author's contemporaries, friends and people that he particularly admired. The collection includes poets, authors, politicians and journalists as well as preachers and philosophers. Hazlitt uses razor sharp wit to both celebrate and criticise the subjects of his portraits....

Hazlitt's essays delight with unexpected felicities of thought and expression. Published in 1821-22, this collection shows him at the height of his powers. In such essays as "The Indian Juggler" and "On Good Nature," a personal detail or anecdote serves as the basis for ruminations on life as profound as they are charming.

English essayist William Hazlitt was a respected writer and lecturer on range of literary subjects, from the characters in Shakespeare's plays to the English comic writers to Milton's poetry. This collection of essays, indispensable for students of literature, was drawn from a series of Hazlitt's lectures. Included are William Shakespeare, John Lyly, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, John Webster, John Fletcher, Ben Johnson, Thomas Ford, Philip...

La presente edición posee el mérito excepcional de reunir dos ensayos capitales, el primero, de William Hazlitt (1778-1830), sirve de inspiración al segundo, de Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), a manera de una variación musical; así dos grandes plumas coinciden en un mismo tópico-cada una con su particular interpretación-y lo consagran y convierten para siempre en un tema inmortal: "el arte de caminar".

William Hazlitt is one of the foremost writers of the English language. His fame as a critic, essayist and social commentator ranks with the likes of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He considered his justly famous Life of Napoleon as his most important work. In this, the second volume of the work, William Hazlitt takes us through the history of Napoleon's campaigns in Italy and Egypt. In the course of these campaigns, and in Napoleon's life in Paris...

William Hazlitt is one of the foremost writers of the English language. His fame as a critic, essayist and social commentator ranks with the likes of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He considered his justly famous Life of Napoleon as his most important work. In this, the first volume of the work, William Hazlitt devotes the vast majority of the work to the vital historical background: Napoleon's family, the history of Corsica, where he grew up,...

William Hazlitt is one of the foremost writers of the English language. His fame as a critic, essayist and social commentator ranks with the likes of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He considered his justly famous Life of Napoleon as his most important work. In this, the sixth volume of the work, William Hazlitt takes us through Napoleon's captivity on the island of St. Helena, his decline and his death. Napoleon is no longer involved in the great...

Published in 1897, this autobiography of a bibliophile was praised by The New York Times as "entertaining" and "amusing." Hazlitt's self expression through book collecting shows him to be a man embracing of the flow and change of literature through the fifty years he collected.