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| Naixement | 10 abril 1778  Maidstone (Regne de la Gran Bretanya) | ||
| Mort | 18 setembre 1830 (52 anys) Londres | ||
| Residència | Hazlitt House (en)  | ||
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| Camp de treball | Filosofia | ||
| Ocupació | historiador de la literatura, periodista, pintor, crític literari, filòsof, escriptor, traductor | ||
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| Cònjuge | Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt (1808–1822) | ||
| Fills | unknown Hazlitt, William Hazlitt | ||
| Pares | William Hazlitt i Sarah Loftus | ||
| Germans | John Hazlitt | ||
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William Hazlitt (Maidstone, 10 d'abril de 1778 - Londres, 18 de setembre de 1830) va ser un assagista, crític dramàtic i literari, pintor, comentarista social i filòsof anglès. Ara és considerat un dels principals crítics i assagistes de la història de la llengua anglesa. en companyia de Samuel Johnson i George Orwell.[1][2][3][4] També és reconegut com el millor crític d'art de la seva època.[5] Tot i la seva alta posició entre els historiadors de la literatura i de l'art, el seu treball és poc llegit i principalment fora de catàleg.[6][7]
Durant la seva vida, va fer amistat amb moltes persones que ara formen part del cànon literari del segle xix, incloent Charles i Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, i John Keats.[8]
- ↑ "A master of English prose style, a beautifully modulated general essayist, the first great theatre critic in English, the first great art critic, a magnificent political journalist and polemicist... Hazlitt is both a philosopher and one of the supreme literary critics in the language." Paulin, "Spirit".
- ↑ Jacques Barzun praises Lionel Trilling as just behind Hazlitt, implying that Hazlitt, ahead of Coleridge, Bagehot, and Arnold as well, is in the top rank of English-language literary critics. Quoted in Philip French, Three Honest Men: Edmund Wilson, F.R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling (Manchester, U.K.: Carcanet Press, 1980), cited in Rodden, Trilling, p. 3.
- ↑ "...in the tradition of the English essay, descended from Johnson, Lamb, Hazlitt, and Orwell", Hitchens on Display, by George Packer, in The New Yorker, 3 juliol 2008
- ↑ Irving Howe considered Orwell "the best English essayist since Hazlitt, perhaps since Dr Johnson". "George Orwell: 'As the bones know' ", by Irving Howe, Harper's Magazine, gener 1969.
- ↑ A.C. Grayling notes that Kenneth Clark "described Hazlitt as the 'best critic of art before Ruskin'." Grayling, p. 380. See also Bromwich, p. 20.
- ↑ "Most of Hazlitt's work is out of print, or unavailable in paperback. He is not studied in most university English courses...", Paulin, "Spirit".
- ↑ "Both Deane and Heaney had studied Hazlitt at school in Derry in the 1950s – he'd been replaced by Orwell when I took the same A-level course in the 60s, and the diminution of his reputation has been fairly steady until recently." Paulin, "Spirit".
- ↑ Grayling, pp. 209–10.