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William Hazlitt
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English essayist and writer (1778–1830)
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William Hazlitt (1778–1830) was an author whose literary output included *Hazlitt on English literature*, *Characters of Shakspear's plays*, *Table talk*, *Lectures on the English poets and the English comic writers*, and *Essays of William Hazlitt*. His writings have been documented in various databases, with Open Library listing 598 works associated with him. Other sources record different counts, including 23 works from Europeana Sparql and 5 from Crossref.
Hazlitt’s ideas are preserved in quotes such as “We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts” and “You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” His legacy is reflected in digital archives, where he has 16 listeners and 39 playcounts on Last.fm. Additionally, his name appears in 673 other encyclopedia articles according to the Vinony graph.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Europeana Sparql, Wikiquote, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Maidstone
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- translator
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Image
- John Hazlitt Portrait of William Hazlitt.jpg
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- Commons category
- William Hazlitt
- date of birth
- 1778-00-00
- date of death
- 1830-09-18
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- Commons Creator page
- William Hazlitt
- writing language
- English language
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
23 objects attributed to William Hazlitt, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, 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, William Wordsworth, and John Keats.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “William Hazlitt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.