About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 85. Chapters: Delia Bacon, Howard Staunton, William Hazlitt, Edmond Malone, George Lyman Kittredge, David Bevington, A. L. Rowse, Bryan Reynolds, Stephen Greenblatt, Donald Wayne Foster, Eric Partridge, Kenneth Burke, Clement Mansfield Ingleby, John Payne Collier, Martin Lings, Christmas Humphreys, Hermann Ulrici, Patrick Glynn, Horace Howard Furness, Joseph Pearce, Jonathan Bate, Richard Grant White, Richard Farmer, Gary Taylor, Clara Longworth de Chambrun, Edward Dowden, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, A. C. Bradley, M. C. Bradbrook, Lewis Theobald, James S. Shapiro, Stephen Booth, Paul N. Siegel, John Leslie Hotson, James Halliwell-Phillipps, Eric Sams, E. K. Chambers, J. Dover Wilson, W. W. Greg, George Steevens, Henry Clay Folger, Frederick Gard Fleay, Gerit Quealy, James Spedding, Israel Gollancz, Marjorie Garber, Charles William Wallace, Charles Cowden Clarke, Alfred W. Pollard, G. Wilson Knight, Alexander Dyce, Charles Talbut Onions, Edward Capell, Anthony Nuttall, William George Clark, Sidney Lee, Alfred Harbage, John McCabe, Joseph Quincy Adams, Jr., Stanley Wells, Thomas Lounsbury, Marco Mincoff, William James Rolfe, Samuel Schoenbaum, Karl Elze, Alexandre Beljame, Thomas Rice Henn, Stephen Orgel, Thomas Middleton Raysor, Barbara Everett, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Bernard Beckerman. Excerpt: William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 - 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet 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 Coleridg...
