William Hazlitt is England's greatest essayist. He was also a philosopher, a painter, a controversialist and a radical, whose critical writings about literature, the theatre and art were ardently admired in his day. He is the author of the first confessional autobiography of sexual passion, a biographer of Napoleon, a friend of, and profound influence upon, Keats, Stendhal, and Charles Lamb, a friend and later enemy of Coleridge, Wordsworth, and De Quincy, and a key figure in the intellectual life of Regency England. His life was lived against the backdrop of the French Revolution and subsequent Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with their associated political and literary radicalism in England.
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Anthony Grayling teaches philosophy at Birkbeck College and is a Fellow of St Anne's, Oxford. He reviews regularly in the Financial Times. He has a regular column in Prospect and an occasional column in the Observer.
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I have been an admirer of William Hazlitt for many years and have long hoped for a renewal of his reputation, and this magisterial biography may just do the job. A hard pressed fighter for liberty and truth, disappointed in love, and dying in poverty, he could still say with his last breath: "Well, I've had a happy life." Long after his old "friends" Wordsworth and Coleridge had pusillanimously abandoned their youthful dreams of freedom to take government sinecures, Hazlitt was always there to remind them of their shameful about face. Though the first great art and theatre critic in English, it is above all this strength of character that gives him a right to endure. He is without doubt the finest essayist in our language, and the greatest prose stylist of his age. Read him and stand in awe.
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