Hazlitt: 66 books

William Hazlitt's tough, combative writings on subjects ranging from slavery to the imagination, boxing matches to the monarchy, established him as one of the greatest radicals of his age and have inspired journalists and political satirists ever since.

William Hazlitt was an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. 

Contents: 1. The Defense Of Poesy, by Sir Philip Sidney 2. On Shakespeare and On Bacon, by Ben Jonson 3. Of Agriculture, by Abraham Cowley 4. The Vision Of Mirza and Westminster Abbey, by Joseph Addison 5. The Spectator Club, by Sir Richard Steele 6. Hints Towards An Essay On Conversation, A Treatise...

William Hazlitt was an English writer, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. 

Translated literally as “book of love,” Liber Amoris is William Hazlitt’s fictional account of his affair with the daughter of an innkeeper. In it, he also explores the darker elements of his personality. An important example of Romantic short fiction, this autobiographical novel was reviled upon publication due to its unsavory subject matter.

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 anectdote serves as the basis for ruminations on life as profound as they are charming.

Originally published in 1933, this volume was the result of many years’ careful first-hand study of child psychology enriched by the author’s unusually wide experience in dealing with the subject with students. It was intended to follow the development of children from infancy to adolescence,...

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.

This 1904 volume is not only a meticulously researched history of book collecting but a guide for aspiring and more experienced collectors. Hazlitt discusses collectors of every walk of life, including Reverend Thomas Corser, The Chevalier D’Eon, Richard Heber, the Duke of Roxburghe, Thomas Grenville, George Daniel, Lord Spencer, and Henry Huth.

This carefully edited collection of "THE COMPLETE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS OF S. T. COLERIDGE (Illustrated Edition)” has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, literary...

Firenze nelle descrizioni degli intellettuali che più l'hanno amata / Florence described by the writers most fond of her. Nelle parole di / In the words of Andersen, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, Eustace, Freud, Goncourt, Hazlitt, James, Le Corbusier, Mommsen, Morgan, Ruskin, Shelley, Stendhal, Trollope e Twain.

This classic 1962 guide to the King James Bible collects the most famous passages from the Old and New Testaments and arranges them with intervening synopses of all sixty-six Biblical books. Under editor Frances Hazlitt's masterful direction, readers will quickly become fully acquainted with the broad...

Originally published in 1926, the first part of this book attempted to formulate a theory of ability in the light of recent experimental results of the time. It discusses the nature of intelligence and the problem of special abilities, and includes a study of some typical forms of genius. The second...

Es gibt eine Wiederentdeckung zu machen: William Hazlitt (1778–1830), Journalist und Schriftsteller, Zeitgenosse der englischen Romantiker, eng befreundet mit den berühmten Dichtern Coleridge und Wordsworth. Seine Texte gehören zum Frechsten, Amüsantesten und Zeitlosesten (!), was in der Form...