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The Pleasure of reading Hazlitt........2006-03-25
"Hatred alone is immortal," Hazlitt observes in his title essay. Children kill flies for sport. Men assemble in crowds with eager enthusiasm to witness a tragedy. Cannibals eat their enemies. Christians cast those who differ from them into hell-fire for the glory of God. Hatred turns religion into bigotry, patriotism into war, and others' defects into ridicule. "Seeing all of this as I do, and unravelling the web of human life into its various threads of meanness, spite, cowardice, want of feeling, and want of understanding, of indifference towards others and ignorance of ourselves--seeing custom prevail over excellence, itself giving way to to infamy-mistaken as I have been in my public and private hopes, calculating others from myself, and calculating wrong, always disappointed where I placed most reliance; the dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough" (p. 119).
Praised for his eloquent writing style, and reviled by conservatives for his radical politics, I encountered essayist and literary critic, William Hazlitt (1778-1830), for the first time while reading my way through the Penguin Great Ideas series. Although Hazlitt is best known work for THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE, a collection of portraits of his contemporaries, Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Jeremy Bentham, and Sir Walter Scott, this edition includes several of Hazlitt's best-known essays, "The Fight," "The Indian Jugglers," "On the Spirit of Monarchy," "What is the People?" "On Reason and Imagination," and "The Pleasure of Hating." His engaging insights into art, culture, politics, and philosophy, together with his superb prose, make him a pleasure to read. It is perhaps impossible to imagine a contemporary writer with Hazlitt's talent and keen intellect. I'm eager to return to Hazlitt by adding the Oxford World Classics SELECTED WRITINGS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT (1999) and METROPOLITAN WRITINGS (2005) to my reading list.
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
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The book, as we have already intimated, is written less to tell the reader what Mr. H. KNOWS about Shakespeare than what he FEELS about them, and WHY he feels so, and thinks that all who profess to love poetry should feel so likewise.
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Characters of Shakespeare"s Plays.......2007-02-14
The collection of essays, Characters of Shakespeare"s Plays, by William Hazlitt discusses exactly what you might think from reading the title. This book from about 1817 tells us what someone who was not just anyone thought of Shakespeare's plays and, most significantly for Hazlitt, those incredibly drawn characters. Hazlitt praised Shakespeare and, in his view, never enough. If the remedial reading of Shakespeare in high school tainted your perceptions of the plays with rote study of lines and characters supplemented with relentless quizing and testing, consider reading this author who, although he may never change your mind about Shakespeare, might delight you anyhow. Hazlitt's enthusiasm is infectious. Hazlitt rates prominently among the great essayists from Montaigne to Bacon. Others quote him and emulate him. Read him and you will know who he has influenced. Try to understand his theories but enjoy his style. His politics may be ancient but everyone's will be one day.
If You Care About Shakespeare ..........2006-11-10
Please, if you care about Shakespeare at all, get this book. Too many Literary Critics today are too full of themselves to look at Shakespeare with any pretense of objectivity. I'm not saying Hazlitt breaks the 'Shakespeare Code,' but at least he gives you thoughts to seriously consider about Shakespeare.
Please, if you read current literary criticism and can't make heads or tails of it, there's a good reason for why; little of it makes any sense. They are either hypoerbolic in their esorteric lingo, or deep in some psychological crevice that won't pan you any gold, trust me, I've been there.
Read Hazlitt, read Samuel Johnson, read A.C. Bradley, Northrop Frye, etc. ... but in my book, the VERY BEST is Harold Goddard, 'The Meaning of Shakespeare.' Obviously, there may be many 'good' critics out there, but Harold Goddard is the best I've found, by leaps and bounds. That's Goddard, G-O-D-D-A-R-D, The Meaning of Shakespeare ...
Hope you find this review helpful.
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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama, and painting, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. What unites this variety is his dramatic and passionate intelligence, his unswerving commitment to individual and political liberty, and his courageous opposition to established political and cultural power. Hailed in 1819 as `one of the ablest and most eloquent critics of our nation', Hazlitt was also reviled for his political radicalism by the conservative press of the period. His writing engages with many of the important cultural and political debates of a revolutionary period, and retains its power both to provoke and move the reader.
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A superb collection.......2005-05-02
This small collection of prose reveals Hazlitt as one of the great writers in English. Here are superb essays on politics, poetry, art and philosophy. The criticism of Shakespeare and Wordsworth is a marvel to read, as are his devastating polemics "On Fashion" and "On Public Opinion." Hazlitt's prose is masterly; muscular yet nuanced. Just leafing through the collection your eye is caught by startling pieces of insight, eloquently expressed. Furthermore, his writing reveals not only a great deal of knowledge, but more importantly, wisdom, which is a quality perhaps lacking amongst some intellectuals! This point is made clear in one of his aphorisms, which are characteristically witty and paradoxical:
"Buonaparte observes that the diplomatists of the new school were no match for those brought up under the ancien regime. The reason probably is, that the modern style of intellect inclines to abstract reasoning and general propositions, and pays less attention to individual character, interests, and circumstances. The moderns have, therefore...a greater knowledge of things, but less of the world."
Hazlitt!.......2000-06-04
William Hazlitt, though not much read today, remains one of the greatest prose stylists of the language, and with Dequincey, one of the two best of the romantic age. A must!
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Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830
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1930. Hazlitt was an English writer remembered for his humanitarian essays. He was one of the great masters of the miscellaneous essay, displaying a keen intellect, sensibility, and wide scope of interest and knowledge. His best-known work is The Spirit of the Age, a collection of portraits of his contemporaries, including Lamb, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Jeremy Bentham, and Sir Walter Scott. The essays in this volume are divided into the following headings: On Life in General; On Writers and Writing; On Painters and Painting; On Actors and Acting; and Characters. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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The spirit of the life.......2006-07-16
I would recomend this book because Hazlitt is a absolutely expert respect of the people mind and character. After you read to Shakespeare, you must read, by obligation, to William Hazlitt. The clean and wise life it's necesary for a deep spirit. My english seem the most horrible expresion. But the Hazlitt english is the most perfect english. I'm sorry. A good thinking life it's an whole avalaible life. Thank you
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Doubtful Plays of William Shakespeare
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1869 edition by Bernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig.
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Characters of Shakespear's Plays
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1881 edition by George Bell & Sons, London.
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Shakespear Rox!!.......2003-04-10
I loved this book and thought it made me reach a higher intelligence level. I especialy loved the accent of the narrator. It was the best book I have ever read. The experience was overwhelming. The price may be big but it is worth it.
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The Spirit of the Age: Contemporary Portraits
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