English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1234 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hazlitt's Familiar Essay
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The idea
William Hazlitt, essayist, drama critic and painter, is placed among the greatest English essayists. His Spirit of the Age, of eighteen twenty-five, sketched his contemporaries, and in "My First Acquaintance with Poets" he recalled hearing Coleridge speak.
In practice
Portraits of the age.
Where people slip
Hazlitt's essays are personal and critical.
Your place on the trail
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