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Hazlitt, William
English essayist and critic. His work is characterized by invective, scathing irony, an intuitive critical sense, and a gift for epigram. His essays include ‘Characters of Shakespeare's Plays’ (1817), ‘Lectures on the English Poets’ (1818–19), ‘English Comic Writers’ (1819), and ‘Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth’ (1820).
Other works are Table Talk (1821–22); The Spirit of the Age (1825), literary studies in which he argues that the personality of the writer is germane to a criticism of what they write; and Liber Amoris (1823), in which he revealed aspects of his love life.
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