William Hazlitt

(1778-1830)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 NRA: Hazlitt William (1778-1830) Essayist DNB: Hazlitt, William (1778-1830), writer and painter LBT ID: WiHazli1830 VIAF ID: 87145187 LOC ID: n79125826	B/BAP: 1778-04-10 DIED: 1830-09-18
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English essayist and literary critic; author of Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Lectures on the English Poets (1818), and The Spirit of the Age (1825).
WRITINGS IN THE ARCHIVE: “Mr. Coleridge's Lay-Sermon” in The Examiner (30 March 1817) 28-29 “Wat Tyler and the Quarterly Review” in The Examiner (9 March 1817) 157-59 “The Courier and The Wat Tyler” in The Examiner (30 March 1817) 194-97 “The Lion's Head” in London Magazine 3 (March 1821) 243 “The Lion’s Head” in London Magazine 3 (April 1821) 359 “On Jealousy and Spleen of Party” in The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1826) 2:409-47 “Hazlitt in Switzerland: a Conversation” in Fraser’s Magazine 19 (March 1839) 278-283