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In November 1806his Essay on the Principles of Human Action was reviewed anonymously and contemptuously in The British Critic by Wordsworth's brother Christopher (who implied that Hazlitt aimed at 'sapping the foundations of all religion') and not reviewed at all by Coleridge.13 Since the essay was one on which Hazlitt built his highest hopes, these were bitter blows.
Critical Analysis of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2513 Words 11 Pages Although Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge are often considered the fathers of the English Romantic movement, their collective theologies and philosophies were often criticized but rarely taken serious by the pair of writers due to their illustrious prestige as poets.
William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age. Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 2004 This appears to be the only paperback edition of Hazlitt's greatest work currently in print. It is lavishly illustrated with portraits of the various people described by Hazlitt, and is prefaced with an essay by Robert Woof, director of the Wordsworth Trust.
William Wordsworth Introduction. William Wordsworth was an English poet, a key figure of Romanticism, and the author of the most famous poem ever written about daffodils. Born in 1770, Wordsworth and his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge invented a new style of poetry in which nature and the diction of the common man trumped formal, stylized language. Their seminal 1798 poetry collection, Lyrical.
There were two pre-eminent literary critics in the second decade of the nineteenth century, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Hazlitt.While the former developed his critical principles in his.
The English literary and social critic William Hazlitt (1778-1830) is best known for his informal essays, which are elegantly written and cover a wide range of subjects. Born at Maidstone, Kent, on April 10, 1778, William Hazlitt was the son of the Reverend William Hazlitt, a Unitarian minister. In 1783 the family sailed for America. Three years later.
William Hazlitt was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell, but his work is currently little-read and mostly out of print.