Hazlitt

Noun

Meaning

English essayist and literary critic (1778-1830)

Examples

It was Lockhart at Blackwoods who coined the defamatory term "the Cockney School " for Hunt and his circle, which included both Hazlitt and Keats. Source: Internet

Her work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Hazlitt, Filmmaker, The New Inquiry, and The Guardian, among other publications. Source: Internet

It was 19th century English literary critic William Hazlitt who famously wrote: “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.” Source: Internet

Shakespeare Through the Ages: King Lear, p. 317. "As Hazlitt pointed out," writes Bloom, "Edmund does not share in the hypocrisy of Goneril and Regan: his Machiavellianism is absolutely pure, and lacks an Oedipal motive. Source: Internet

In the period when they were writing, the Lake Poets were widely regarded as a marginal group of radicals, though they were supported by the critic and writer William Hazlitt and others. Source: Internet

"It was the only question I have ever known," wrote the radical critic William Hazlitt, "that excited a thorough popular feeling. Source: Internet

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