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Notes 14.7 Review Questions

1. Introduce Hazlitt as an essayist.
2. Discuss life and works of Hazlitt.
3. Why Hazlitt is regarded as the young philosopher?
4. Explain solitude and infatuation presented in Hazlitt essays.
Answers: Self-Assessment
1. (i)(a) (ii)(c) (iii)(a) (iv)(c)

14.8 Further Readings

1. P.S. Sastri, Hazlitt selected essays, Doaba House, Delhi.
2. Geoffrey Keynes, selected essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830.
3. Peter Quennell, A History of English Literature (London: Ferndale Editions, 1981),
p. 380.
4. Rene Wellek, A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950, 4 vols. (New Haven and
London: Yale University Press, 1955-65), vol. 3: The Age of Transition, p. 125.
5. Stephen F. Fogle, “Leigh Hunt and the End of Romantic Criticism,” in Some British
Romantics, ed. James V. Logan, John E. Jordan, and Northrop Frye (Columbus:
Ohio StateUniversity Press, 1966), p. 128.
6. James R. Thompson, Leigh Hunt (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977), p. 106.
7. These essays are conveniently reprinted by John R. Nabholtz, ed., William Hazlitt:
Selected Essays (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970), pp. 18-43.
8. William Hazlitt, The Spirit of the Age: or Contemporary Portraits, introduced by A.
R. Waller (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1910, 1955), p. 343.
9. Nabholtz, p. 30.

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