A passionate polemicist and radical Romantic, William Hazlitt was the most brilliant essayist of his day. But since his death 170 years ago, he has been...
258 months ago

Hazlitt acknowledges the value of 'physical analogy' and praises thinkers who can find ways of 'incorporating the abstract with the concrete'.
191 months ago

Hazlitt was probably the first critic to think hard about prose and the first to recognize that prose, no less than poetry, reflected a fundamental world view.
184 months ago

“Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn, and laughter.”
116 months ago

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) demolishes the distinction between creative artist and critical commentator. He was the exemplary critic as artist.
189 months ago

This is that Hamlet the Dane, whom we read of in our youth, and whom we seem almost to remember in our after-years; he who made that famous soliloquy on...
92 months ago

The former Labour leader Michael Foot unveiled a restored, 216-word inscription, one of the longest in church history,on the restored grave in St Anne's...
257 months ago

William Hazlitt, for his superb writing and vigorous and honest thought. His range of topics – philosophy, art, theatre, politics, life – is consistently...
103 months ago

by Peter Cates. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995) had, like Vladimir Horowitz and Sviatoslav...
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Several years ago, political science professor Greg Weiner surveyed our political landscape and asked, “What space is left for prudence?
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