Liber Amoris (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

William; Hazlitt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330900359 ISBN 13: 9781330900352

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Liber Amoris

The Publishers avail themselves of an unexpected opportunity of printing from the original mss., by permission, the Lzber Anton}, eleven letters from Hazlitt to P. G. Patmore upon the subject, a letter from Sarah Walker to Hazlitt, the Diary of Mrs. Hazlitt in Scotland and five letters from that lady to her son and sister-in-law written between 1824 and I 83 I. In the text of the Liber Amen} many variations from the printed one of 182 3 occur; the correspondence with Patmore, as here given, constitutes the earliest attempt to exhibit it as it left the hands of the writer, since in those works, where it has been previously published or quoted, it either assumes the form of extracts, or is so out of harmony with the autograph letters themselves as to be often barely identifiable. A few letters appear elsewhere, which are not at present, and are not known ever to have been, among the Hazlitt Papers. On the other hand, one is now furnished for the first time from that source. It is to be suspected that the former printed versions were tampered with; at any rate, they are far from represent ing the original documents with fidelity, and the alterations and omissions are by no means always intelligible or judicious.

The volume now offered to the literary student, rather than to the general reader, has to be regarded as a repository of thegenuine material, so far as it survives, for arriving at a solution of a 'most extraordinary, most involved, and most painful episode in the career of one of the leading men of letters of the age immediately preceding our own. Several parallel or cognate cases have been cited; perhaps that which is best familiar is the amour of the Duke of Grafton with Parsons, and there is the additional resemblance or aflinity that she, like Sarah Walker, was a tailor's daughter.

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English essayist and critic, William Hazlitt was a distinguish author of humanistic essays and literary criticism. His critical remarks on Shakespeare's plays and characters made him prominent among his contemporaries. His father was an Irish Unitarian clergyman. In 1783 his family moved to America where his father preached and founded the First Unitarian Church at Boston. In 1787 they returned to England where he was sent to Hackney College London to be trained for the Unitarian ministry. But after a few years he left it and decided to become a painter. His interest in writing led to the start of his literary career with the publication of On the Principles of Human Action in 1805. Hazlitt delivered various lectures on philosophy in London, the most famous of which are On the English Poets (1818), and On the English Comic Writers (1819). As an essayist he also contributed to the many journals. His most celebrated critical essays include The Round Table (1817), Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (1817), and The Spirit of the Age (1825).

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1330900359
• ISBN 13: 9781330900352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384