Essays of William Hazlitt (Classic Reprint): Selected and Edited, With Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr: Selected and Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hazlitt, William Baldwin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440067694 ISBN 13: 9781440067693

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Essays of William Hazlitt: Selected and Edited, With Introduction and Notes, by Frank Carr Of the life of William Hazlitt, no more will be said here than seems needful for considering his work as an Essayist. He was born on the 10th of April 1778, in Mitre Lane, Maidstone. His father was a Unitarian minister, who, after several changes, settled at Wem, in Shropshire. In 1795, amongst other places, young Hazlitt visited Burleigh House, and beheld its pictures, some of which he treasured in his mind to the end of life. In 1796 Coleridge settled at Nether-Stowey, and preached in the Unitarian chapel at Taunton. In January 1798 Coleridge, whilst officiating for Mr. Rowe at Shrewsbury, visited Hazlitt sfather at Wem. This proved the great inspiring time of young Hazlitt's intellectual life. He heard Coleridge preach: saw much of him: above all, was invited by the poet to Nether-Stowey in the spring. During the interval, Hazlitt went to Llangollen Vale, by way of initiating himself into "the mysteries of natural scenery." Coleridge, in December 1796, had published his "Ode to the Departing Year." The poetry, in its character and music, was new to young Hazlitt. Uplifted in spirit by his approaching visit, inspired by the ode, that expedition was fraught with new awakenings. He remembered, long years afterwards, how he sat up half the night at an inn at Bridgwater to read Paul and Virginia; how on his birthday he sat down to a new volume of the New Heloise at a Llangollen inn. Llangollen Vale itself became to him "the cradle of a new existence: in the river that winds through it, my spirit was baptised in the waters of Helicon." Coleridge received him with a welcome. Wordsworth he there met; heard him chaunt some of his poetry; saw some of his Lyrical Ballads in manuscript. Hazlitt spent three weeks at Nether-Stowey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1440067694
• ISBN 13: 9781440067693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 349