Twenty Two Essays Of William Hazlitt

Author : Will David Howe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330077146
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Selections From William Hazlitt written by Will David Howe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From William Hazlitt: Edited With Introduction and Notes These twenty-two essays are chosen with the main purpose of illustrating the prose style of William Hazlitt and of furnishing material for its fruitful study by those who are teaching or learning the difficult art of using the English tongue in written discourse. For this reason, certain of Hazlitt's important activities, such as criticism and lectures, are imperfectly displayed, as they have httle direct appeal to the average student; while other aspects of his mind, represented by his autobiographical and reflective essays, are very fully represented, because experience has shown that here he joins hands familiarly with the veriest tyro in self-expression and readily becomes a guide and an example. Besides the autobiographical and the reflective essays, there is a group in which the problems of style are dealt with in Hazlitt's own trenchant way. A study of these essays should go far towards showing the student that the mystery of writing is one which has been deemed worthy of study by one of the keenest and most flexible representatives of English prose. The volume is issued for the reason that no existing selection affords just the right sort of materials; and it is hoped that the "well-wishing" body of students of our English tongue may welcome the present venture for bringing them under the provocative enthusiasm of Hazlitt's subject-matter and the liquid cadences of his style. The welcome should be the warmer when the student finds that these essays are not chosen from among the mediocre work of Hazlitt to fit any supposed low level, but are the author's most excellent, most famous, and most characteristic work. The Introduction gives in brief form an analysis of the personality of Hazlitt, which may aid the student in appreciating the spirit in which he worked, and the nature and value of his theme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.