English literary critics

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 163. Chapters: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Johnson, W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, Ford Madox Ford, William Empson, Anthony Burgess, John Dryden, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Gray, Edmund Gosse, Lytton Strachey, William Hazlitt, John Addington Symonds, Stephen Potter, Walter Pater, F. L. Lucas, Philip Tew, Michael Wilding, Peter Russell, John Middleton Murry, Peter Jukes, F. R. Leavis, James Agate, Henry Fothergill Chorley, George Puttenham, William Ernest Henley, David Holbrook, John Lennard, John Payne Collier, Geoffrey Grigson, Thomas Warton, John Wain, Alan Deyermond, Christopher Ricks, Arthur Augustus Tilley, Malcolm Bradbury, David Lodge, Ernest Sackville Turner, Margaret Forster, Henry Thomas Mackenzie Bell, Edgell Rickword, D. J. Enright, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Denis MacEoin, Emma Wilson, Philip Hobsbaum, Derek Savage, John Russell Taylor, Peter Quennell, Sylvia Huot, Jon Stallworthy, A. C. Bradley, Holbrook Jackson, Robert Hunt, Colin Falck, T. E. Hulme, Martin Seymour-Smith, James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance, Paul McDonald, Oliver Elton, Boris Ford, E. K. Chambers, Lord David Cecil, Fleetwood Sheppard, J. Dover Wilson, Walter Wilson Greg, Luke Milbourne, Helen Gardner, Hyatt Howe Waggoner, Nicholas Boyle, Karen Alkalay-Gut, George Saintsbury, Jeremy Collier, Alethea Hayter, Christopher Caudwell, Beatrice Hastings, Anthony Thwaite, Malcolm Bowie, Percy Lubbock, Alison Hennegan, Christopher J. Lane, John D. Rutherford, Ian Fletcher, John Davy Hayward, Al Alvarez, Tony Tanner, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Harold Lawton, Edward Capell, Anthony Nuttall, Anna Beer, Elizabeth Young, Alamgir Hashmi, E. H. Visiak, Robert Liddell, Anne Gilchrist, E. M. W. Tillyard, Joseph Warton, Ronald Blythe, Robert Speaight, Jonathan Dollimore, Roger Pearson, F. W. Bateson, Peter Bayley, Montagu Slater, Andrew George Lehmann, Basil Willey, Bernard Bergonzi, C. H. Herford, Vivien Noakes, Andrew Sawyer, Walter Allen, Lionel Charles Knights, Margery Fisher, P. N. Furbank, William John Courthope, Linford S. Haines, Francis Scarfe, Jane de Gay, Q. D. Leavis, Alan Sinfield, John Holloway, Hereward Thimbleby Price, Maria Francesca Rossetti, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Clive Scott, John Worthen, Douglas Ainslie, Michael Sheringham, Simon Gaunt, Alain Viala, Leslie Hill, Bill Burgwinkle, Roger Paulin, John Upton, Alison Sinclair, Lisa Downing. Excerpt: William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 - 18 September 1830) was an English writer, remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, and as a grammarian and philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet his work is currently little-read and mostly out of print. During his lifetime he befriended many people who are now part of the 19th-century literary canon, including Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Hazlitt's father's family were Irish Protestants who moved from the county of Antrim to Tipperary in the early 18th century. His father, also named William Hazlitt, attended the University of Glasgow (where he was taught by Adam Smith), receiving a master's degree in 1760. Not entirely content with his Presbyterian faith, he became a Unitarian minister in England. In 1764 he became pastor at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, where in 1766 he married Grace Loftus, daughter of a recently deceased ironmonger. Of their many children, only three survive...