William Hazlitt
English essayist and writer (1778–1830)
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William Hazlitt was an English essayist and writer who lived from 1778 to 1830 and became known for his distinctive personal essays and literary criticism. His work helped establish the essay as a major literary form for expressing individual perspectives on art, literature, and society.
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5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 61,500x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 43,866x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 38,975x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,722x
- Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
Works in European collections
23 objects attributed to William Hazlitt, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, 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, William Wordsworth, and John Keats.