Talk:William Hazlitt
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This page needs a lot of work. It has too much about WH's father and too little about WH. --Jose Ramos 12:18, 27 Aug 2003 (UTC)
plus pretty subjective: 'humanist essays'? and thing about shakespeare johnson is pretty tenuous
Thing about Shakespeare/Johnson beyond tenuous... can't imagine anybody with any detailed knowledge of Shakespeare criticism agreeing with it - and even if they did, would they put it in an encyclopaedia entry? Edjack 20:41, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
I think something is needed on Hazlitt's feud with Coleridge/Wordsworth/Southey.
William Hazlitt is a great writer who knew how the sound of a word could add depth to his topic. His other defining feature was the use of sentences that, while using proper grammar, were very long, and so seemed to drag a topic on continuously.
Hazlitt didn't actually manage to have an affair with Sarah Walker. He was completely infatuated, to the point of persuading an admirer of his to attempt to seduce Misslker. He divorced Sarah Stoddart in the hope of marrying Miss Walker, failed, nearly lost his mind but recovered enough to marry unsuccessfully for a second time. This article needs a wee bit more work :-)
