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Johannes Gutenberg The man credited with the invention of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg, is a man whose history is clouded in many uncertainties. Although he is known to have been born around the beginning of the 1400’s in Mainz, Germany, his exact birth date is still unknown: “The sources do not reveal more than his birth must have occurred between the year 1394 and the year 1404.
Table-Talk is a collection of essays by the English cultural critic and social commentator William Hazlitt.It was originally published as two volumes, the first of which appeared in April 1821. The essays deal with topics such as art, literature and philosophy.
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Essays and criticism on William Hazlitt - Further Reading. Biography Baker, Herschel. William Hazlitt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962, 530 p.
William Hazlitt as an Essayist William Hazlitt As An Essayist. William Hazlitt took up the writing of essay professionals and was serious about it. He was also a printer, a lecturer, and a biographer but essentially he was an essayist, a great essayist. The outstanding feature of his essays was that like Bacon, he wrote on a variety of subject and themes. His topic included anything which.
William Hazlitt 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, but his work is currently little-read and mostly out of print.
William Hazlitt was born on April 10, 1778, and died a hundred years ago on September 18, 1830. His father, the Rev. William Hazlitt, was a Unitarian minister, who in 1778 had been preaching for eight years at the Chapel in Maidstone. He was the son of a poor Irish farmer, and after preparing for the ministry at Glasgow University had married in 1766 the daughter of an iron- monger at Wisbeach.