William Hazlitt (10. dubna 1778, Maidstone, Kent – 18. září 1830, Soho, Londýn) byl anglický romantický literární historik a kritik, esejista, novinář a malíř, společně s Charlesem Lambem přední představitel eseje 19.
William Carew Hazlitt (22 August 1834 – 8 September 1913), [1 ] known professionally as W. Carew Hazlitt, was an English lawyer, bibliographer, editor and writer.
Hazlitt's livelihoo was dependent on it. As the biography argues, he took political sketch-writing to a new level, invented sports commentary as we know it, and created the essay-form as practised by Clive James, Gore Vidal, and Michael Foot…
William Hazlitt (18 April 1737 – 16 July 1820) was a Unitarian minister and author, and the father of the Romantic essayist and social commentator of the same name. [2 ] He was an important figure in eighteenth-century English and American…
In 1789 he published, in a very small quarto volume, Fourteen Sonnets, which were received with extraordinary favour, not only by the general public, but by such men as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
31. 7. 2009William Windom. Actor: Escape from the Planet of the Apes. A man of all mediums, this veteran, Manhattan-born character actor was named after his great-grandfather, Lincolnesque Congressman William Windom.
William Windham PC PC (Ire) (14 May [O.S. 3 May] 1750 – 4 June 1810) was a British Whig politician. Elected to Parliament in 1784, Windham was attached to the remnants of the Rockinghamite faction of Whigs, whose members included his friends…
William Thomas Beckford (* 1. Oktober 1760 in Fonthill, Wiltshire oder London; [1 ] † 2. Mai 1844 in Bath) war ein englischer Millionär und Exzentriker, hauptsächlich bekannt als Schriftsteller und Baumeister.
He gained a reputation as a profligate and a dandy, and in 1837, was transported to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (now the Australian state of Tasmania) for frauds on the Bank of England.