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William Hazlitt 1778—1830 赫兹里特 William Hazlitt (1778—1830) Life Story Life Story Life Story Life Story Life Story Achievement as a Literary Critic 1)The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, 《莎士比亚戏剧中的人物》 2)???? Lectures on the English Poets, 《论英国诗人》 Achievement as a Literary Critic 3) Lectures on the English Comic Writers, 《论英国喜剧作家》 4) Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, 《论伊丽莎白时代戏剧文学》 Achievement as a Literary Critic 5)??The Spirit of the Age, 《时代精神》 Achievement as an Essayist 1) Table Talk,《桌边文谈》 2) The Plain Speaker《直言不讳的演说家》 3) Sketches and Essays 《札记与散文》 Comments on Hazlitt 1. Hazlitt’s life and career had been greatly influenced by the rise and fall of the French Revolution. 2. After the defeat of Napoleon, Hazlitt was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to the cause of the French Revolution. Comments on Hazlitt 3. All his life, he remained loyal to the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity(/fr??t?:niti/友爱，博爱). 4. He was a man of courage and honesty, scornful of double-dealing(两面派). 5. He wrote various kinds of essays and lectures, and became a master of the familiar essay in English Romantic literature. On Familiar StyleOn Familiar Style 论平易的文体 It is not easy to write familiar style. Many people mistake a familiar for a vulgar style, and suppose that to write without affectation is to write at random. On the contrary, there is nothing that requires more precision, and, if I may so say, purity of expression, than the style I am speaking of. It utterly rejects not only all unmeaning pomp, but all low, cant phrases, and loose, unconnected, slipshod allusions. It is not to take the first word that offers, but the best word in common use; it is not to throw words together in any combinations we please, but to follow and avail ourselves of the true idiom of the language. To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who