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| New memorial on site of original grave. Photo by: Milky |
Death: 18th September 1830
Location: St Anne's Church, Soho, London, England Buy books by William Hazlitt
English writer, remembered for his essays and literary criticism, and as a philosopher. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English  |
| Original gravestone. Photo by: NotFromUtrecht |
language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Yet 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, and William Wordsworth.
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