Hazlitt
WILLIAM, an English author and critic; born in 1778. Educated for the clerical profession, Hazlitt, after a brief attempt at an art career, decided to enter literature, and in 1805 produced his "Principles of Human Action." This was the germ of a long and successful literary career, during which he gave to the world his "Lectures on the Literature of the Elizabethan Age"; "Table Talk"; "Lectures on the English Poets"; "The Spirit of the Age," and "Life of Napoleon Bonaparte." He died in 1830.