English Essayists
OTH William Hazlitt and his writing came in for their due share in a recent talk in the series, The Written Word.. Hazlitt, like the bee, might have had a sting in his tail, but his honey was unsurpassed. The famous description of Coleridge was a good choice for quotation-‘"his nose .. . . was small and mean-nothing like his work." A little hard on Coleridge, perhaps, but then people did not make Hazlitt’s life a bed of roses either. In this quotation, as in others, one sees the artist-his early ambition-apparent in Hazlitt. His pen pictures have the added advantage of making good radio listening. It would certainly be a little galling during one’s lifetime, but for the purposes of posterity one would as soon be remembered in Hazlitt’s abuse as in the praise of most people. There is real enjoyment in these programmes, even for those to whom Hazlitt is merely a name. In any case it is comforting for us merer mortals to hear somebody abuse the great and be acclaimed for it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 9
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175English Essayists New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 449, 30 January 1948, Page 9
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