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This edition of William Hazlitt’s notable collection of essays on art, literature, and philosophy. The first edition of William Hazlitt notable collection of poems Table-Talk, published in 1821. A second volume was published the following year; however this work is complete in itself. William Hazlitt is one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language alongside Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. Hazlitt offers a selection of sixteen essays which discuss topics such as art, literature, and philosophy.

William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher. He is now considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He is also acknowledged as the finest art critic of his age. Despite his high standing among historians of literature and art, 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, William Wordsworth, and John Keats.