FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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His friend, Samuel Coleridge
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William Hazlitt, writer of The Spirit of the Age
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His lover, Annette Vallon
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His sister, Dorothy Wordsworth
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Detailed explanation-1: -It was Hazlitt’s intention to disprove the notion that man is naturally selfish (benevolent actions being rationally modified selfishness, ideally made habitual), a premise fundamental to much of the moral philosophy of Hazlitt’s day. The treatise was finally published only in 1805.
Detailed explanation-2: -William Wordsworth was an innovative writer who marked the start of the Romantic Period in literature. His joint publication of “Lyrical Ballads” with Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the text that started a new era of writing. He was the Poet laureate of England from 1843 till his death in 1850.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hazlitt’s sentences are brief and abrupt, vigoruos and direct. He often writes balanced, antithetical sentences to present the contrasting ideas. APHORISM: According to Hugh Walker, ‘Hazlitt is one of the masters of aphorism. Like Bacon he is aphoristic.