Hazlitt on English Literature

Chronology of Hazlitt’s Life and Writings

1778	William Hazlitt born at Maidstone in Kent, April 10.
1783-1786	Residence in America.
1787 ff.	Residence at Wem in Shropshire.
1793-1794	Student in the Hackney Theological College.
1798	Meeting with Coleridge and Wordsworth.
1798?-1805	Study and practice of painting.
1802	Visit to Paris.
1805	Essay on the Principles of Human Action.
1806	Free Thoughts on Public Affairs.
1807	An Abridgment of the Light of Nature Revealed, by Abraham Tucker.
	Reply to the Essay on Population by the Rev. T. R. Malthus.
	Eloquence of the British Senate.
1808	Marriage with Sarah Stoddart and settlement at Winterslow.
1810	A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue.
1812	Removal to London.—Lectures on philosophy at the Russell Institution.
1812-1814	On the staff of the Morning Chronicle.
1814	Begins contributing to the Champion, Examiner, and the Edinburgh Review.
1816	Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft.
1817	The Round Table.
	The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays.
1818	A View of the English Stage.
	Lectures on the English Poets. (Delivered at the Surrey Institution.)
1819	Lectures on the English Comic Writers. (Delivered at the Surrey Institution at the close of 1818.)
	A Letter to William Gifford Esq., from William Hazlitt Esq.
	Political Essays.
1820	Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. (Delivered at the Surrey Institution at the close of 1819.)
	Joins the staff of the London Magazine.
1821-22	Table Talk, or Original Essays (2 volumes).
1822	Episode of Sarah Walker.—Journey to Scotland to obtain a divorce from his wife.
1823	Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion.
	Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucauld’s Maxims.
1824	Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England.
	Select British Poets.
	Marriage with Mrs. Bridgewater.—Tour of the Continent.
1825	The Spirit of the Age.
1826	Notes of a Journey through France and Italy.
	The Plain Speaker, Opinions on Books, Men, and Things (2 volumes).
1828-1830	Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (4 volumes).
1830	Conversations of James Northcote.
	Death of William Hazlitt, September 18.