MY FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH POETS
ON THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS
OF PERSONS ONE WOULD WISH TO HAVE SEEN
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).
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