Status Updates From Selected Writings

For his work on Shakespeare and Milton

Sadly, for the next two weeks I cannot allocate too much time to read. Reading Hazlitt however isn’t necessarily for his ideas or thoughts; it is more for his prose. Being a good writer and a good, erudite thinker are too different things, Hazlitt posses (cleary) only the former.

"Things of habit only come by habit . . ."

(On Personal Identity)

. . . nostalgia remains a strong presence in Hazlitt's relation to art and is at one with its status in his writing as a myth of freedom.

(Introduction, Jon Cook)