Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
Table Talk, published in two volumes in 1821 and 1822, collects some of William Hazlitt's best-known familiar essays. Writing in a direct, combative and personal style, he takes up the pleasure of painting, which he once hoped to make his profession, genius and common sense, people with one idea, the ignorance of the learned, living to oneself, thought and action, will-making, paradox and commonplace, and vulgarity and affectation. "The Indian Jugglers" begins from a street performer's skill to ask what greatness is, "On Going a Journey" praises walking alone, and there are portraits of William Cobbett and essays on Poussin, Milton's sonnets and the inconsistencies of Sir Joshua Reynolds's lectures on art. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first essay is free.
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