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In what century did William Hazlitt live?

  • 19th Century

  • 20th Century

  • 18th Century

  • 17th Century

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William Hazlitt was an English essayist, critic, and journalist who lived in the 19th century. He is considered one of the most important literary critics of the Romantic era, and his essays on Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, and other writers are still widely read today. Hazlitt was also a political commentator, and his essays on the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars are valuable historical documents.
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