Table Talk

William Hazlitt was born on April 10, 1778. He is considered one of the greatest critics and essayists in the history of the English language, often being placed alongside Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.
He befriended several figures who are part of the 19th-century literary canon, such as Charles and Mary Lamb, Stendhal, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats.
He died on September 18, 1830.