The cover page is adapted from Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, a painting completed in 1658 by Nicolas Poussin. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/

Table-Talk

de William Hazlitt

Chapitres (33)

Volume I: On the Pleasure of Painting 0:00
The Same Subject Continued 24:52
On the Past and Future 50:24
On Genius and Common Sense 1:19:12
The Same Subject Continued 1:53:09
Character of Cobbett 2:18:56
On People with One Idea 2:47:23
On the Ignorance of the Learned 3:17:53
The Indian Jugglers 3:41:32
On Living to One’s-Self 4:19:58
On Thought and Action 4:54:04
On Will-Making 5:30:20
On Certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses 5:53:21
The Same Subject Continued 6:21:08
On Paradox and Commonplace 7:07:38
On Vulgarity and Affectation 7:40:17
Volume II: On a Landscape of Nicolas Poussin 8:12:10
On Milton’s Sonnets 8:30:01
On Going a Journey 8:50:35
On Coffeehouse Politicians 9:18:33
On the Aristocracy of Letters 10:01:41
On Criticism 10:29:57
On Great and Little Things 11:07:34
On Familiar Style 11:57:39
On Effeminacy of Character 12:16:17
Why Distant Objects Please 12:39:01
On Corporate Bodies 13:07:04
Whether Actors Ought to Sit in the Boxes? 13:32:04
On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority 13:54:03
On Patronage and Puffing 14:24:06
On the Knowledge of Character 15:05:07
On the Picturesque and Ideal 15:50:31
On the Fear of Death 16:04:20

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William Hazlitt was a well-regarded critic and essayist in his day, and Table-Talk, a collection of some of his more popular short essays, is perhaps his best-remembered work.

The essays themselves range in subject from philosophy, to art, to literature, culture, society, and politics, with titles like “On the Pleasures of Painting” and “On Corporate Bodies.” Hazlitt’s intimate style and deep familiarity with many different aspects of art culture (not only was he a literary success, but he studied under Joshua Reynolds to be a portrait painter) make his essays fascinating multi-disciplinary reads.

Table-Talk was originally published in two separate volumes, and, largely due to Hazlitt’s political activism, was received poorly by his contemporaries. Today it’s considered one of his masterpieces.

Narrateur: Qwen3-TTS Aiden
Durée: 16 h 31 min
Langue: English
Parution: 19 septembre 2026
Ebook source: Standard Ebooks
Licence: Public domain

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