The Logic of Passion: The Literary Criticism of William HazlittHazlitt is easily the most representative of the major British critics writing during the period of 'High Romanticism' (1790 1830), as well as one of the two greatest No other critic is so central and in so many ways The Logic of Passion is a book that distils over twenty years of thinking not only about Hazlitt but also about three more general subjects without which a first class book on Hazlitt as a critic could hardly be written. (1) The English