The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 05 (of 12)

"The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 05 (of 12)" by William Hazlitt is a set of early 19th-century talks that inspects the work of different English poets, zooming in on how they wrote and what they brought to the world of English literature. The book looks at poems in order to closely examine the nature of poetry and how it makes people feel. Hazlitt thinks of poetry as people’s reactions to stuff that goes on in the world, which makes people feel feelings through colorful words and sounds. He thinks poetry is super important, he thinks it's like a language that ties people to nature and shows how they feel joy, sadness, and everything else. Hazlitt talks of the fact that all people have some sort of connection to poetry and that it can be found in all corners of the world, including places like nature.