Hazlitt was a reputable essayist and literary critic whose popularity has seen a recent resurgence. Amongst the figures described in this book are: Bentham, Godwin, Coleridge, Irving, Horne Tooke, Scott, Byron, Southey, Wordsworth, Mackintosh, Malthus, Gifford, Jeffrey, Brougham, Lord Eldon, Burdett, Wilberforce, Cobett, Crabbe, Hunt, Elia, and Crayon.
