Liber Amoris

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | 474 words | Copyright

Liber Amoris; or, The New Pygmalion, an autobiographical prose work by W. Hazlitt, published anonymously in 1823. It records in letters and dialogues the infatuation Hazlitt conceived at the age of 43 for a 19-year-old girl, Sarah Walker, who eventually rejected him for another suitor. The fevered tone of the book, and its humiliating self-exposure, distressed Hazlitt's friends and gave ammunition to his various enemies, his anonymity having been seen through at once.

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