Editing William Hazlitt (section)

==Posthumous reputation==
[[File:Bust of William Hazlitt in Maidstone Museum.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|Bust of Hazlitt in [[Maidstone Museum]] ]]
His works having fallen out of print, Hazlitt's reputation declined. In the late 1990s his reputation was reasserted by admirers and his works reprinted. Two major works by others then appeared: ''The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style'' by [[Tom Paulin]] in 1998 and ''Quarrel of the Age: The Life and Times of William Hazlitt'' by [[A. C. Grayling]] in 2000. Hazlitt's reputation has continued to rise, and now many contemporary thinkers, poets, and scholars consider him one of the greatest critics in the English language, and its finest essayist.<ref>Grayling, "Memorial"; Paulin, ''Day-Star'', p. 1; Paulin, "Spirit"; Burley, p. 3.</ref>

In 2003, following a lengthy appeal initiated by [[Ian Mayes]] together with A. C. Grayling, Hazlitt's gravestone was restored in [[St Anne's Churchyard]], and unveiled by [[Michael Foot]].<ref>Mayes, Ian, [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hazlitt-society/hazlitt-bibliography/articles/revival-time "Revival time"], ''The Guardian'', 5 May 2001, via Hazlitt Society.</ref><ref>Ezard, John, [http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,934681,00.html "William Hazlitt's near-derelict grave restored"], ''The Guardian'', 11 April 2003.</ref> A Hazlitt Society was then inaugurated. The society publishes an annual [[peer-reviewed]] journal called ''The Hazlitt Review''.

The last place Hazlitt lived in, on [[Frith Street]] in London, is now a hotel, [[Hazlitt's]].

The [[Jonathan Bate]] novel ''The Cure for Love'' (1998) was based indirectly on Hazlitt's life.<ref>{{cite web
 |title = Jonathan Bate
 |last = Smith
 |first = Jules
 |year = 2005
 |website = [[British Council|British Literature Council]]
 |url = https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/jonathan-bate
 |access-date = 27 November 2015
}}</ref>

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