William Hazlitt, one of Britain’s finest essayists, discovered the ‘natural mysteries’ of this part of north Wales more than 200 years ago. Henry Eliot follows his lead
“One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey,” wrote the essayist, William Hazlitt, “but I like to go by myself.”
Hazlitt was 19 when he first met Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in January 1798. The poet was impressed by the earnest youth and invited him to visit Nether Stowey in Somerset, where he was working with William Wordsworth on what would become the Lyrical Ballads, the founding text of English Romanticism.
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