William Hazlitt i Cyprian Norwid o zadaniach dziewiętnastowiecznej prasy

The aim of this article is to compare the essays of William Hazlitt and Cyprian Kamil Norwid. The comparative surface focuses on the issue, repeatedly touched by them, of tasks imposed on a nineteenth-century journalist. The social and political duties of the nineteenth-century writings are discussed on the faith of exclusively non-fictional texts of both authors. The result of the comparison is the reconstruction of demands placed by Hazlitt and Norwid on the nineteenth-century press.