William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.
List of abbreviations -- Introductory notes -- Brief biographical
directory of selected personages -- The R ound Table -- Volume -- On the Love
of Life [ III] -- On Classical Education [ IV] -- On the Tatler [ V] -- On
Modern Comedy [ VII] -- On Mr Keans Iago [ Vili] -- On the Love of the Country
[ IX] -- On Posthumous Fame [ X] -- On Hogarths Marriage a-la-mode [ XI] -- The
Subject Continued [ XII] -- On Miltons Lycidas [ XIII] -- On Miltons
Versification [ XIV] -- To the President of the Round Table. A Small Critic --
On Manner [ XV] -- On the Tendency of Sects [ XVII] -- On John Bunde [ XVIII] --
On the Causes of Methodism [ XIX] -- On the Midsummer Nights Dream [ XXII] --
On the Beggars Opera [ XXIII] -- On Patriotism - A Fragment [ XXVI] -- Volume
-- On Beauty [ XXVII] -- On Imitation [ XXVIII] -- On Gusto [ XXIX] -- On
Pedantry [ XXX] -- The Same Subject Continued [ XXXI] -- On the Character of
Rousseau [ XXXII] -- On Different Sorts of Fame [ XXXIII] -- Character of John
Bull [ XXXIV] -- On Good-Nature [ XXXV] -- On the Character of Miltons Eve
[ XXXVI] -- Observations on Mr Wordsworths Poem, The Excursion [ XXXVII] --
The Same Subject Continued [ XXXVIII] -- Character of the late Mr Pitt [ XLII]
-- On Religious Hypocrisy [ XLIII] -- On the Literary Character [ XLV] -- On
Common-Place Critics [ XLVI] -- On the Catalogue Raisonné of the British
Institution [ XLVII] -- Same Subject Continued [ XLVIII] -- On Poetical
Versatility [ XLIX] -- On Actors and Acting [ L] -- On the Same [ LI] -- Why the
Arts are not Progressive? - A Fragment [ LII] -- Lectures on the English Poets
-- Lecture I: Introductory - On Poetry in General -- Lecture II: On Chaucer
and Spenser -- Lecture III: On Shakspeare and Milton -- Lecture IV: On Dryden
and Pope -- Lecture V: On Thomson and Cowper -- Lecture VI: On Swift, Young,
Gray, Collins, &c. -- Lecture VII: On Burns, and the Old English Ballads --
Lecture VIII: On the Living Poets -- Appendix -- Notes -- Books referred to
in the notes to volume 2.