The selected writings of William Hazlitt. Vol. 2 (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Essays.
• Further Information: Note: Duncan Wu, Tom Paulin, David Bromwich, Stanley Jones, Roy Park.
• Authors: Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830
• Editors: Wu, Duncan; Paulin, Tom; Bromwich, David, 1951-; Park, Roy; Jones, Stanley, 1916-
• Contents: 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 Kean’s Iago [Vili] -- On the Love of the Country [IX] -- On Posthumous Fame [X] -- On Hogarth’s Marriage a-la-mode [XI] -- The Subject Continued [XII] -- On Milton’s Lycidas [XIII] -- On Milton’s 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 Night’s Dream [XXII] -- On the Beggar’s 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 Milton’s Eve [XXXVI] -- Observations on Mr Wordsworth’s 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.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 824.7
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000749137
• Related ISBNs: 9781000742756; 9781000745948; 9780429348617
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