
Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature
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- HAZLITT ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE
- JACOB ZEITLIN, Ph.D.
- ASSOCIATE IN ENGLISH UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
- NEW YORK
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- LONDON, TORONTO, MELBOURNE, AND BOMBAY HUMPHREY MILFORD
- 1913
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- CHRONOLOGY OF HAZLITT’S LIFE AND WRITINGS
- INTRODUCTION
- WILLIAM HAZLITT I
- II
- I
- THE AGE OF ELIZABETH
- II
- SPENSER
- III
- SHAKSPEARE
- IV
- THE CHARACTERS OF SHAKSPEARE’S PLAYS
- Cymbeline
- Macbeth
- Iago
- Hamlet
- Romeo and Juliet
- Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Falstaff
- Twelfth Night; or, What You Will
- V
- MILTON
- VI
- POPE
- VII
- ON THE PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS
- “The proper study of mankind is man.”
- VIII
- THE ENGLISH NOVELISTS
- IX
- CHARACTER OF MR. BURKE, 1807[133]
- X
- MR. WORDSWORTH
- XI
- MR. COLERIDGE
- XII
- MR. SOUTHEY
- XIII
- ELIA
- XIV
- SIR WALTER SCOTT
- XV
- LORD BYRON
- XVI
- ON POETRY IN GENERAL
- XVII
- MY FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH POETS
- XVIII
- ON THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS
- XIX
- OF PERSONS ONE WOULD WISH TO HAVE SEEN
- “Come like shadows—so depart.”
- XX
- ON READING OLD BOOKS
- NOTES
- THE AGE OF ELIZABETH
- SPENSER
- SHAKSPEARE
- CHARACTERS OF SHAKSPEARE’S PLAYS CYMBELINE
- MACBETH
- IAGO
- HAMLET
- ROMEO AND JULIET
- MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
- HENRY IV
- TWELFTH NIGHT
- MILTON
- POPE
- PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS
- THE ENGLISH NOVELISTS
- CHARACTER OF MR. BURKE
- MR. WORDSWORTH
- MR. COLERIDGE
- MR. SOUTHEY
- ELIA
- SIR WALTER SCOTT
- LORD BYRON
- ON POETRY IN GENERAL
- MY FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH POETS
- ON THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS
- OF PERSONS ONE WOULD WISH TO HAVE SEEN
- ON READING OLD BOOKS
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