Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hazlitt’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major collections and other texts
* ALL the major works, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special essays index, with chronological and alphabetical contents tables
* Easily locate the essays you want to read
* Includes Hazlitt’s rare essay collections – available in no other collection
* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Hazlitt’s contribution to literature
* Features a bonus biographies – discover Hazlitt’s literary life
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
CONTENTS:
The Books
AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN ACTION
FREE THOUGHTS ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS
ADVERTISEMENT ETC. FROM ‘THE ELOQUENCE OF THE BRITISH SENATE’
THE ROUND TABLE
CHARACTERS OF SHAKESPEAR’S PLAYS
LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS
A VIEW OF THE ENGLISH STAGE
TABLE-TALK
THE FIGHT
LIBER AMORIS
CHARACTERISTICS
SKETCHES OF THE PRINCIPAL PICTURE-GALLERIES IN ENGLAND
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE
THE PLAIN SPEAKER
NOTES OF A JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY
WINTERSLOW
HAZLITT ON ENGLISH LITERATURE
Essays Index
LIST OF ESSAYS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF ESSAYS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Criticism
WILLIAM HAZLITT by Arthur Rickett
HAZLITT by George Saintsbury
WILLIAM HAZLITT by Leslie Stephen
WILLIAM HAZLITT by Augustine Birrell
INTRODUCTION TO WILLIAM HAZLITT by Jacob Zeitlin
The Biography
WILLIAM HAZLITT by Leslie Stephen
