The Collected Works of William Hazlitt in Twelve Volumes Volume Five

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Author

Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830

Title

The collected works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 05 (of 12)

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

English essays -- 19th century

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 64823

Release Date

March 15, 2021

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE COLLECTED WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE — CONTENTS — 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
4. 4.LECTURES ON THE DRAMATIC LITERATURE OF THE AGE OF ELIZABETH — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE — CONTENTS — ADVERTISEMENT — LECTURE I.—INTRODUCTORY GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT — LECTURE II ON THE DRAMATIC WRITERS CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKESPEAR, LYLY, MARLOW, HEYWOOD, MIDDLETON, AND ROWLEY — LECTURE III ON MARSTON, CHAPMAN, DECKAR, AND WEBSTER — LECTURE IV ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, BEN JONSON, FORD, AND MASSINGER. — LECTURE V ON SINGLE PLAYS, POEMS, ETC., THE FOUR P’S, THE RETURN FROM PARNASSUS, GAMMER GURTON’S NEEDLE, AND OTHER WORKS. — LECTURE VI ON MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, F. BEAUMONT, P. FLETCHER, DRAYTON, DANIEL, &C. SIR P. SIDNEY’S ARCADIA, AND OTHER WORKS. — LECTURE VII CHARACTER OF LORD BACON’S WORKS—COMPARED AS TO STYLE WITH SIR THOMAS BROWN AND JEREMY TAYLOR. — LECTURE VIII ON THE SPIRIT OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE—ON THE GERMAN DRAMA, CONTRASTED WITH THAT OF THE AGE OF ELIZABETH
5. 5.PREFACE AND CRITICAL LIST OF AUTHORS FROM SELECT BRITISH POETS — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE — PREFACE — A CRITICAL LIST OF AUTHORS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
6. 6.NOTES — LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS — I. ON POETRY IN GENERAL — II. ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER. — III. ON SHAKSPEARE AND MILTON — IV. ON DRYDEN AND POPE — V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER — VI. ON SWIFT, YOUNG, GRAY, COLLINS, Etc. — VII. ON BURNS, AND THE OLD ENGLISH BALLADS — VIII. ON THE LIVING POETS — NOTES ON LECTURES ON THE AGE OF ELIZABETH — I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT — II. ON LYLY, MARLOW, Etc. — III. ON MARSTON, CHAPMAN, Etc. — IV. ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, Etc. — V. ON SINGLE PLAYS, POEMS, Etc. — VI. ON MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, Etc. — VII. CHARACTER OF LORD BACON’S WORKS, Etc. — VIII. ON THE SPIRIT OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE, Etc. — SELECT BRITISH POETS

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