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HAZLITT ON ENGLISH LITERATURE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE

BY JACOB ZEITLIN, Ph.D.

ASSOCIATE IN ENGLISH UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS NEW YORK

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

1913

PREFACE CONTENTS CHRONOLOGY OF HAZLITT’S LIFE AND WRITINGS INTRODUCTION

WILLIAM HAZLITT I II

THE AGE OF ELIZABETH

SPENSER

III

SHAKSPEARE

THE CHARACTERS OF SHAKSPEARE’S PLAYS

Cymbeline Macbeth Iago Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Midsummer Night’s Dream Falstaff Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

MILTON

POPE

VII

ON THE PERIODICAL ESSAYISTS

“The proper study of mankind is man.”

VIII

THE ENGLISH NOVELISTS

CHARACTER OF MR. BURKE, 1807[133]

MR. WORDSWORTH

MR. COLERIDGE

XII

MR. SOUTHEY

XIII

ELIA

XIV

SIR WALTER SCOTT

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.”

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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