William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
English essayist and literary critic; author of Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Lectures on the English Poets
(1818), and The Spirit of the Age (1825).
English essayist and literary critic; author of Characters of
Shakespeare's Plays (1817), Lectures on the English Poets
(1818), and The Spirit of the Age (1825).
An Abridgment of The Light of Nature pursued.
“Arguing in a Circle” in
The Liberal.
“Boswell redivivus” in
New Monthly Magazine.
“Table-talk (No. IV): Burleigh House” in
New Monthly Magazine.
“Case of Mr. Hone” in
Yellow Dwarf.
Characteristics: in the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims.
Characters of Shakespear's Plays.
“Coleridge's Literary Life” in
Edinburgh Review.
Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R. A..
“Living Authors, No. V: Crabbe” in
London Magazine.
The Eloquence of the British Senate, or, Select Specimens from the Speeches of
the most distinguished Parliamentary Speakers, from the Beginning of the Reign of Charles
I. to the Present Time: with Notes Biographical, Critical, and Explanatory.
An Essay on the Principles of Human Action: being an Argument in favour of the
natural Disinterestedness of the Human Mind. To which are added, some Remarks on the
Systems of Hartley and Helvetius.
“Essay on the Spirit of Monarchy” in
The Liberal.
“An Examination of Mr. Malthus's Doctrines” in
Yellow Dwarf.
“A Farewell to Essay-writing” in
London Weekly Review.
“The Fight” in
New Monthly Magazine.
“Flaxman's Lectures on Sculpture” in
Edinburgh Review.
Free Thoughts on Public Affairs: or Advice to a Patriot; in a Letter addressed
to a Member of the Old Opposition.
“The Fudge Family in Paris” in
Yellow Dwarf.
“Guy Faux” in
The Examiner.
“Hunt's Story of Rimini” in
Edinburgh Review.
“The Lay of the Laureate” in
The Examiner.
Lectures chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. Delivered
at the Surry Institution.
Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Delivered at the Surry
Institution.
Lectures on the English Poets delivered at the Surrey Institution.
A Letter to William Gifford, Esq. from William Hazlitt, Esq..
“Letters of Horace Walpole ” in
Edinburgh Review.
Liber amoris: or the New Pygmalion.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Literary Remains of the late William Hazlitt: with Notice of his Life.
Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft.
“Mr. Malthus and the Edinburgh Reviewers” in
Cobbett's Political Register.
“My First Acquaintance with the Poets” in
The Liberal.
A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue: for the Use of Schools. In
which the Genius of our Speech is especially attended to and the Discoveries of Mr. Horne
Tooke and other Modern Writers on the Formation of Language are for the first time
incorporated.
Notes of a Journey through France and Italy.
“Of Persons one would wish to have seen” in
New Monthly Magazine.
“On a Portrait of an English Lady by Vandyke” in
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
“On Actors and Acting” in
The Examiner.
“On Coffee-house Politicians” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Clerical Character” in
Yellow Dwarf.
“On Dreams” in
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
“On Mr Wordsworth's Excursion” in
The Examiner.
“On Living to One's Self” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On Paradox and Commonplace” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On Patronage and Puffing” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On Pedantry” in
The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and
Manners.
“On reading New Books” in
Sketches and Essays.
“On Spurzheim's Theory” in
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
“On the Beggar's Opera” in
The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and
Manners.
“On the Catalogue Raisonnee of the British Institution” in
The Examiner.
“On the Clerical Character” in
Yellow Dwarf.
“On the Conduct of Life; or, Advice to a Schoolboy” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Conversation of Authors” in
London Magazine.
“On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Elgin Marbles. The Ilissus” in
London Magazine.
“On the Fear of Death” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Ideal” in
The Champion.
“On the Ignorance of the Learned” in
Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany.
“On the Knowledge of Character” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Opera” in
Yellow Dwarf.
“On the Pleasures of Painting” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“On the Prose-Style of Poets” in
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
“On the Question whether Pope was a Poet” in
Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany.
“On the Regal Character” in
Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters.
“On the Scotch Character (A Fragment)” in
The Liberal.
“On West's picture of Christ Crucified” in
The Champion.
“Personal Politics” in
Literary Remains of the late William Hazlitt: with Notice of his Life.
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters.
“Pope, Lord Byron, and Mr. Bowles” in
London Magazine.
“Project for a New Theory of Civil and Criminal Legislation” in
Literary Remains of the late William Hazlitt: with Notice of his Life.
“The Periodical Press” in
Edinburgh Review.
“Pulpit Oratory” in
The Liberal.
A Reply to the Essay on Population: in a Series of Letters, to which are
added, Extracts from the Essay, with Notes by the Rev. T. R. Malthus.
The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Literature, Men, and
Manners.
“Schlegel on the Drama” in
Edinburgh Review.
Select Poets of Great Britain. To which are prefixed, Critical Notices of each
Author.
“Shelley's Posthumous Poems” in
Edinburgh Review.
“Sismondi's Literature of the South” in
Edinburgh Review.
Sketches and Essays.
Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England, with a Criticism on
Marriage a-la-mode.
The Spirit of the Age, or, Contemporary Portraits.
“Standard Novels and Romances” in
Edinburgh Review.
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
A View of the English Stage: or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms.
“What is the People?” in
The Champion.
“Whether Genius is Conscious of its Powers?” in
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things.
“Whether the Fine Arts are promoted by Academies?” in
The Champion.
“Why Actors should not sit in the Boxes” in
Table-talk, or, Original Essays.
“Wilson's Life and Times of Daniel Defoe” in
Edinburgh Review.
Winterslow: Essays and Characters written there.
