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

Chapter 3: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
By William Hazlitt
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A sustained set of critical lectures and essays offers definitions of poetry and close readings of English verse and drama, combining aesthetic theory with textual and biographical commentary. The writer articulates poetry’s relation to imagination and feeling, then evaluates major figures—Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Cowper, Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, Burns—and the old ballads, and considers contemporary poets of his day. A separate sequence examines Elizabethan dramatic literature, and a prefatory critical list and notes supply bibliographical guidance and interpretive context.

LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH POETS

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The Lectures on The English Poets. Delivered at the Surrey Institution. By William Hazlitt, were published in 8vo. (8¾ × 5¼), in the year of their delivery, 1818; a second edition was published in 1819, of which the present issue is a reprint. The imprint reads, ‘London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 93, Fleet Street. 1819,’ and the volume was printed by ‘T. Miller, Printer, Noble Street, Cheapside.’ Behind the half-title appears the following advertisement: ‘This day is published, Characters of Shakespear’s Plays, by William Hazlitt. Second Edition, 8vo. price 10s. 6d. boards.’ A four-page advertisement of ‘Books just published by Taylor and Hessey’ ends the volume, with ‘Characters of Shakspeare’s Plays’ at the top, and a notice of it from the Edinburgh Review.

CONTENTS

LECTURE I.
 
PAGE
Introductory.—On Poetry in General 1
 
 
LECTURE II.
 
On Chaucer and Spenser 19
 
 
LECTURE III.
 
On Shakspeare and Milton 44
 
 
LECTURE IV.
 
On Dryden and Pope 68
 
 
LECTURE V.
 
On Thomson and Cowper 85
 
 
LECTURE VI.
 
On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, etc. 104
 
 
LECTURE VII.
 
On Burns, and the Old English Ballads 123
 
 
LECTURE VIII.
 
On the Living Poets 143