Description
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.
Table of Contents
Introductory note -- Brief biographical directory of selected personages mentioned, or referred to, by Hazlitt -- Uncollected Essays -- To the Monthly Reviewers (c.804, edited from MS) -- On the Punishment of Death (c. 1812, edited from MS) -- On the Punishment of Death (edited from Fraser's Magazine, 1831) -- Christabel; Kubla Khan, a Vision; the Pains of Sleep. -- By S. T. Coleridge Esq. (1816) -- On the Question whether Pope was a Poet (1818) -- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1818) -- On the Opera (1818) -- Guy Faux (1821) -- The Fight (1822) -- On the Elgin Marbles (1822) -- My First Acquaintance with Poets (1823) -- Judging of Pictures (1823) -- The History of the Caliph Vathek. 1786 (1823) -- Merry England (1825) -- On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth (1827) -- On Reading New Books (1827) -- On a Sun-Dial (1827) -- The Main-Chance (1828) -- Byron and Wordsworth (1828) -- On Cant and Hypocrisy (1828) -- Memorabilia of Mr Coleridge (1829) -- The Free Admission (1830) -- The Sick-Chamber (1830) -- The Letter-Bell (1830) -- Afterword -- Notes -- Books referred to in the notes to volume -- Index.
