Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature

CONTENTS

chapter		page
	Chronology of Hazlitt’s Life and Writings	ix
	Introduction	xi
I.	The Age of Elizabeth	1
II.	Spenser	21
III.	Shakspeare	34
IV.	The Characters of Shakspeare’s Plays
	Cymbeline	50
	Macbeth	60
	Iago	72
	Hamlet	76
	Romeo and Juliet	84
	Midsummernight’s Dream	85
	Falstaff	88
	Twelfth Night	96
V.	Milton	101
VI.	Pope	118
VII.	On the Periodical Essayists	133
VIII.	The English Novelists	155
IX.	Character of Mr. Burke	172
X.	Mr. Wordsworth	191
XI.	Mr. Coleridge	205
XII.	Mr. Southey	216
XIII.	Elia	220
XIV.	Sir Walter Scott	227
XV.	Lord Byron	236
XVI.	On Poetry in General	251
XVII.	My First Acquaintance With Poets	277
XVIII.	On the Conversation of Authors	301
XIX.	Of Persons One Clyx.com