Hazlitt's Work, A List:

For us, William Hazlitt is the most distinguish English essayist. Following is a list of the contents of each of the books I possess on Hazlitt.

(LEGEND: ** = a blupete favourite.)

#1 The Eloquence of the British Senate (1808)
§ Murray published The Eloquence of the British Senate in 1808. It was described as, "Best Speeches of the Most Distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary Speakers, From the Beginning of the Reign of Charles I to the Present Time." The speeches were presumably selected by Hazlitt; the book, consisting of two volumes, went into a second edition. "Some of the notes, such as the character of Burke in Vol. II, are in his best style, and lend a special interest to the volumes which they would otherwise not possess." -- Keynes. The first issue was published under Thomas Ostell's imprint, and dated 1807. The sheets were transferred to John Murray, and even had a third incarnation, dated 1812, under the imprint of Cradock and Joy. In 1808, in addition to that of Murray's, the book was published by A. Constable and Co., in Edinburgh. In America, I see from the listings (ABE) where the work was brought out by Thomas Kirk (Brooklyn, NY) in 1809 & in 1810; and by Prior And Dunning (New York), in 1810.

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#2 Round Table (1815-17)
§ Originally the Round Table, a collection of essays having been published in the Examiner [edited by Leigh Hunt] were written by a variety of people, quite a few by Hunt; the original, consisting of two volumes came out in 1817, my volume of the Round Table contains only those essays written by Hazlitt, the editors having considered the rest to be "both inferior and dissimilar to him.") (London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1869).

1. On the Literary Character** (Oct. 28, 1813)
2. On Patriotism. -- A Fragment (Jan. 5, 1814)
3. On Posthumous Fame (May 22, 1814)
4. On Hogarth's Marriage á-la-Mode (June 5, 1814)
5. On Hogarth's Marriage á-la-Mode, Continued (June 19, 1814)
6. Observations on Mr. Wordsworth's poem, "The Excursion" (Aug. 21, 28, 1814)
7. On Religious Hypocrisy** (Oct. 9, 1814)
8. On the Love of Life (Jan. 15, 1815)
9. On Classical Education (Feb. 12, 1815)
10. On The Tatler (March 5, 1815)
11. On the Beggar's Opera (June 18, 1815)
12. On Modern Comedy (Aug. 20, 1815)
13. On Milton's Versification (Aug. 20, 1815)
14. On Manner** (Aug. 27, 1815)
15. On The Tendency Of Sects** (Sep. 10, 1815)
16. On the Causes of Methodism** (Oct. 22, 1815)
17. On the Midsummer Night's Dream (Nov. 26, 1815)
18. On Beauty (Feb. 4, 1816)
19. On Imitation (Feb. 18, 1816)
20. On Pedantry** (March 3, 1816)
21. On Pedantry, Continued** (March 10, 1816)
22. On the Character of Rousseau (April 14, 1816)
23. On Different Sorts of Fame (April 21, 1816)
24. Character of John Bull** (May 19, 1816)
25. On Gusto (May 26, 1816)
26. On Good Nature** (June 9, 1816)
27. On the Character of Milton's Eve (July 21, 1816)
28. On Common-place Critics** (Nov. 24, 1816)
29. On Actors and Acting (Jan. 5, 1817)

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#3 Lectures on the English Poets (1818) (Oxford University Press, 1933)

1. Lecture
   Intro. -- On Poetry in General
2. Lecture
   On Chaucer and Spenser
3. Lecture
   On Shakespeare and Milton
4. Lecture
   On Dryden and Pope
5. Lecture
   On Thompson and Cowper
6. Lecture
   On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, etc.
7. Lecture
   On Burns, and the Old English Ballads
8. Lecture
   On The Living Poets

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#4 Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819), and
Miscellaneous Essays ("Fugitive Writings):
§ This work is a collection of Hazlitt's contributions to the "New Monthly" and to the "Monthly" magazines." My edition (London: Dent, Everyman's Lib., 1913) has an introduction by W.E.Henley (3 pages) and a list of published works.

Lectures:

I. Intro. - On Wit and Humour (1818)

II. On Shakespeare and Ben Jonson

III. On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, etc.

IV. On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar

V. On the Periodical Essayists

VI. On English Novelists

VII. On the works of Hogarth. On the Grand and Familiar Style of Painting

VIII. On the Comic Writers of the Last Century

Misc. Essays:

(1) The Fight** (One of Hazlitt's most celebrated essays, it first appeared in the New Monthly Magazine, February, 1822. The "Joe" to whom Hazlitt refers to in this essay, according to Birrell, is Joseph Parkes, a solicitor.

(2) Merry England

(3) Of Persons One Would Wish To Have Seen (Jan.,1826)

(4) On a Sun-dial (Oct.,1827)

(5) Why the Heroes of Romance are Insipid

(6) The Shyness of Scholars

(7) The Main Chance

(8) Self Love and Benevolence

(9) The Same Subject Continued

(10 The Free Admission Written in 1830, during his last days.

(11) The Sick Chamber Also, written in 1830, during his last days.

(12) Footmen (Also appears in #13.)

(13) On the Want of Money** (Jan.,1827)

(14) On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth** (Mar.1827)

(15) On Reading Old Books

(16) On Disagreeable People** (Aug.,1827)

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#5 Political Essays (1819):
§ (Oxford: Woodstock, 1990).

1. Preface**
2. The Marquis Wellesley (April, 1813)
3. Mr. Southey, Poet Laureat (September, 1813)
4. Mr. Southey's New Year Ode (January, 1814)
5. Dottrel-catching (January, 1814)
6. The Bourbons and Buonaparte (December, 1813)
7. Vetus (November, 1813)
8. On the Courier and Times Newspapers (January, 1814)
9. Illustrations of Vetus (December, 1813 & January, 1814)
10. On the Late War (April, 1814)
11. Prince Maurice's Parrot (September, 1814)
12. Whether the Friends of Freedom can Entertain ... (October, 1814)
13. The Lay of the Laureate (July, 1816)
14. Mr. Owen's "New View of Society," (August, 1816) **
15. Speeches of Charles C. Western, Esq. M. P. and Henry Brougham, Esq. M.P. (March, April & December; 1816) **
16. Mr. Coleridge Lay Sermon (September, 1816)
17. ----- Statesman's Manual (December, 1816)
18. ----- Lay Serman (January, 1817)
19. Bonaparte and Müller (no date given)
20. Illustrations of 'The Times' Newspaper (December, 1816 & January, 1817)
21. Mr. Macirone's "Interesting Facts relating to the Fall and Death of Joachim Murat, King of Naples." (February & February, 1817)
22. Wat Tyler and the Quarterly Review (March, 1817)
23. The Courier and The Wat Tyler (March, 1817)
24. Mr. Southey's Letter to William Smith, Esq. (May, 1817)
25. On the Spy System (June, 1817)
26. On the Treatment of State Prisoners (July, 1817)
27. The Opposition and the Courier (July, 1817)
28. England in 1798, by S. T. Coleridge (August, 1817)
29. On the Effects of War and Taxes (August, 1817) **
30. Character of Mr. Burke (October, 1817)
31. On Court Influence(January, 1818)
32. On the Clerical Character (January & February, 1818)
33. What is the People? (March, 1818)
34. On the Regal Character (May, 1818)
35. The Fudge Family of Paris (April, 1818)
36. Character of Lord Chatham (1807)
37. Character of Burke (1807)
38. Character of Fox (1807) **
39. Character of Mr Pitt (1806)
40. Pitt and Buonaparte (1800)
41. An Examination of Mr. Malthus's Doctrines (no date given)
42. On the Originality of Mr. Malthus's Essay (no date given)
43. On the Principles of Population as affecting the Schemes of Utopian Improvement (no date given)
44. On the Application of Mr. Malthus's Principle to the Poor Laws (no date given)
45. Queries relating to the Essay on Population (no date given)

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#6 Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1820) / Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1817):
§ in one volume (London: Bell, Bohn's; 1909).

Lectures:

I. Intro.

II. On Lyly, Marlowe, Heywood, Middleton, and Rowley

III. On Marston, Chapman, Decker, and Webster

IV. On Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Ford and Massinger

V. On single Plays, Poems, etc.

VI. On Misc. Poems; Beaumont, Fletcher, Drayton, Daniel, etc.; Sir P. Sidney

VII. Character of Bacon's Works - Compared as to the style with Sir. Thomas Browne and Jeremy Taylor

VIII. On the Spirit of Ancient and Modern Literature - German Drama contrasted

Characters of Shakespear's Plays:

1. Preface
2. Cymbeline
3. Macbeth (Also appears in #18 & #19.)
4. Julius Caesar
5. Othello
6. Timon of Athens
7. Coriolanus (Also appears in #19.)
8. Troilus and Chressida
9. Anthony and Cleopatra
10. Hamlet (Also appears in #18.)
11. The Tempest
12. A Midsummer Night's Dream
13. Romeo and Juliet
14. Lear
15. Richard II.
16. Henry IV., Part I. and II. (Also appears in #18.)
17. Henry V.
18. Henry VI., in Three Plays
19. Richard III.
20. Henry VIII.
21. King John
22. Twelfth Night; or What You Will
23. The Two Gentlemen of Verona
24. The Merchant of Venice
25. The Winter's Tale
26. All's well that Ends Well
27. Love's Labour's Lost
28. Much Ado About Nothing
29. As You Like It
30. The Taming of the Shrew
31. Measure for Measure
32. The Merry Wives of Windsor
33. The comedy of Errors
34. Doubtful Plays of Shakespear
35. Poems and Sonnets

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#7 Table Talk, Essays on Men and Manners** (1822),
§ (London: Bell, Bohn's; 1910).

1. On The Pleasure of Painting (Dec.,1820)

2. On the Past and Future

3. On Genius and Common Sense**

4. On the Character of Cobbett (1821)

5. On People with One Idea

6. On the Ignorance of the Learned (Jul.,1818)

7. On the Indian Jugglers

8. On Living to One's Self** (Jan.,1821)

9. On Thought and Action

10. On Will Making

11. On Certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynold's Discourses

12. On Paradox and Common-Place

13. On Vulgarity and Affectation

14. On Landscape of Nicholas Poussin

15. On Milton's Sonnets

16. On Going on a Journey (Jan.,1822)

17. On Coffee-House Politicians

18. On the Aristocracy of Letters

19. On Criticism

20. On Great and Little Things (Feb.,1822)

21. On Familiar Style (1821)

22. On Effeminacy of Character

23. Why Distant Objects Please (1822)

24. On Corporate Bodies

25. Whether Actors Ought to Sit in the Boxes

26. On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority

27. On Patronage and Puffing

28. On the Knowledge of Character (1822)

29. On the Picturesque and Ideal

30. On the Fear of Death** (1822)

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#8 Liber Amoris (1823):
§ (London: The Hogarth Press, 1985); Contemporary Intro. (6 pages) by Michael Neve, 1893 Intro. (47 pages) by Richard Le Gallienne; Appendices; Publisher's Note, dealing with the "composition and publication history of the book." This, in my opinion, is not a great work; I think Hazlitt was love sick at the time. See a short extract from this work, Unaltered Love & Perfect Love

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#9 The Spirit of the Age** (1825):
§ (Oxford University Press, 1970). This, Birrell thinks, is Hazlitt's "best book."

1. Jeremy Bentham**

2. William Godwin**

3. Mr. Coleridge**

4. Rev. Mr. Irving

5. Mr. Horne Tooke

6. Sir Walter Scott

7. Lord Byron**

8. Mr. Southey**

9. Mr. Wordsworth

10. Sir James MacKintosh

11. Mr. Malthus

12. The Right Hon. George Canning

13. Mr. Gifford

14. Mr. Jeffrey**

15. Mr. Brougham - Sir F. Burdett**

16. Lord Eldon and Mr. Wilberforce

17. Mr. Cobbett**

18. Mr. Campbell and Mr. Crabbe

19. Mr. T. Moore - Mr. Leigh Hunt

20. Elia, and Geoffrey Craydon**

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#10 Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1824) (London: Hunt & Clarke, 1826).

1. Chapter
   Brighton, the Channel, Dieppe, etc.
2. Chapter
   Normany, Rouen, etc.
3. Chapter
   Lord Byron, Mr. Moore, etc.
4. Chapter
   The Louvre.
5. Chapter
   The Theatre, etc.
6. Chapter
   Modern French Pictures.
7. Chapter
   The Luxembourg Gallery.
8. Chapter
   Cemetery of Pére la Chaise, etc.
9. Chapter
   French actors, etc.
10. Chapter
    Description of Paris, etc.
11. Chapter
    French Sculpture. Note on the Elgin Marbles.
12. Chapter
    Opera, etc.
13. Chapter
    On the Road to Lyons, French Girls, French Translation of Tom Jones, etc.
14. Chapter
    Set out for Turin by Way of Mont Cenis, First view of the Alps, Chambery, Susa, etc.
15. Chapter
    Turin, Italian Peasants, Parma, Bologna, etc.
16. Chapter
    Florence, etc.
17. Chapter
    Benvenuto Cellini, etc.
18. Chapter
    San Lorenzo, Lake of Bolsena, etc.
19. Chapter
    Rome, etc.
20. Chapter
    Character of the English, etc.
21. Chapter
    Italian Banditti, Tivoli, etc.
22. Chapter
    Venice, etc.
23. Chapter
    Milan, Verona, etc.
24. Chapter
    The passage over the Simplon, etc.
25. Chapter
    Geneva, Lausanne, etc.
26. Chapter
    Down the Rhine through Holland, etc.

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#11 The Plain Speaker (1826); With notes by A. R. Waller & Arnold Glover; Intro. (3 pages) by P. P. Howe (London: Dent, Everyman's Lib., 1928).

I. On the Prose Style of Poets (Aug.,1822)

II. On Dreams (~1826)

III. On the Conversations of Authors (Sep.,1820)

V. On Reason and Imagination (~1826)

VI. On Application to Study (~1826)

VII. On Londoners and Country People (~1826)

VIII. On the Spirit of Obligations (Jan.,1824)

IX. On the Old Age of Artists (~1826)

X. On Envy (A Dialogue) (~1826)

XI. On Sitting for one's Picture (Nov.,1823)

XII. Whether Genius is conscious of its Powers? (Jun.,1823)

XIII. On the Pleasure of Hating (1826)

XIV. On Dr. Spurzheim's Theory

XV. On Egotism

XVI. Hot and Cold (1826)

XVII. The New School of Reform (A Dialogue between a Rationalist and a sentimentalist)

XVIII. On the Qualifications Necessary to Success in Life** (1826)

XIX. On the Look of a Gentleman

XX. On Reading Old Books (Feb.,1821)

XXI. On Personal Character (Mar.,1821)

XXII. On People of Sense

XXIII. On Antiquity

XXIV. On the Difference between Writing and Speaking (1825)

XXV. On a Portrait of an English Lady, by Vandyke

XXVI. On Novelty and Familiarity

XXVII. On Old English Writers and Speakers (Jan.,1825)

XXVIII. Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars

XXIX. Sir Walter Scott, Racine, and Shakespear

XXX. On Depth and Superficiality (1826)

XXXI. On Respectable People

XXXII. On Jealousy and Spleen of Party

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#12 Life of Napoleon (1828-30) (London: Effingham Wilson & Chapman and Hall, four vols, 1830.)
§ This work of Hazlitt's, the only major work (he was an essayist) "has not endured.") [Side note: Some saw Napoleon, as I dare say Hazlitt did, as "the mighty missionary of liberalism, the destroyer of serfdom, the enemy of legitimacy, the man who made hereditary princelings tremble..." (Bertrand Russell.)]

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#13 Winterslow, Essays and Characters Written There (Oxford University Press, 1906.)
§ A selection likely made by Hazlitt's son, William with a two page introduction by him.

I. My first acquaintance with Poets (Apr.1827)

II. Of Persons One Would Wish To Have Seen

III. On the Party Spirit

IV. On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth** (Mar.1827)

V. On Public Opinion (1830)

VI. On Personal Identity

VII. Mind and Motive

VIII. On Means and Ends

IX. Matter and Manner

X. On Consistency of Opinion

XI. Project for a New Theory of Civil and Criminal Legislation**

XII. Character of Burke

XIII. Character of Fox **

XIV. Character of Mr Pitt

XV. Character of Lord Chatham

XVI. Belief, Whether Voluntary?

XVII. A Farewell to Essay-writing (Mar.,1828)

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#14 Sketches and Essays:
§ (London: Richards, 1903).

1. On Reading New Books
2. On Cant and Hypocrisy**
3. Merry England
4. On a Sun-dial
5. On Prejudice**
6. Self Love and Benevolence
7. On Disagreeable People
8. On Knowledge of the World
9. On Fashion
10. On Nicknames
11. On Taste
12. Why Heroes of Romance are Insipid
13. On the Conversation of Lords
14. The Letter Bell
15. On Envy (A Dialogue)
16. On the Spirit of Partisanship
17. Footmen
18. A Chapter on Editors

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#15 Selected Essays of William Hazlitt Geoffrey Keynes, Ed.; (London: Nonsuch Press, 1930).

From The Round Table (Says Keynes):
> On the Love of the Country (Nov., 1814)
> On the Love of Life (Jan., 1815)
> On Common-place Critics (Nov., 1816)
> Why the Arts are not progressive: A Fragment (Jan., 1814)
> On Gusto (May, 1816)
> On Actors and Acting (Jan., 1817)
From Table Talk:
> On The Pleasure of Painting (Dec.,1820)
> On the Character of Cobbett (1821)
> On the Ignorance of the Learned (Jul.,1818)
> On Living to One's Self** (Jan.,1821)
> On Going on a Journey (Jan.,1822)
> On Great and Little Things** (Feb.,1822)
> On Familiar Style (1821)
> Why Distant Objects Please (1822)
> On the Knowledge of Character (1822)
> On the Fear of Death** (1822)
From The Plain Speaker:
> On the Prose Style of Poets (Aug.,1822)
> On the Conversations of Authors (Sep.,1820)
> On the Spirit of Obligations (Jan.,1824)
> On Sitting for one's Picture (Nov.,1823)
> Whether Genius is conscious of its Powers? (Jun.,1823)
> On the Pleasure of Hating (1826)
> Hot and Cold (1826)
> On Reading Old Books (Feb.,1821)
> On Personal Character (Mar.,1821)
> On the Difference between Writing and Speaking (1825)
> On Old English Writers and Speakers (Jan.,1825)
> On Depth and Superficiality (1826)
From English Comic Writers:
> Intro. - On Wit and Humour (1818)
> The Fight**
> Of Persons One Would Wish To Have Seen (Jan.,1826)
> On a Sun-dial (Oct.,1827)
> On the Want of Money** (Jan.,1827)
> On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth** (Mar.1827)
> On Disagreeable People** (Aug.,1827)
From Literary Remains:
> On the Conduct of Life** (1822)
> On the Spirit of Monarchy** (Jan.,1823)
Characteristics:
> Characteristics (1823)
Principal Picture Galleries in England:
> Oxford (Nov.,1823)
> The Dulwich Gallery (Jan.,1823)
Notes of a Journey through France and Italy:
> The Entrance into Italy (Apr.,1825)
> The Englishman (1826)
Sketches and Essays:
> The Letter Bell (Mar.,1831)
> On Cant and Hypocrisy** (Dec.,1828)
Life of Napoleon:
> The French Revolution (1828)
> The Death of the Emperor Napoleon (1830)
Lectures on the English Poets:
> On Poetry in General (1818)
> Coleridge (1818)
From Winterslow:
> My first acquaintance with Poets (Apr.1827)
> On Public Opinion (1830)
> A Farewell To Essay-Writing (Mar.,1828)
Lectures on the Literature Eliz.:
> Disappointment (1820)
View of the English Stage:
> Mrs. Siddons (Jun.,1816)
Eloquence of the British Senate:
> Edmund Burke (1807)
The Spirit of the Age:
> Mr. Coleridge** (1825)
> Mr. Wordsworth (1825)
> Mr. Gifford (1825)
> Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon (1825)
Political Essays:
> On the Clerical Character (Jan.-Feb., 1818)

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#16 The Best of Hazlitt; P. P. Howe, Ed.; (London: Methuen, 1947).

From Winterslow:

I. My first acquaintance with Poets (Apr.1827)

XVII. A Farewell To Essay-Writing (Mar.,1828)

From Table Talk

1. On The Pleasure of Painting (Dec.,1820)

4. On the Character of Cobbett (1821)

6. On the Ignorance of the Learned (Jul.,1818)

7. On the Indian Jugglers

16. On Going on a Journey (Jan.,1822)

21. On Familiar Style (1821)

From The Plain Speaker:

III. On the Conversations of Authors (Sep.,1820)

IV. The Same Subject Continued

(1) The Fight**

(2) Merry England

(4) On a Sun-dial (Oct.,1827)

From Which Work ????:

Conversations as Good as Real

Characteristics:

Characteristics (1823)

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#17 New Writings by William Hazlitt:
§ Selected and edited by the noted expert on Hazlitt, P. P. Howe, this book contains essays either over looked or not previously discovered written between the years 1828-30. "The reader who may be new to Hazlitt will bear in mind that what is here offered are merely the crumbs from the rich man's table.") (London: Martin Secker, 1925).

Travelling Abroad (23)
1. The Influence of Books on the Progress of Manners
2. The Prose Album
3. The Modern Gradus ad Parnassum
4. Mr. Landor's 'Imaginary Conversations'
5. Grave Imposture
6. A Stuffed Man
7. Brummelliana (Also appears in #19.)
8. Mr. Cobbett and the Quakers
9. Mr. Jeffrey and Mr. Owen
10. The First Meeting Between Fox and Grattan
11. The Late Murders
12. The Ruling Passion
13. Pope Benedict
14. Butts of Different Sorts
15. Burke and the Edinburgh Phrenologists
16. Phrenological Fallacies
17. The Champions of Phrenology
18. Common Fame
19. Lord North
20. Old Cloaks
21. Coquets
22. The Waverley Notes
23. Mr. Jeffrey's Resignation of the Editorship of the 'Edinburgh Review'
24. Autographs
25. English Characteristics (Also appears in #19.)
26. The Utilitarian Controversy
27. The Laureate
28. The Exclusionists in Taste
29. Covent Garden Theatre
30. Our National Theatres (Also appears in #19.)
31. A Newspaper Sketch
32. Notes and Index

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#18 Hazlitt's Essays Introduction by Herbert Paul (London: Cassell, nd).
From Winterslow:
> My first acquaintance with Poets (Apr.1827)
From Essays in back of Eng Comic Writers (#3):
> Merry England
> Of Persons One Would Wish To Have Seen (Jan.,1826)
> On a Sun-dial (Oct.,1827)
> On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth** (Mar.1827)
> On Disagreeable People** (Aug.,1827)
From Table Talk:
> On the Indian Jugglers
> On Living to One's Self** (Jan.,1821)
> On Going on a Journey (Jan.,1822)
> Why Distant Objects Please (1822)

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#19 Essays & Characters (1817) Stanley Williams, Ed.; (London: Nelson, nd).
From The Round Table:
> On Actors and Acting, Parts I & II (Jan.,1817)
Lectures on the English Poets:
> On Shakespear and Milton (1818)
From Essays in back of Eng Comic Writers:
> The Fight**
> Merry England
> Of Persons One Would Wish To Have Seen (Jan.,1826)
> On a Sun-dial (Oct.,1827)
Lectures on the Literature Eliz.:
> Macbeth
> Hamlet
> Henry IV
From Table Talk:
> On The Pleasure of Painting (Dec.,1820)
> On the Character of Cobbett (1821)
> On the Indian Jugglers
> On Landscape of Nicholas Poussin
> On Going on a Journey (Jan.,1822)
> On Familiar Style (1821)
From The Spirit of the Age:
> Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon (1825)
> Mr. Coleridge (1825)
From The Plain Speaker:
> On the Conversations of Authors (Sep.,1820)
> The Same Subject Continued
> On Reading Old Books (Feb.,1821)
From Winterslow:
> My first acquaintance with Poets (Apr.1827)
From Sketches and Essays:
> The Letter Bell (Mar.,1831)

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#20 William Hazlitt, Selected Writings; Edited and with Introduction by Jon Cook; (Oxford University Press, 1991).
From The Round Table:
> On Modern Comedy
> Why the Arts are not progressive: A Fragment (Jan.,1814)
> On Gusto (May,1816)
> Lectures on the English Poets
> On Poetry in General (1818)
> Shakespear
English Comic Writers:
> The Fight**
> The Main Chance
> Self Love and Benevolence
Political Essays:
> What is the People? (1817)
> Illustrations of 'The Times' Newspaper
Lectures on the Literature Eliz.:
> Macbeth
> Coriolanus
From Table Talk:
> On the Indian Jugglers
Life of Napoleon:
> The French Revolution (1828)
> ... (An extract)
From Winterslow:
> My first acquaintance with Poets (Apr.1827)
> On Public Opinion (1830)
> On Personal Identity
> Mind and Motive
> On Consistency of Opinion
Eloquence of the British Senate:
> Edmund Burke
Political Essays:
> On the Originality of Mr Malthus's Essay Characteristics:
> Characteristics (1823)
> View of the English Stage
> Edmund Kean
> The Spirit of the Age
> Mr. Wordsworth (1825)
Which Work??:
> Modern Tragedy
> On Fashion (1818)
> Our National Theatres (1829)
> English Characteristics (1829)
> Brummelliana (1828)
> Whether the Fine Arts are Promoted by Academics
> Originality

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#21 Hazlitt Painted by Himself by one of Hazlitt's biographers, Catherine Macdonald Maclean (London, Temple, 1948.)

1. My Father**
2. My Childhood at Wem (1787-90)
3. Adolescence** (1790-93)
4. Student Days and Mrs. Siddons (1793-95)
5. Coleridge (1798)
6. On the Way to Wordsworth (1798)
7. De L'Amour
8. The Louvre (1802)
9. The Pleasure of Painting (1803-05) (This has been compared with that which is set out at #6; same subject with some of the same sentences, but a different essay.)
10. Reply to Malthus (1807)
11. My first Visit to Winterslow (1808)
12. Winterslow (1808-12)
13. Edmund Kean from View of the English Stage (1814) (Also appears in #19.)
14. Reaction after Waterloo (1815-20)
15. Death of my Father (1820)
16. Sarah (1820-22)
17. The Louvre from Notes of a Journey through France and Italy (1824)
18. Human Liberty (1789-1830)

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Biographies:

Wm Hazlitt (1902); by Augustine Birrell (London: MacMillan, 1902)

The Life of William Hazlitt (1922); by P. P. Howe; (Penguin, 1949)

Born Under Saturn; by Catherine Macdonald Maclean; (London, Collins, 1943)

Hazlitt: A Life; by Stanley Jones; (Oxford University Press, 1989)

Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic; by David Bromwich (1951- ); (Oxford University Press, 1991)

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