The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 1

Duncan Wu, Tom Paulin, David Bromwich, Stanley Jones, Roy Park

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781138763203
• eBook ISBN: 9781000749120
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

BOOKS REFERRED TO IN THE NOTES TO VOLUME 1

This list does not repeat details of items listed on the Abbreviations page or in the notes.

• Beattie, James, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius: and Other Poems (1816)
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. F. N. Robinson (2nd edn., Oxford, 1974)
• Congreve, William, The Complete Plays of William Congreve, ed. Herbert Davis (Chicago, 1967)
• Cowley, Abraham, Essays, Plays and Sundry Verses, ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge, 1906)
• Cowper, William, The Poems of William Cowper, ed. John D. Baird and Charles Ryskamp (3 vols., Oxford, 1980–95)
• Denham, Sir John, The Poetical Works of Sir John Denham, ed. Theodore Howard Banks (2nd edn., New York, 1969)
• Dryden, John, Poems, ed. James Kinsley (4 vols., Oxford, 1958)
• Gray, Thomas, and William Collins, Poetical Works, ed. Roger Lonsdale (Oxford, 1977)
• Leigh Hunt, James Henry, The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt, ed. H. S. Milford (Oxford, 1923)
• Milton, John, The Poems of Milton, ed. John Carey and Alastair Fowler (Harlow, 1968)
• Pope, Alexander, Imitations of Horace, ed. John Butt (2nd edn., London and New Haven, 1961)
• Pope, Alexander, Pastoral Poetry and An Essay on Criticism, ed. E. Audra and Aubrey Williams (London and New Haven, 1961)
• Pope, Alexander, The Dunciad, ed. James Sutherland (3rd edn., London and New Haven, 1963)
• Prior, Matthew, Poems on Several Occasions, ed. A. R. Waller (Cambridge, 1941)
• Thomson, James, Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and Other Poems, ed. James Sambrook (Oxford, 1986)
• Shakespeare, William, The Riverside Shakespeare: Second Edition, ed. G. Blakemore Evans with the assistance of J. J. M. Tobin (Boston and New York, 1997)
• Wordsworth, William, Poems in Two Volumes, and Other Poems, 1800–1807, ed. Jared Curtis (Ithaca, NY, 1985)
• Wordsworth, William, Shorter Poems, 1807–1820, ed. Carl H. Ketcham (Ithaca, NY, 1989)
• Wordsworth, William, The Borderers, ed. Robert Osborn (Ithaca, NY, 1982)
• Young, Edward, Night Thoughts, ed. Stephen Cornford (Cambridge, 1989)

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• CONTENTS
• Contents of the edition
• List of abbreviations
• General introduction
• Editor’s introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Introductory notes
• An Essay on the Principles of Human Action
• Characters of Shakespear’s plays
• Appendix: Hazlitt’s Review of Schlegel
• Notes
• Books referred to in the notes to volume 1