OB ZEITLIN.

February 20, 1913.

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 WOULD WISH TO HAVE SEEN 315

XX. ON READING OLD BOOKS 333

NOTES 349

CHRONOLOGY OF HAZLITT'S LIFE AND WRITINGS

1778 William Hazlitt born at Maidstone in Kent, April 10.

1783-1786 Residence in America.

1787 ff. Residence at Wem in Shropshire.

1793-1794 Student in the Hackney Theological College.

1798 Meeting with Coleridge and Wordsworth.

1798?-1805 Study and practice of painting.

1802 Visit to Paris.

1805 _Essay on the Principles of Human Action_.

1806 _Free Thoughts on Public Affairs_.

1807 _An Abridgment of the Light of Nature Revealed, by Abraham Tucker_.

_Reply to the Essay on Population by th