e Rev. T. R. Malthus_.

_Eloquence of the British Senate_.

1808 Marriage with Sarah Stoddart and settlement at Winterslow.

1810 _A New and Improved Grammar of the English Tongue_.

1812 Removal to London.--Lectures on philosophy at the Russell Institution.

1812-1814 On the staff of the _Morning Chronicle_.

1814 Begins contributing to the _Champion_, _Examiner_, and the
_Edinburgh Review_.

1816 _Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft_.

1817 _The Round Table_.

_The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays_.

1818 _A View of the English Stage_.

_Lectures on the English Poets_. (Delivered at the Surrey
Institution.)

1819 _Lectures on the English Comic Writers_. (Delivered at the Surrey
Institution at the close of 1818.)

_A Letter to William Gifford Esq., from William Hazlitt Esq._

_Political Essays_.

1820 _Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth_.
(Delivered at the Surrey Institution at the close of 1819.)

Joins the staff of the _London Magazine_.

1821-22 _Table Talk, or Original Essays_ (2 volumes).

1822 Episode of Sarah Walker.--Journey to Scotland to obtain a divorce
from his wife.

1823 _Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion_.

_Characteristics in the Manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims_.

1824 _Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries in England_.

_Select British Poets_.

Marriage with Mrs. Bridgewater.--Tour of the Continent.

1825 _The Spirit of the Age_.

1826 _Notes of a Journey through France and Italy_.

_The Plain Speaker, Opinions on Books, Men, and Things_ (2 volumes).

1828-1830 _Life of Napoleon Buonaparte_ (4 volumes).

1830 _Conversations of James Northcote_.

Death of William Hazlitt, September 18.

INTRODUCTION

WILLIAM HAZLITT

I

Hazlitt characterized the age he lived in as "critical, didactic,
paradoxical, romantic."[1] It was the age of the Edinburgh Review, of the
Utilitarians, of Godwin and Shelley, of Wordsworth and Byron--in a word of
the French Revolution and all that it brought in its train. Poetry in this
age was impregnated with politics; ideas for social reform sprang from the
ground of personal sentiment. Hazlitt was born early enough to partake of
the ardent hopes which the last decade of the eighteenth century held out,
but his spirit came to ripeness in years of reaction in which the battle
for reform seemed a lost hope. While