ABSTRACT
Extracts from lecture by William Hazlitt (1778–1830), critic and essayist, ‘On Burns, and the Old English Ballads’, delivered at the Surrey Institution in 1818 and published in Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Poets the same year. Text from Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe (1930), V, pp. 127–40 (see No. 62 and Introduction, p. 38).
