ABSTRACT

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.

part |147 pages

Table-Talk; or, Original Essays

chapter Essay I|8 pages

On the Pleasure of Painting

chapter Essay II|8 pages

The Same Subject Continued

chapter Essay III|9 pages

On the Past and Future

chapter Essay IV|10 pages

On Genius and Common Sense

chapter Essay V|8 pages

The Same Subject Continued

chapter Essay VI|9 pages

Character of Cobbett

chapter Essay VII|10 pages

On People with One Idea

chapter Essay VIII|7 pages

On the Ignorance of the Learned

chapter Essay IX|11 pages

The Indian Jugglers1

chapter Essay X|11 pages

On Living to one's-self*

chapter Essay XI|11 pages

On Thought and Action

chapter Essay XII|8 pages

On Will-Making

chapter Essay XIV|13 pages

The Same Subject Continued

chapter Essay XV|10 pages

On Paradox and Common-Place

chapter Essay XVI|11 pages

On Vulgarity and Affectation

part |147 pages

Table-Talk; or, Original Essays

chapter Essay XVII|6 pages

On a Landscape of Nicolas Poussin

chapter Essay XVIII|7 pages

On Milton's Sonnets

chapter Essay XIX|9 pages

On Going A Journey

chapter Essay XX|14 pages

On Coffee-House Politicians

chapter Essay XXI|9 pages

On the Aristocracy of Letters

chapter Essay XXII|12 pages

On Criticism

chapter Essay XXIII|14 pages

On Great and Little Things

chapter Essay XXIV|6 pages

On Familiar Style

chapter Essay XXV|7 pages

On Effeminacy of Character

chapter Essay XXVI|9 pages

Why Distant Objects Please

chapter Essay XXVIII|8 pages

On Corporate Bodies

chapter Essay XXVIII|7 pages

Whether Actors Ought to Sit in the Boxes?

chapter Essay XXIX|9 pages

On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority

chapter Essay XXX|13 pages

On Patronage and Puffing

chapter Essay XXXI|13 pages

On the Knowledge of Character

chapter Essay XXXII|4 pages

On the Picturesque and Ideal A Fragment

chapter Essay XXXIII|8 pages

On the Fear of Death