ABSTRACT

Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819); review by Leigh Hunt, Examiner, April 18, 1819, pp. 250–251, and (reprinted from Scotsman), Examiner, June 6, 1819, pp. 362–363. Hunt first reviews his friend’s work and then reprints a favorable notice from the liberal Edinburgh daily paper (founded in 1817).