ABSTRACT

Hazlitt, View of the English Stage (1818); British Critic, 2nd Series, X (Oct. 1818), 441-445. The social snobbery of the first paragraph has a quite different effect on the modern reader of egalitarian views from that the reviewer intended. The reviewer concedes, however, that Hazlitt does have a popular following. Characteristically, the British Critic assigned Hazlitt’s dramatic criticism for review by someone who had seen no plays for several years (p. 442) and who considers the Spectator the model of prose style (p. 445).