Lectures on the English comic writers.
Subtitle: Delivered at the Surry Institution.
By: By William Hazlitt ...
Publisher: Taylor and Hessey
Published: 1819
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.; English wit and humor.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Other titles: English comic writers.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introductory. On wit and humour.; title: 2. On Shakspeare and Ben Jonson.; title: 3. On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, etc.; title: 4. On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar.; title: 5. On the periodical essayists.; title: 6. On the English novelists.; title: 7. On the works of Hogarth.; title: 8. On the comic writers of the last century.