Lectures on the English comic writers
By: by William Hazlitt; with an introduction by R. Brimley Johnson.
Contributors: Hazlitt, William, 1811-189
Series: The World's classics, 124
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London; New York [etc.]
Subjects: Hogarth, William, 1697-176; English wit and humor -- History and criticis; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticis; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticis
Other titles: English comic writer
Table of contents: title: Introductory: On wit and humour. - On Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. - On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, etc. - On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. - On the periodical essayists. - On the English novelists. - On the works of Hogarth: on the grand and familiar style of painting. - On the comic writers of the last centur