Lectures on the English comic writers
By: by William Hazlitt.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Hogarth, William, -- 1697-1764; English wit and humor -- History and criticism; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
Notes: "A Doubleday Dolphin master"--Cover.

Reprint of the 1819 ed. published by Taylor and Hessey, London.
Table of contents: title: Introductory; title: On wit and humour; title: On Shakspeare and Ben Jonson; title: On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, &c.; title: On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh and Farquhar; title: On the periodical essayists; title: On the English novelists; title: On the works of Hogarth; title: On the comic writers of the last century.