Lectures on the English comic writers
By: delivered at the Surry Institution.
Publisher: Russell & Russell
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
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.
Other titles: English comic writers.
Notes: Reprint of the 1819 ed.
Table of contents: title: Introductory: on wit and humour.; title: On Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.; title: On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, &c.; title: On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh & 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.