Selected writings
By: William Hazlitt ; edited with an introduction and notes by Jon Cook.
Contributors: Cook, Jon.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Work titles: Selections.
Notes: "Select bibliography": p. [xl]-xlii.
Table of contents: value: What is the people?; value: On consistency of opinion; value: Illustrations of 'The times' newspaper; value: Character of Mrs. Burke; value: Malthus; value: French revolution; value: On modern comedy; value: The fight; value: Indian jugglers; value: On public opinion; value: On fashion; value: Our national theatres; value: English characteristics; value: Brummelliana; value: Self-love and benevolence; value: Mind and motive; value: On personal identity; value: Characteristics; value: My first aquaintance with poets; value: from: The life of Napoleon; value: Edmund Kean; value: from: Liber amoris: conclusion; value: Fragments on art ; Why the arts are not progressive ; Whether the fine arts are promoted by academics; value: On gusto; value: Originality; value: On the Elgin marbles; value: Hogarth; value: On poetry in general; value: Shakespeare's Macbeth ; Coriolanus; value: Mr. Wordsworth.