Lectures on the English comic writers.
By: By William Hazlitt.
Contributors: Hazlitt, William, 1811-1893, ed.
Edition: 3d ed. Edited by his son ...
Publisher: J. Templeman
Published: 1841
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
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.
Notes: "The lectures forming this volume were delivered at the Surrey Institution in 1818, and published immediately afterwards. The present edition ... contains some additions from other sources."--Prefatory notice.
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, and Farquhar.; title: On the periodical essayists.; title: On the English novelists.; title: On the works of Hogarth.; title: 0n the comic writers of the last century.