The William Hazlitt Page

( 1778-1830 )

To be struck with incongruity in whatever comes before us, does not argue great comprehension or refinement of perception, but rather a looseness and flippancy of mind and temper, which prevents the individual from connecting any two ideas steadily or consistently together.

Major Works
Hazlitt's Selected Writings, edited by Ronald Blythe, is available from Penguin. It is a nearly perfect complement to the four volumes of Hazlitt's writings published in the old Everyman series.
The Round Table ( 1817 ). Twelve of the fifty-two essays in this collection were written by Leigh Hunt.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays ( 1817 ).
A View of the English Stage ( 1818 ).
Lectures on the English Poets ( 1818 ).
Lectures on the English Comic Writers ( 1819 ).
Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth ( 1820 ).
Table Talk ( 1821-22 ).
Liber Amoris ( 1823 ).
The Spirit of the Age; or, Contemporary Portraits ( 1825 ).
The Plain Speaker ( 1826 ).
The Life of Napoleon ( 1828-30 ).
The Letters of William Hazlitt. Edited by Herschel M. Sikes. New York U., 1978.

About Hazlitt
Herschel Baker, William Hazlitt. Harvard, 1962.
A Hazlitt Page . Has biographical sketch, some essays, an annotated list of works.

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