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William Hazlitt's Lectures on English Poets
William Hazlitt's Lectures on English Poets
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Author: Hazlitt, William
Title: Lectures on the English Poets
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for Taylor and Hessey
Date Published: 1818
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(8vo) 19th century red straight-grain half calf, marbled paper boards and endpapers, gilt decorated and lettered spine. First Edition.



The first collection of William Hazlitt's famous lectures on English writers and literature, delivered at the Surrey Institution in 1818-1819. This one begins with a lecture "On Poetry in General," and proceeds through Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Cowper, Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, et al., and concludes with a lecture "On the Living Poets": Barbauld, Baillie, Hannah More, Rogers, Campbell, Byron, Moore, Scott, Southey, with the most remarks devoted to Wordsworth and Coleridge. No terminal advertisements.

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Edges rubbed; light foxing and smudges, binder's blank before the half-title becoming detached; very good.
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