The
Collected Works of William Hazlitt
Edited by A. R. Waller and
Arnold Glover
With an Introduction by W.
E. Henley
12 vols.
First published thus, 1902-04.
First published thus, 1902-04.
Vol. 1: xxxiv+460 pp. Introduction
by William Ernest Henley [vii-xxv]. Editors’ Preface [xxvii-xxviii]. Notes
[415-60].
Vol. 2: 441 pp. Notes [421-41].
Vol. 3: 467 pp. Notes [429-67].
Vol. 4: 432 pp. Notes [397-432].
Vol. 5: 414 pp. Notes [381-414].
Vol. 6: 523 pp. Notes [467-523].
Vol. 7: 517 pp. Notes [477-517].
Vol. 8: 561 pp. Notes [487-548]. Appendix [551-61].
Vol. 9: 491 pp. Notes [437-85]. Appendix [487-91].
Vol. 10: 434 pp. Notes [401-34].
Vol. 11: xi+611 pp. Bibliographical Note [v-viii]. Notes
[561-611].
Vol. 12: viii+515 pp. Bibliographical Note [v-vi].
Notes, Addenda to Notes [471-507]. Index to the Titles of Hazlitt’s Writings
[508-15].
CONTENTS
[In square brackets: relevant bibliographical
information from the editors’ Notes. Used abbreviations: major works: EPHA = An Essay
on the Principles of Human Action (1805, 1836); FTPA = Free Thoughts on Public Affairs (1806); ARM = A Reply to the Essay on Population,
by the Rev. T. R. Malthus (1807); EBS = The
Eloquence of the British Senate (1807), ed. WH; RT = The Round Table (1817, 1871); CSP = Characters of Shakespear’s Plays (1817); AVES = A View of the English Stage (1818); LECW
= Lectures on the English Comic Writers
(1818); LEP = Lectures on the English Poets (1818); PE = Political Essays (1819); TT = Table Talk (1821-22), 2 vols.; SPP = Sketches of the Principal Picture-Galleries
in England (1824); SA = The Spirit of
the Age (1825); PS = The Plain Speaker
(1826), 2 vols.; edited by WH’s son:
LR = Literary Remains (1836), SE = Sketches and Essays (1839), W = Winterslow (1839), CA = Criticisms on Art (1843-4); others: EC = Essayist and Critic (1889), ed. Alexander Ireland; EFA = Essays on the Fine Arts (1873), ed. WH’s
grandson.]
The Round Table
[1817, 1st edn., 2 vols., 52 essays, 12 of
them by Leigh Hunt; 1841, 3rd edn., 1 vol., ed. WH’s son, many
omissions, some additions; 1871, ed. WH’s grandson, omissions restored; Hunt’s
essays are omitted here; all essays first published in The Examiner unless otherwise noted.]
Bibliographical Note
Advertisement to the Edition of 1817 [Jan 5 1817]
On the Love of Life [15 Jan 1815, “The Round Table”
No. 3]
On Classical Education [12 Feb 1815, “The Round
Table” No. 7; first 3 paragraphs from Morning Chronicle, 25 Sep 1813]
On the Tatler [5 Mar 1815, “The Round Table” No. 10;
LECW, V, largely the same]
On Modern Comedy [20 Aug 1815, “Theatrical Examiner”;
LECW, VIII, largely the same; originally a letter to Morning Chronicle, 25 Sep 1813]
On Mr. Kean’s lago [24 Jul 1814, a few alterations;
repr. in AVES, used also in CSP]
On the Love of the Country [27 Nov 1814,
“Commonplaces” No. 3; used in LEP, V.]
On Posthumous Fame. Whether Shakspeare was influenced
by a Love of it? [22 May 1814]
On Hogarth’s Marriage a-la-mode [5 Jun 1814, subst.
repr. in LECW, VII, and SPP]
The Subject continued [19 Jun 1814, subst. repr. in
LECW, VII, and SPP]
On Milton
On Milton
On Manner [27 Aug & 3 Sep 1815, “The Round Table”
Nos. 17 & 18 (abridged); W: No. 18 as “Matter and Manner”; see also vol. 11]
On the Tendency of Sects [10 Sep 1815, “The Round
Table” No. 19]
On John Buncle [17 Sep 1815, “The Round Table” No. 20]
On the Causes of Methodism [22 Oct 1815, “The Round
Table” No. 22]
On the Midsummer Night’s Dream [26 Nov 1815, “The
Round Table” No. 26; subst. repr. in CSP]
On the Beggar’s Opera [18 Jun 1815]
On Patriotism – A Fragment [5 Jan 1814, Morning Chronicle, from “Illustrations
of Vetus”; PE]
On Beauty [4 Feb 1816, “The Round Table” No. 29,
signed “An Amateur”]
On Imitation [18 Feb 1816, “The Round Table” No. 30]
On Gusto [26 May 1816, “The Round Table” No. 40]
On Pedantry [3 Mar 1816, “The Round Table” No. 32]
The same Subject continued [10 Mar 1816, “The Round
Table” No. 33]
On the Character of Rousseau [14 Apr 1816, “The Round
Table” No. 36]
On Different Sorts of Fame [21 Apr 1816, “The Round
Table” No. 37]
Character of John Bull [19 May 1816, “The Round
Table” No. 39]
On Good-Nature [9 Jun 1816, “The Round Table” No. 41]
On the Character of Milton’s Eve [21 Jul 1816; “The
Round Table” No. 42, occasional passages from No. 43; used in CSP, “Cymbeline”,
“Othello”, “Winter’s Tale”]
Observations on Mr. Wordsworth's Poem The Excursion [21
& 28 Aug 1814]
The same Subject continued [2 Oct 1814]
Character of the late Mr. Pitt [written in 1806; FTPA,
EBS, PE, W]
On Religious Hypocrisy [9 Oct 1814, “Commonplaces”
No. 1]
On the Literary Character [28 Oct 1813, Morning Chronicle, “Baron Grimm and the Edinburgh
On Common-place Critics [24 Nov 1816, “The Round Table”
No. 47]
On the Catalogue Raisonné of the British Institution
[10 Nov 1816, “Literary Notices”, considerable variations; CA]
The same Subject continued [10 & 17 Nov 1816,
“Literary Notices”, considerable variations; CA; see also vol. 9]
On Poetical Versatility [22 Dec 1816, The Examiner, “Illustrations of the
Times”, fragment; PE, see vol. 3]
On Actors and Acting [5 Jan 1817, based on “The Round
Table” No. 48]
On the Same [5 Jan 1817, based on “The Round Table”
No. 48; 1st par. based on criticism of Kean’s Sir Giles Overreach,
see vol. 8]
Why the Arts are not Progressive? – A Fragment [11
& 15 Jan 1814, Morning Chronicle; 11 Sep 1814, The Champion, “Fine Arts. Whether they
are promoted by Academies and Public Institutions”; used in “Fine Arts”, Encyclopaedia Britannica; see vol. 9]
Characters of Shakespear’s
Plays
[1817, 1st edn.; 1818, 2nd
edn., several alterations; 1818, pirate American edition (Boston
Bibliographical Note
Preface
Cymbeline
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
Othello
Timon of Athens
Coriolanus
Troilus and Cressida
Hamlet
The Tempest
The Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Lear
Richard II
Henry IV. in Two Parts
Henry V.
Henry VI. in Three Parts
Richard III.
Henry VIII
King John
Twelfth Night or, What You Will
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merchant of Venice
The Winter's Tale
All's Well that Ends Well
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Much Ado
As You Like It
The Taming of the Shrew
Measure for Measure
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The Comedy of Errors
Doubtful Plays of Shakespear
Poems and Sonnets
A Letter to William Gifford,
Esq.
[1819, 1st edn.; 1820, 2nd
edn., unsold copies of the 1st with a new title page.]
Notes
Memoirs of the Late Thomas
Holcroft
[1816, 1st edn., edited and partly written
by WH]
Bibliographical Note
Advertisement [Jan 1810]
Liber Amoris, or The New
Pygmalion
[1823, 1st edn.]
Bibliographical Note
Part I
The Picture
The Invitation
The Message
The Flageolet
The Confession
The Quarrel
The Reconciliation
Letters to the same
To the same
Written in a Blank Leaf of Endymion
A Proposal of Love (Given to her in our early
acquaintance)
Part II
Letters to C. P---, Esq.
Letters II - VIII
To Edinburgh
A Thought
Another
Another
Letters IX - XI
To S. L.
Letter XII. To C. P. --
Unaltered Love
Perfect Love
From C. P., Esq.
Letter XIII
Letter the Last
Part III
Addressed to J. S. K---
To the same (in continuation)
To the same (in conclusion)
Characteristics: in the
manner of Rochefoucauld’s maxims
[1823, 1st edn., anonymous; 1837, 2nd
edn., “By William Hazlitt”, ed. R. H. Horne]
Bibliographical Note
Preface
Characteristics
Notes
Free Thoughts on Public
Affairs:
In a Letter Addressed to a
Member of the Old Opposition
[1806, 1st edn., self-published pamphlet;
1885, Bohn’s Library, ed. WH’s grandson, reprints the author’s own copy.]
Political Essays
[1819, 1st edn.; 1822, 2nd edn.,
probably a mere re-issue; all essays first appeared in The Morning Chronicle unless otherwise noted]
Bibliographical Note
Dedication
Preface
The Marquis Wellesley
Mr. Southey, Poet Laureat [18 Sep 1813]
Mr. Southey's New Year's Ode [8 Jan 1814]
Dottrel-catching [27 Jan 1814]
The Bourbons and Buonaparte [6 Dec 1813]
Vetus [19 Nov 1813]
On the Courier and Times Newspapers [21 Jan 1814]
Illustrations of Vetus [10 & 16 Dec 1813 and 3
& 5 Jan 1814]
On the late War [3 Apr 1814, The Champion]
Prince Maurice’s Parrot [18 Sep 1814, The Champion;
10 Jul 1814, The Examiner]
Whether the Friends of Freedom can entertain any
sanguine hopes of the Favourable Results of the ensuing Congress [23 Oct 1814, The Champion]
The Lay of the Laureate [7 Jul 1816, The Examiner]
Mr. Owen’s ‘New View of Society,’ &c. [4 Aug
1816, The Examiner]
Speeches of Charles C. Western, Esq. M.P. and Henry
Brougham, Esq. M.P. [7 Mar, 9 Apr & 18 Aug 1816, The Examiner]
Mr. Coleridge’s Lay Sermon [8 Sep 1816, The Examiner; Cf. SA, “Coleridge”]
- - - - - - - - - Statesman's Manual [29 Dec 1816, The Examiner]
- - - - - - - - - Lay Sermon [12 Jan 1817, The Examiner; the germ of “My First
Acquaintance with Poets”, see LR]
Bonaparte and Muller [15 Dec 1816, The Examiner]
Illustrations of the Times Newspaper [15 & 22 Dec
1816 & 12 Jan 1817, The Examiner]
Mr. Macirone’s Interesting
Facts relating to the Fall and Death of Joachim Murat, King of Naples
Wat Tyler and the Quarterly Review [9 Mar 1817, The Examiner]
The Courier and ‘The Wat Tyler’ [30 Mar 1817, The Examiner]
Mr. Southey’s Letter to William Smith, Esq. [4, 11
& 18 May 1817, The Examiner]
On the Spy-System [30 Jun & 15 Jul 1817]
On the Treatment of the State Prisoners [17 July 1817]
The Opposition and the Courier [19 July 1817]
On the Effects of War and Taxes [13 Aug 1817]
Character of Mr. Burke [Aug 1817, Edinburgh Review; 5
Oct 1817, The Champion, “Coleridge’s
Literary Life”]
On Court Influence [3 & 10 Jan 1818, The Yellow Dwarf]
On the Clerical Character [24, 31 Jan & 7 Feb
1818, The Yellow Dwarf]
What is the People? [7 & 14 Mar 1818, The Yellow Dwarf]
On the Regal Character [16 May 1818, The Yellow Dwarf]
The Fudge Family in Paris
Character of Lord Chatham [1807, EBS]
- - - - - - of Mr. Burke, 1807 [EBS]
- - - - - - of Mr. Fox, 1807 [EBS, revised]
- - - - - - of Mr. Pitt, 1806 [FTPA, EBS, RT, W]
‘Pitt and Buonaparte’ [19 Mar 1800, Morning Post]
An Examination of Mr. Malthus’s Doctrines [4 Apr
1818, The Yellow Dwarf; Cf. ARM & SA]
On the Originality of Mr. Malthus’s Essay [1807, ARM,
Letter II]
On the Principles of Population as affecting the
Schemes of Utopian Improvement [1807, ARM, Letter III]
On the Application of Mr. Malthus’s Principle to the
Poor Laws [????]
Queries relating to the Essay on Population [29 Oct
1815, The Examiner, “The Round Table”]
Advertisement, etc., from The Eloquence of the British Senate
[1807, 1st edn., 2 vols., ed. WH]
Advertisement
Biographical and Critical Notes
Notes
A Reply to the Essay on
Population by the Rev. T. R. Malthus
[1807, 1st edn., anonymous; first three letters
appeared in Political Register]
Advertisement
Letter I: Introductory [14 Mar 1807]
Letter II: On the Originality of Mr. Malthus’s
Principal Argument [16 May 1807]
Letter III: On the
Principle of Population as Affecting the Schemes of Utopian Improvement [23 May
1807]
Letter IV: On the General Tendency of Population to
Excess
Letter V: Whether Vice and
Misery are Necessary Consequences of, and the Only Checks to, the Principle of
Population
Extracts from the Essay on
Population, with a Commentary, and Notes
The Spirit of the Age
[1825, 1st edn., anonymous; 1825, 2nd
edn. (reprinted here), different order, some revisions to “Coleridge”, essay on
“Cobbett” added; 1825, Paris edn., an essay on Canning added; 1858, 3rd
edn., ed. WH’s son, includes “Cobbett and “Canning”, different order; 1886, 4th
edn., ed. WH’s grandson, restores the order of the 2nd edn., adds
“Canning”, some revisions of the text based on mss. and autograph notes]
Bibliographical Note
Jeremy Bentham [1824, New Monthly Magazine, vol. X]
William Godwin
Mr. Coleridge
Rev. Mr. Irving [1824, New Monthly Magazine, vol. X]
The late Mr. Horne Tooke
Sir Walter Scott [1824, New Monthly Magazine, vol. X; Cf. PS, 2, XII]
Lord Byron
Mr. Southey
Mr. Wordsworth
Sir James Mackintosh
Mr. Malthus
Mr. Gifford
Mr. Jeffrey
Mr. Brougham – Sir F. Burdett
Lord Eldon – Mr. Wilberforce [1824, New Monthly Magazine, vol. XI]
Mr. Cobbett [1821, TT, 1]
Mr. Campbell – Mr. Crabbe
Mr. T. Moore – Mr. Leigh Hunt
Elia – Geoffrey Crayon
Preface to an abridgement of
Abraham Tucker’s Light of Nature Pursued
[1807, 1st edn., originally in 7 vols.]
Bibliographical Note
Preface from A New and Improved Grammar of the English
Tongue
[1810, 1st edn.]
Bibliographical Note
Notes
Lectures on the English
Poets
[1818, 1st edn.; 1819, 2nd
edn., reprinted here]
Bibliographical Note
Lecture II. On Chaucer and Spenser
Lecture III. On Shakspeare and Milton
Lecture IV. On Dryden and Pope
Lecture V. On Thomson and Cowper
Lecture VI. On Swift, Young, Gray, Collins, etc.
Lecture VII. On Burns, and the Old English Ballads
Lecture VIII. On the Living Poets
Lectures on the Dramatic
Literature of the Age of Elizabeth
[1820, 1st edn.; 1821, 2nd
edn., reprinted here]
Bibliographical Note
Advertisement
Lecture
II. On the Dramatic Writers contemporary with Shakespear, Lyly, Marlow,
Heywood, Middleton, and Rowley
Lecture
III. On Marston, Chapman, Deckar, and Webster
Lecture
IV. On Beaumont and Fletcher, Ben Jonson, Ford, and Massinger
Lecture V.
On single Plays, Poems, &c., the Four P’s, the Return from Parnassus , Gammer Gurton’s Needle, and other Works
Lecture
VI. On Miscellaneous Poems, F. Beaumont, P. Fletcher, Drayton, Daniel, &c.,
Sir P. Sidney’s Arcadia
Lecture
VII. Character of Lord Bacon's Works – compared as to style with Sir Thomas
Brown and Jeremy Taylor
Lecture
VIII. On the Spirit of Ancient and Modern Literature – on the German Drama,
contrasted with that of the Age of Elizabeth
Preface and Critical List of
Authors from Select British Poets
[1824, 1st edn., ed. WH, used as a
copy-text; 1825, 2nd edn., some poems omitted due to copyright
hassle]
Preface
A Critical List of Authors Contained in This Volume
Notes
Table Talk; or, Original
Essays on Men and Manners
[1821-22, 1st edn., 2 vols.; 1824, 2nd
edn., 2 vols., reprinted here; 1825, Paris edn., 2 vols., some essays omitted,
others added; 1845, 3rd edn., 2 vols., ed. WH’s son, some essays
omitted, altered order; 1857-61, 4th edn., reprint of the 1st;
1869, 5th edn., 1 vol., ed. WH’s grandson, text and order the first
two edns. restored, but the essays are divided into three series (fixed in the
1891 edn.); 1878, “New Edition”,
ed. WH’s grandson, gives some interesting, though minor, variations between the
manuscripts and the printed versions of the essays marked with asterisk below; all
essays first published here unless otherwise noted]
Bibliographical Note
Essay
I. On the Pleasure of Painting [Dec 1820, London
Essay II. The same Subject
continued [Dec 1820, London Magazine,
“Table Talk” No. 5]
Essay III. On the Past and Future
Essay IV. On Genius and Common Sense
Essay V. The same Subject continued
Essay VI. Character of Cobbett [repr. in SA, 2nd
edn.]
Essay VII. On People with one Idea
Essay VIII. On the Ignorance of the
Learned [Jul 1818, New Scots
Magazine]
Essay IX. The Indian Jugglers
Essay X. On Living to one’s-self
Essay XI. On Thought and Action
Essay XII. On Will-making
Essay XIII. On certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua
Reynolds's Discourses
Essay XIV. The same Subject continued [30 Oct, 6 & 27
Nov, 4 & 25 Dec 1814 and 8 Jan 1815, The Champion]
Essay XV. On Paradox and Common-place
Essay XVI. On Vulgarity and Affectation
Essay XVII.
On a Landscape of Nicholas Poussin [Aug 1821, London
Essay XVIII. On Milton
*Essay XIX. On going a
Journey [1822, New Monthly Magazine, vol. IV, “Table Talk” No. 1]
*Essay XX. On Coffee-house Politicians
Essay XXI. On the Aristocracy of Letters
Essay XXII. On Criticism
Essay XXIII. On great and
little Things [1822, New Monthly Magazine,
vol. IV, “Table Talk” No. 11]
*Essay XXIV. On familiar Style
Essay XXV. On Effeminacy of Character
Essay XXVI. Why distant Objects please
*Essay XXVII. On Corporate Bodies
Essay XXVIII. Whether Actors ought to sit in the
Boxes
Essay XXIX. On the Disadvantages of intellectual
Superiority
Essay XXX. On Patronage and Puffing
Essay XXXI. On the Knowledge of Character
Essay XXXII. On the Picturesque and Ideal
Essay XXXIII. On the Fear of Death
Mr. Northcote’s
Conversations
[1830, 1st edn., reprinted here; first
appeared in New Monthly Magazine,
1826-27, under the collective title “Boswell Redivivus”; augmented and revised
in book form]
Bibliographical Note
Notes
The Plain Speaker
[1826, 1st edn., 2 vols., anonymous,
essays numbered separately by volume, “On the Qualifications Necessary to
Success in Life” is Essay I of vol. 2; 1851, ed. WH’s son, one essay omitted;
all essays first published here unless otherwise noted]
Bibliographical Note
Essay I. On the Prose-Style of Poets
Essay II. On Dreams
Essay III. On the Conversation of Authors [20 Sep
1820, London
Essay IV. The same Subject continued
Essay V. On Reason and Imagination
Essay VI. On Application to Study [1823, New Monthly Magazine, “Table Talk” No.
10]
Essay VII. On Londoners and Country People [1823, New Monthly Magazine, “Table Talk” No.
7]
Essay VIII. On the Spirit of Obligations [1824, New Monthly Magazine, “Table Talk” No.
11]
Essay IX. On the Old Age of Artists [1823, New Monthly Magazine, “Table Talk” No.
8]
Essay X. On Envy (A Dialogue)
Essay XI On Sitting for one's Picture [1823, New Monthly Magazine, “Table Talk” No.
9]
Essay XII. Whether Genius is conscious of its Powers?
Essay XIII. On the Pleasure of Hating
Essay XIV. On Dr. Spurzheim's Theory
Essay XV. On Egotism
Essay XVI. Hot and Cold
Essay XVII. The New School of Reform
Essay XVIII. On the Qualifications necessary to
Success in Life [Jun 1820, London Magazine, “Table Talk” No. 1]
Essay XIX. On the Look of a Gentleman [Jan 1821, London
Essay XX. On Reading Old Books [Feb 1821, London
Essay XXI. On Personal Character [Mar 1821, London
Essay XXII. On People of Sense [Apr 1821, London
Essay XXIII. On Antiquity [May 1821, London
Essay XXIV. On the Difference between Writing and
Speaking [Jul 1820, London
Essay XXV. On a Portrait of an English Lady, by
Vandyke
Essay XXVI. On Novelty and Familiarity [1825, New Monthly Magazine, revised]
Essay XXVII. On Old English Writers and Speakers
[1825, New Monthly Magazine, revised]
Essay XXVIII. Madame Pasta and Mademoiselle Mars
[1825, New Monthly Magazine]
Essay XXIX. Sir Walter Scott, Racine, and Shakespear
Essay XXX. On Depth and Superficiality
Essay XXXI. On Respectable People
Essay XXXII. On Jealousy and Spleen of Party
Essay on the Principle of
Human Action
[1805, 1st edn., anonymous, reprinted
here; 1836, 2nd edn., ed. WH’s son, “considerably improved” from
marginal corrections in the author’s copy]
Bibliographical Note
An Argument in Defence of the Natural
Disinterestedness of the Human Mind
Remarks on the Systems of Hartley and Helvetius
Notes
Lectures on the English
Comic Writers
[1819, 1st edn., reprinted here; 1841, 3rd
edn., ed. WH’s son, some interpolations; 1869, Bohn’s Library, ed. WH’s
grandson, reprint of the 1st edn.]
Bibliographical Note
Lecture II. On Shakspeare and Ben Jonson
Lecture III. On Cowley, Butler
Lecture IV. On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar
Lecture V. On the Periodical Essayists
Lecture VI. On the English Novelists [Feb 1815, Edinburgh
Lecture VII. On the Works of Hogarth. On the Grand
and Familiar Style of Painting [5 & 19 Jun 1814, The Examiner; RT; see vol. 1]
Lecture VIII. On the Comic Writers of the last
Century
[based on 20 Aug 1815, The Examiner;
RT; see vol. 1]
A View of the English Stage,
or A Series of Dramatic Criticisms
[1818, 1st edn., reprinted here, reissued in
1821 with a new half-title; 1851, 2nd edn., ed. WH’s son, abridged]
Bibliographical Note
Preface [24 Apr 1818, Morning
Chronicle]
Mr. Kean’s Shylock [27 Jan & 2 Feb 1814, Morning Chronicle]
Mr. Kean’s Richard [15 Feb 1814, Morning Chronicle]
Mr. Kean’s Hamlet [14 Mar 1814, Morning Chronicle]
Mr. Kean’s Othello [6 May 1814, Morning Chronicle]
Mr. Kean’s Iago [9 May 1814, Morning Chronicle]
Artaxerxes [18 Oct 1913, Morning
Chronicle]
The Beggar’s Opera [23 Oct 1813, Morning Chronicle]
Richard Coeur de Lion [27 May 1814, Morning Chronicle]
Didone Abandonnata [14 Aug 1814, The Champion]
Miss O’Neill’s Juliet [16 Oct, 1814, The Champion]
Mr. Kean’s Richard [9 Oct 1814, The Champion]
Mr. Kean’s Macbeth [13 Nov 1814, The Champion]
Mr. Kean’s Romeo [8 Jan 1815, The Champion]
Mr. Kean’s Iago [24 Jul 1814, The Examiner]
Mr. Kean’s Iago (concluded) [7 Aug 1814, The Examiner]
Mr. Kean’s Richard II [19 Mar 1815, The Examiner]
The Unknown Guest [2 Apr 1815, The Examiner]
Mr. Kean’s Zanga [28 May 1815, The Examiner]
Mr. Bannister’s Farewell [4 Jun 1815, The Examiner]
Comus [11 Jun 1815, The
Examiner]
Mr. Kean’s Leon
The Tempest [23 Jul 1815, The Examiner]
My Wife! What Wife? [30 Jul 1815, The Examiner]
Mr. Harley’s Fidget [6 Aug 1815, The Examiner]
Living in London
The King’s Proxy [27 Aug 1815, The Examiner]
The Maid and the Magpie [3 Sep 1815, The Examiner]
The Hypocrite [17 Sep 1815, The Examiner]
Mr. Edwards’s Richard III [1 Oct 1815, The Examiner]
Lovers’ Vows [8 Oct 1815, The Examiner]
The School for Scandal [15 Oct 1815, The Examiner]
Mrs. Alsop’s Rosalind [22 Oct 1815, The Examiner]
John Du Bart [29 Oct 1815, The Examiner]
The Beggar’s Opera [6 Nov 1815, The Examiner]
Miss O’Neill’s Elwina [19 Nov 1815, The Examiner]
Where to find a Friend [26 Nov 1815, The Examiner]
Miss O’Neill’s Belvidera [10 Dec 1815, The Examiner]
The Merchant of Bruges
Smiles and Tears [24 Dec 1815, The Examiner]
George Barnwell [31 Dec 1815, The Examiner]
The Busy Body [7 Jan 1816, The Examiner]
A New Way to Pay Old Debts [14 Jan 1816, The Examiner]
The Midsummer Night’s Dream [21 Jan 1816, The Examiner]
Love for Love [28 Jan 1816, The Examiner]
The Anglade Family [4 Feb 1816, The Examiner]
Measure for Measure [11 Feb 1816, The Examiner]
Mr. Kean’s Sir Giles Overreach [18 Feb 1816, The Examiner]
The Recruiting Officer [3 Mar 1816, The Examiner]
The Fair Penitent [10 Mar 1816, The Examiner]
The Duke of Milan
Miss O’Neill’s Lady Teazle [24 Mar 1816, The Examiner]
Mr. Kean [31 Mar 1816, The
Examiner]
Mr. Kean’s Shylock [7 Apr 1816, The Examiner]
The Oratorios [14 Apr 1816, The Examiner]
Richard III [21 Apr 1816, The Examiner]
Romeo and Juliet [28 Apr 1816, The Examiner]
Mr. Kemble’s Sir Giles Overreach [5 May 1816, The Examiner]
Bertram [19 May 1816, The
Examiner]
Every Man in His Humour [9 Jun 1816, The Examiner]
Mrs. Siddons [16 Jun 1816, The Examiner]
New English Opera House [23 Jun 1816, The Examiner]
The Jealous Wife [30 Jun 1816, The Examiner]
The Man of the World [7 Jul 1816, The Examiner]
Miss Merry’s Mandane [21 Jul 1816, The Examiner]
Exit by Mistake [28 Jul 1816, The Examiner]
The Italian Opera [4 Aug 1816, The Examiner]
Old Customs [11 Aug 1816, The Examiner]
My Landlady’s Night-Gown [18 Aug 1816, The Examiner]
Two Worlds [8 Sep 1816, The
Examiner]
The Wonder [15 Sep 1816, The
Examiner]
The Distressed Mother [22 Sep 1816, The Examiner]
Miss Boyle’s Rosalind [6 Oct 1816, The Examiner]
Mr. Macready’s Othello [13 Oct 1816, The Examiner]
Theatrical Debuts [20 Oct 1816, The Examiner]
Mr. Kemble’s Cato [27 Oct 1816, The Examiner]
The Iron Chest [1 Dec 1816, The Examiner]
Mr. Kemble’s King John [8 Dec 1816, The Examiner]
Coriolanus [15 Dec 1816, The
Examiner]
The Man of the World [29 Dec 1816, The Examiner]
The Humorous Lieutenant [26 Jan 1816, The Examiner]
Two New Ballets [9 Feb 1817, The Examiner]
Mr. Booth’s Duke of Gloster [16 Feb 1817, The Examiner]
Mr. Booth’s Iago [23 Feb 1817, The Examiner]
Mr. Booth’s Richard [2 Mar 1817, The Examiner]
Double Gallant [13 Apr 1817, The Examiner]
Don Juan [20 Apr 1817, The
Examiner]
The Conquest of Taranto
The Touch-Stone [11 May 1817, The Examiner]
The Libertine [25 May 1817, The Examiner]
Barbarossa [1 Jun 1817, The
Examiner]
Mrs. Siddons’s Lady Macbeth [8 Jun 1817, The Examiner]
Mr. Maywood’s Shylock [26 Sep 1817, The Times]
Mr. Kemble’s Retirement [25 Jun 1817, The Times]
Dramatic Essays from The London
[Many of these essays were included in the 2nd
edn. of AVES, but heavily cut and re-arranged; first publication of their original form; part of essay IV and the whole of essay X
are “plainly the work of another hand” and therefore omitted]
No. I [Jan 1820]
No. II. [Feb 1820]
No. III. [Mar 1820]
No. IV. [Apr 1820]
No. V. [May 1820]
No. VI. [Jun 1820]
No. VII. [Jul 1820]
No. VIII. [Aug 1820]
No. IX. [Sep 1820]
No. XI. [Dec 1820]
Appendix
II. On Mr. Kean’s Iago [11 Sep 1814, The Examiner, WH’s rejoinder to the
dramatic critic of the magazine as regards a little controversy about the
character of Iago]
Notes
Sketches of the Principal
Picture-Galleries in England
[1824, 1st edn.; first published in London Magazine unless otherwise noted]
Mr. Angerstein’s Collection [Dec 1822]
Dulwich Gallery [Jan 1823]
The Marquis of Stafford’s Gallery [Feb 1823]
Pictures at Windsor Castle
Pictures at Hampton
Court
Lord Grosvenor’s Collection [Jul 1823]
Pictures at Wilton
Pictures at Burleigh House [1822, New Monthly
Magazine, “Table Talk” No. 4]
Pictures at Oxford
Appendix: Criticism on Marriage a-la-Mode [5 & 19 Jun
1814, The Examiner; RT; LECW, VII]
Notes of a Journey through France and Italy
[1826, 1st edn., reprinted here; all chapters originally
appeared in Morning Chronicle, 14 Sep 1824 to 16 Nov 1825]
Bibliographical Note
Advertisement
Chapter II. Normandy Rouen
Chapter III. The Road from Rouen
to Paris Evreux
Chapter IV. The Louvre.
Chapter V. Gravity of the French. Their Behaviour at the
Theatre. Account of going to a Play. Minute attention paid to the Arts and
Sciences in France
Chapter VI. Dialogue on the Exhibition of Modern French Pictures.
Chapter VII. The Luxembourg Gallery.
Chapter VIII. National Antipathies. Cemetery of Père
Chapter IX. Mademoiselle Mars. The Théatre Français. Moliere's Misanthrope
and Tartuffe. Admirable manner of casting a Play in Paris
Chapter X. Description of Paris
Chapter XI. French Sculpture. Note on the Elgin
Chapter XII. The French Opera. Dido and Aeneas. Madame Le Gallois
in the Ballet. Italian Opera or Salle Louvois. Mombelli and Pellegrini in the
Gazza Ladra. Allusion to Brunet.
Chapter XIII. Leave Paris for Lyons Inn
there. A French Diligence. Moulins. Palisseau. The Bourbonnois. Descent into
Tarare. Meeting with a young Englishman there. Arrival at Lyons
Chapter XIV. Set out for Turin by
Way of Mont Cenis . The Cheats of Scapin. The
Diligence. Pont Beau Voisin, the frontier Town of the King of Sardinia's Dominions.
Have to pass the Custom House. My Box of Books leaded. A Note which is little
to the Purpose. First View of the Alps . The
Grand Chartreuse. Cavern of La Grotte. Chambery Mount Cenis Susa
Chapter XV. Turin Italy Florence Parma Bologna Academy of Painting Italy
Chapter XVI. Road to Florence Apennines . Covigliaijo. La Maschere.
Approach to and Description of Florence Italy
Chapter XVII. The public Gallery. Antique Busts. The Venus. Raphael's
Fornarina. The Perseus of Benvenuto Cellini. John of Bologna
Chapter XVIII. Sienna. Radicofani. Aquapendente. Description of the
Inn there. San Lorenzo .
Monte-Fiascone. Lake
of Bolsena Rome
Chapter XIX. Rome Vatican Temple of Vesta
Chapter XX. Character of
the English.
Chapter XXI. Return to Florence Terni Tivoli Perugia
Chapter XXII. Journey to Venice Inn . Ferrara Rovigo Padua Venice
Chapter XXIII. Palaces at Venice
Chapter XXIV. Journeyto Milan. Verona Lake
of T Milan
Chapter XXV. The passage over the Simplon. Inn
at Brigg. Valley of the Simplon. Sion. Bex. Vevey.
Chapter XXVI. Excursion to Chamouni. Mont Geneva Lausanne
Chapter XXVII. Return down the Rhine through Holland
Miscellaneous Essays on the
Fine Arts
Bibliographical Note
On Haydon's Solomon [4 & 5 May 1814, Morning Chronicle]
The Catalogue Raisonné of the British Institution [3 Nov 1816, The Examiner, “Literary Notices”; Cf.
RT; see also vol. 1]
West's Picture of Death on the Pale Horse [Dec 1817, Edinburgh
On Williams's Views in Greece
[May 1822, London
On the Elgin Marbles [Feb & May 1822, London
Magazine, based on “Literary Notices”, 30 Jun 1816, The Examiner; see also Appendix]
Fonthill Abbey [Nov 1822, London
Judging of Pictures [2 Aug 1823, Literary
Examiner]
The Vatican
English Students at Rome
Fine Arts [1824, Encyclopaedia
Britannica, supplement to the 4th, 5th and 6th
edns., 1824, 6 vols.; Cf. The Champion, 28 Aug, 11 Sep and 2 Oct 1814, “Fine
Arts…”; see vol. 1]
James Barry [1824, Encyclopaedia Britannica, ibid.]
Originality [3 Jan 1830, The Atlas, “Specimens of a Dictionary of Definitions”]
The Ideal [10 Jan 1830, The Atlas, “Specimens of a Dictionary of Definitions”]
Notes
Appendix
I. Fragments on Art (continued): Why the Arts are
not Progressive [15 Jan 1814,
Morning Chronicle, omitted passages from RT; see vol. 1]
II. Report from the Select Committee of the House of
Commons on the Elgin Murray
Contributions to the Edinburgh
[unless otherwise noted, all pieces previously
uncollected]
Dunlop’s History of Fiction [Nov 1814]
Standard Novels and Romances [Feb 1815]
Sismondi's Literature of the South [Jun 1815]
Schlegel on the Drama [Feb 1816]
Coleridge’s Lay Sermon [Dec 1816; disputed
authorship; overwhelmingly strong internal evidence]
Coleridge’s Literary Life [Aug 1817]
Letters of Horace Walpole [Dec 1818]
Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds [Aug 1820; CA, EFA]
The Periodical Press [May 1823]
Landor’s Imaginary Conversations [Mar 1824]
Shelley’s Posthumous Poems [Jul 1824]
Lady Morgan’s Life of Salvator [Jul 1824]
American Literature – Dr. Channing [Oct 1829]
Flaxman’s Letters on Sculpture [Oct 1829]
Mr. Godwin [Apr 1830]
Notes
- Hunt’s Story of Rimini [Jun 1816, uncertain but
probable authorship]
- Coleridge’s Christabel [Sep 1816, uncertain but
probable authorship]
[*previously uncollected pieces]
On Abstract Ideas [EPHA, 1836, 2nd edn.]
Fragments of Lectures on
Philosophy (1812) [repr.
from LR]
On the Writings of Hobbes
On Liberty
On Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding
On Tooke’s ‘Diversions of Purley’
On Self-Love
Contributions to The Morning Chronicle
*Madame de Staëls Account of German Philosophy and
Literature [3 Feb 1814]
*The Same Subject continued [17 Feb 1814]
*The Same Subject continued [3 Mar 1814]
*The Same Subject continued (On Abstraction) [8 Apr
1814]
*Fine Arts. British Institution [5 Feb 1814]
*The Stage [24 Feb 1814; CSP, “The Stage”]
*Fine Arts (The Louvre) [24 Mar 1814]
Contributions to The Champion
*Wilson
*On Gainsborough’s Pictures [31 Jul 1814]
*Mr. Kemble’s Penruddock [20 Nov 1814]
*Introduction to an Account of Sir Joshua Reynolds’s
Discourses [27 Nov 1814]
*On Genius and Originality [4 Dec 1814]
*On the Imitation of Nature [25 Dec 1814]
*On the Ideal [8 Jan 1815]
*L. Buonaparte’s Charlemagne; I’Église Délivrée [18
Dec 1814]
*The Same Subject continued [25 Dec 1814]
*L. Buonaparte’s Collection of Pictures [22
Jan 1815]
*British Institution [5 Feb 1815]
*The Same Subject continued [12 Feb 1815]
*The Same Subject continued [19 Feb 1815]
*On Mr. Wilkie’s Pictures [5 Mar 1815]
Contributions to The Examiner
*On Rochefoucault's Maxims [23 Oct 1814]
On the Predominant
Principles and Excitements of the Human Mind [26 Feb 1815; W: “Mind and Motive”]
The Love of Power or Action
as Main a Principle in the Human Mind as
Sensibility to Pleasure or Pain [9 Apr 1815; W: “Mind and Motive”]
Essay on Manners [3 Sep 1815; W: “Matter and Manner”]
*Kean's Bajazet, and ‘The Country Girl’ [12 Nov 1815]
*Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity [10 Dec 1815]
*Parallel Passages in various Poets [24 Dec 1815]
*Mr. Locke a great Plagiarist [25 Feb 1816]
*Shakespear’s Female Characters [28 Jul 1816; used in
CSP, “Othello” & “Cymbeline”]
*Miss O'Neill's Widow Cheerly [12 Jan 1817]
*Penelope and The Dansomanie [19 Jan 1817]
*Oroonoko [26 Jan 1817]
*’The Pannel’ and ‘The Ravens’ [2 Feb 1817]
*John Gilpin [4 May 1817]
*Don Giovanni and Kean's Eustace de St. Pierre [18
May 1817]
*Character of the Country People [18 Jul 1819; attr.
to WH on internal evidence]
*Mr. Macready's Macbeth [25 Jun 1820]
*Guy Faux [11 Nov 1821]
*The Same Subject continued [18 Nov 1821]
*The Same Subject concluded [25 Nov 1821]
Character of Mr. Canning [11 Jul 1824; SA, “Paris”
and subsequent edns.]
*The Dandy School [18 Nov 1827]
*Actors and the Public [16 Mar 1828; strong internal
evidence of authorship; same for next 11 pieces]
*French Plays [23 Mar 1828]
*French Plays (continued) [30 Mar 1828]
*The Theatres and Passion Week [6 Apr 1828]
*Charles Kean [13 Apr 1828]
*Some of the Old Actors [27 Apr 1828]
*The Company at the Opera [4 May 1828]
*The Beggar's Opera [11 May 1828]
*The Taming of the Shrew and L'Avare [18 May 1828]
*Mrs. Siddons [25 May 1828]
*The Three Quarters, etc. [1 Jun 1828]
*Mr. Kean [15 Jun 1828]
Contributions to The Times [internal evidence of WH’s authorship]
*Munden's Sir Peter Teazle [8 Sep 1817]
*Young's Hamlet [9 Sep 1817]
*Dowton in The Hypocrite [19 Sep 1817]
*Miss Brunton’s Rosalind [20 Sep 1817]
*Maywood
*Kean’s Richard III [7 Oct 1817]
*The Wonder [9 Oct 1817]
*Venice
*She Stoops to Conquer [15 Oct 1817]
*Kean’s Macbeth [21 Oct 1817]
*Kean’s Othello [27 Oct 1817]
*Kean and Miss O’Neill [2 Dec 1817]
*The Honey Moon [3 Dec 1817]
*Mr. Kean [16 Dec 1817]
*King John [18 Dec 1817]
Contributions to The Yellow Dwarf
*The Press – Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworth, and
Bentham [3 Jan 1818]
*Mr. Coleridge's Lectures [21 Feb 1818]
*Childe Harold's Pilgrimage [2 May 1818]
The Opera [23 May 1818]
Contributions to The Edinburgh (New Scots) Magazine
*On the Question whether Pope was a Poet [Feb 1818]
*On Respectable People [Aug 1818; the editors are
quite wrong to mark this essay with an asterisk: it is the same piece as the
one of the same title in PS; see vol. 7]
On Fashion [Sep 1818; SE, omissions and variations]
On Nicknames [Sep 1818; SE, omissions and variations]
Thoughts on Taste [Oct 1818; SE, omissions and
variations]
The Same Subject continued [July 1819; SE, omissions
and variations]
The Same Subject continued [not published in the
Edinburgh Magazine; repr. from SE]
Contributions to The London
*On the Present
State
*Haydon’s ‘Christ’s Agony in the Garden’ [May 1821]
*Pope, Lord Byron, and Mr. Bowles [Jun 1821]
On Consistency of Opinion [Nov 1821; W: some
omissions]
On the Spirit of Partisanship [Dec 1821; SE]
*‘The Pirate’ [Jan 1822; internal evidence of WH’s
authorship]
*‘Peveril of the Peak’ [Feb 1823]
Contributions to The Literary Examiner
Common Places [Sep 6 & 13, Oct 11 & 25, Nov
8, 15, 22 & 29, Dec 13 1823; RT, 1871, ed. WH’s grandson]
Notes
Essays Not Certainly
Hazlitt’s, and Fragments
Character of Mr. Wordsworth's New Poem, The Excursion
[The Examiner; RT: omissions and
variations]
The Duke D'Enghien [Sep 24, Oct 8, Nov 19, Dec 10, The Examiner]
Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’ [2 Jun 1816, The Examiner]
Sketches of the History of the Good Old Times [6, 13
& 20 Apr, The Examiner]
Historical Illustrations of Shakespeare [Jan &
Sep 1819, Edinburgh
Mr. Crabbe [May 1821, The London Magazine; SA: extended]
[*previously uncollected pieces]
Contributions to The New Monthly Magazine
The Fight [Feb 1822; LR]
Merry England
Of Persons One would Wish to have Seen [Jan 1826; LR,
W]
On the Conversation of Lords [Apr 1826; SE]
On a Sun-dial [Oct 1827; SE: written in Italy
Why the Heroes of Romance are insipid [Nov 1827; SE]
The Shyness of Scholars [Dec 1827; LR]
The Main Chance [Feb 1828; LR, with omissions &
additions (in square brackets)]
Self-Love and Benevolence [Oct 1828; SE, omitted in
the 2nd edn., restored in the 3rd by WH’s grandson]
The Same Subject continued [Dec 1828; see previous
brackets]
*The Free Admission [July 1830]
The Sick Chamber [August 1830; EC]
Footmen [Sep 1830; SE; WH died on 18 Sep 1830]
Contributions to The Monthly Magazine
On the Want of Money [Jan 1827; LR]
On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth [Mar 1827; LR,
W: many omissions & variations]
On Reading New Books [Jul 1827; SE: with omissions]
On Disagreeable People [Aug 1827; SE]
On Means and Ends [Sep 1827; LR, W: many variations]
On Personal Identity [Jan 1828; W: some omissions]
*Aphorisms on Man [Oct, Nov & Dec 1830; Apr, May
& Jun 1831]
A Chapter on Editors [Nov 1830; SE: some omissions]
The Letter Bell [Mar 1831; SE: considerable
omissions; possibly WH’s final essay; mentions the July Revolution of 1830:
latest precise reference in his writings]
Contributions to The Liberal
On the Spirit of Monarchy [1822; LR]
*On the Scotch Character [1822;]
My First Acquaintance with Poets [1823; LR, W]
*Pulpit Oratory: Dr. Chalmers and Mr. Irving [1823]
*Arguing in a Circle [1823]
Contributions to The London
*Queries and Answers [17 Nov 1827]
On Knowledge of the World [1 Dec 1827; SE]
The Same Subject continued [8 Dec 1827; SE]
The Same Subject continued [15 Dec 1827; SE]
On Public Opinion [19 Jan 1828; W]
On the Causes of Popular Opinion [16 Feb 1828; W]
A Farewell to Essay-writing [29 Mar 1828; W:
imperfect form]
*Byron and Wordsworth [5 Apr 1828]
On Cant and Hypocrisy [6 Dec 1828; SE: some omissions]
The Same Subject continued [13 Dec 1828; SE: some
omissions]
Contributions to The Atlas
*Poetry [8 Mar 1829]
*English Grammar [15 Mar 1829]
*Memorabilia of Mr. Coleridge [22 Mar 1829]
*Peter Pindar [5 Apr 1829]
*Logic [12 Apr 1829]
*The Late Mr. Curran [26 Apr 1829]
*The Court Journal – A Dialogue [7 June 1829]
*The Late Dr. Priestley [14 June 1829]
*Sects and Parties [2 Aug 1829]
*Conversations as Good as Real (1) [20 Sep 1829]
*Conversations as Good as Real (2) [1 Nov 1829]
Trifles Light as Air [27 Sep & 4 Oct 1829; RT,
1871, ed. WH’s grandson]
*Common Sense [11 Oct 1829]
*The Spirit of Controversy [31 Jan 1830]
Envy [14 Feb 1830; SE]
On Prejudice [11 Apr 1830; SE]
The Same Subject continued [18 Apr 1830; SE]
The Same Subject continued [SE; apparently not
published in The Atlas]
On Party Spirit [25 Apr 1830; W]
Miscellaneous
Project for a New Theory of Civil and Criminal
Legislation [LR, W (more fully)]
On the Conduct of Life; or, Advice to a School-boy [repr.
from LR]
Belief, whether Voluntary [repr. from LR]
Definition of Wit [repr. from LR]
Personal Politics [repr. from LR]
*The Emancipation of the Jews [The Tatler, Mar 1831]
*On the Punishment of Death [Fraser’s Magazine, Jan 1831, extract from WH’s essay has,
apparently, not survived]
Notes
Addenda to the Notes in Vols. I. – XI.
Index to Titles of Hazlitt's Writings
[VOLUME THIRTEEN:
Index (1906)]
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