Delivered in London in 1818, these eight lectures open with Hazlitt’s famous essay on poetry in general and move through Chaucer and Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton, Dryden and Pope, Thomson and Cowper, Burns and the old ballads, to the poets of his own day, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron among them.
Some of the liveliest criticism in English, from one of its greatest essayists. Download the free EPUB.