Lectures on the English comic writers /
by William Hazlitt.
- 3rd ed.
- London : Oxford university press, 1841 [reprinted 1951].
- x, 248 p. ; 18 cm.
Edited by William Hazlitt the younger. xvi p. of advertisements at end.
Contents: Introductory: on wit and humour.--On Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.--On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, &c.--On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar.--On the periodical essayists.--On the English novelists.--On the works of Hogarth.--On the comic writers of the last century
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 --Criticism and interpretation.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700 English literature--History and criticism.--18th century English wit and humor--History and criticism.