TY - BOOK AU - Hazlitt,William AU - Johnson,R.Brimley TI - Lectures on the English comic writers U1 - 827.7 PY - 1841/// [reprinted 1951] CY - London PB - Oxford university press KW - Hogarth, William, KW - English literature KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - History and criticism KW - 18th century KW - English wit and humor N1 - 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 ER -