William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.

List of abbreviations -- Introductory notes -- Brief biographical directory of selected personages -- Lectures on the English C omic W -- Lecture I: Introductory - On Wit and Humour -- Lecture II: On Shakespeare and Ben Jonson -- Lecture III: On Cowley, Butler, Suckling, Etherege, See. -- Lecture IV: On Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar -- Lecture V: On the Periodical Essayists -- Lecture VI: On the English Novelists -- Lecture VII: On the Works of Hogarth -- Lecture VIII: On the Comic Writers of the Last Century -- Lectures on the D ramatic Literature of the Age of -- Lecture I: Introductory - General View of the Subject -- Lecture II: On the Dramatic Writers Contemporary with Shakespear -- 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 Sec. -- Lecture VI: On Miscellaneous Poems -- Lecture VII: Character of Lord Bacon's Works -- Lecture VIII: On the Spirit of Ancient and Modern Literature -- A Letter to W illiam Gifford, Esq. -- Notes -- Books referred to in the notes to volume 5.