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 -- Liber Amoris -- Advertisement -- 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 -- Part II -- Letter to C. P------ , Esq. -- Letter II -- Letter III -- Letter IV (Written in the Winter) -- Letter V -- Letter VI (Written in May) -- Letter VII -- Letter VIII -- To Edinburgh -- A Thought -- Letter IX -- Letter X -- Letter 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) -- The Spirit of the Age -- Jeremy Bentham -- William Godwin -- Mr Coleridge -- Rev. Mr Irving -- The Late Mr Home Tooke -- Sir Walter Scott -- Lord Byron -- Mr Campbell and Mr Crabbe -- Sir James Mackintosh -- Mr Wordsworth -- Mr Malthus -- Mr Gifford -- Mr Jeffrey -- Mr Brougham - Sir Francis Burdett -- Lord Eldon and Mr Wilberforce -- Mr Southey -- Mr T. Moore - Mr Leigh Hunt -- Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon -- appendix i: 'Mr Canning' -- appendix ii: Cancelled passage from the manuscript of 'The Fight' -- appendix hi: Two extracts from Hazlitt's letter to Patmore, 29 or 30 May 1822 -- appendix iv: Contents lists for The Spirit of the Age, Paris and second London editions -- appendix v: 'A Half-length' - a postscript to The Spirit of the Age -- Notes -- Books referred to in the notes to volume 7.