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The Romantic Critics

Poetry, drama and the imagination in the criticism of the Romantic era.

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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

Characters of Shakespear's Plays is an 1817 book of criticism of Shakespeare's plays, written by early nineteenth century English essayist and literary critic William Hazlitt.

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Lectures on the English Poets

This book collects together lectures on English poetry Hazlitt delivered at London’s Surrey Institution in 1818, ranging from ‘On Poetry in General’, through acknowledged classics such as Chaucer, Spenser and…

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The Four Ages of Poetry

Peacock's mock-history of poetry through ages of iron, gold, silver and brass, first printed in Ollier's Literary Miscellany in 1820.

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