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.

Duncan Wu,

List of abbreviations -- Introductory note -- Brief biographical directory of selected personages -- Table Talk 1 -- Volume I -- On the Pleasure of Painting -- The Same Subject Continued -- On the Past and Future -- On Genius and Common Sense -- The Same Subject Continued -- Character of Cobbett -- On People with One Idea -- On the Ignorance of the Learned -- The Indian Jugglers -- On Living to one's-self -- On Thought and Action -- On Will-Making -- On Certain Inconsistencies in Sir Joshua Reynolds's -- Discourses -- The Same Subject Continued -- On Paradox and Common-Place -- On Vulgarity and Affectation -- Volume II -- On a Landscape of Nicolas Poussin -- On Milton's Sonnets -- On Going A Journey -- On Coffee-House Politicians -- On the Aristocracy of Letters -- On Criticism -- On Great and Little Things -- On Familiar Style -- On Effeminacy of Character -- Why Distant Objects Please -- On Corporate Bodies -- Whether Actors Ought to Sit in the Boxes -- On the Disadvantages of Intellectual Superiority -- On Patronage and Puffing -- On the Knowledge of Character -- On the Picturesque and Ideal -- On the Fear of Death -- Notes -- Books referred to in the notes to volume 6.