This two volume set contains 205 writings attributed to the Romantic essayist William Hazlitt but not included in the standard scholarly edition of his works (published 1930-4). It includes essays on the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge, a defence of Byron and Shelley against charges of immorality, and reviews of some of the greatest actors of the time.

Duncan Wu is Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Wordsworth: An Inner Life (2000), and the editor of Romanticism: An Anthology, a standard text now in its third edition. He is the editor of Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (9 vols., 1998), William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker: Key Essays (1998), and (with Tom Paulin and Uttara Natarajan) Metaphysical Hazlitt: Bicentenary Essays (2005).

• Introduction


• Part I: New Essays and Poems


• Part II: Early Versions of Selected Essays


• Part III: Questionable Attributions


• Appendix I: Hazlitt and The Correspondent


• Appendix II: Hazlitt's copy of The Yellow Dwarf and 'Is there any hope of Reform?'


• Appendix III: Hazlitt's involvement with The White Hat


• Appendix IV: Hazlitt's Opera Reviews for The Atlas, 1827-8


• Appendix V: Attribution Listings for The Morning Chronicle, The Champion, The Times, The Examiner, The London Weekly Review and The Atlas


• Bibliography